YEARS AGO FOR JULY 25

Today is Tuesday, July 25, the 206th day of 2017. There are 159 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1593: France’s King Henry IV converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.

1866: Ulysses S. Grant is named general of the Army of the United States.

1917: Nikon Corp. has its beginnings with the merger of three optical manufacturers in Japan.

1946: The United States detonates an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device.

1952: Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

1967: A full-page ad in The Times (of London) calls for the legalization of marijuana.

1975: Themusical “A Chorus Line” opens on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre, beginning a run of 6,137 performances.

1984: Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to walk in space.

2000: A New York-bound Air France Concorde crashes outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board.

2016: On the opening night of the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia, Bernie Sanders robustly embraces his former rival Hillary Clinton as a champion for the same economic causes that enlivened his supporters.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Trumbull County employee layoffs have caused a four-week delay in processing titles for vehicles purchased through a bank or dealer, so the state has authorized deputy registrars in the county to issue second 30-day temporary licenses.

Rollen Smith, a Youngstown native who played for the Cincinnati Bengals and St. Louis Cardinals, urges Volney Rogers football players to avoid the pitfalls of substance abuse.

World Basketball League President John Galetka is facing a challenge to save the league after three of the WBL’s 10 teams fold during the 1992 season.

1977: Bart Starr, Forrest Gregg, Frank Gifford, Gale Sayers and Bill Willis will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton.

A shoplifter confronted at the King’s Department Store on Youngstown-Warren Road in Niles used a knife he had stolen from the store to menace a security guard and escape.

Frank M. “Hank” Cantwell, a nationally ranked tennis player and all-around athlete who lettered in football, basketball and tennis at Rayen School, dies at 62 after a long and valiant fight against cancer, He had undergone 25 operations.

1967: The Boardman Plaza celebrates its 16th birthday with sales and an array of family-friendly attractions.

A 16-year-old custodial helper, Robert Chuey, receives burns and more than 650 students attending summer school at Rayen School are routed as burning foam rubber fills the building with heavy black smoke.

The cellar is all that’s left of the home of A.J. Heald after a tornado struck the home on Route 558 a mile west of East Fairfield.

1942: Rabbi Morris Gordon of New York City will take the pulpit of Anshe Emeth Temple in Youngstown, succeeding Rabbi Nathan Kollin who has taken a position in Richmond, Va.

Leo F. Heller, secretary of the Youngstown Builders Association, withdraws from the Democratic race for state senator from Mahoning and Trumbull counties after taking the job of director of labor relations with the American Shipbuilding Co. of Cleveland.

The Chamber of Commerce special taxation committee opposes a proposal by the city to repave West Federal Street with a “voluntary assessment” plan for financing.