YEARS AGO FOR JULY 27

Today is Thursday, July 27, the 208th day of 2017. There are 157 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1866: Cyrus W. Field finishes laying out the first successful underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe.

1921: Canadian researcher Frederick Banting and his assistant, Charles Best, succeed in isolating the hormone insulin at the University of Toronto.

1953: The Korean War armistice is signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.

1960: Vice President Richard M. Nixon is nominated for president on the first ballot at the Republican national convention in Chicago.

1967: President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of urban rioting, the same day black militant H. Rap Brown called violence “as American as cherry pie.”

1974: The House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 to adopt the first of three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon.

1996: Terror strikes the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park, killing one person and injuring 111.

2003: Comedian Bob Hope dies in Toluca Lake, Calif., at age 100.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: A fire of undetermined origin at 406 Martin St., New Castle, Pa., claims the lives of the infant twin daughters of Willard and Vicki Robertson, Brooke and Britnie.

For the first time in recent history, Youngstown sees a significant decline in serious crime, with the FBI reporting a 17-percent reduction in violent crime during the first six months of the year, compared with the same period a year earlier.

Eleven people are taken to Youngstown’s four hospitals after a Western Reserve Transit bus collides with a funeral limousine at Oak and Lane streets.

1977: An abandoned mine shaft claims a swimming pool at the Mineral Ridge home of Eleanor Cheeks, 1450 Prospect St.

As many as 100 men are off work at the Republic Steel Corp.’s Warren plant after a fire knocks out much of the plant’s power. It could be weeks before production, which is 2,800 tons of iron daily, is restored.

Daniel Simon, 24, of Youngstown is fatally injured when the boom of the crane he was operating struck power lines on Route 616, about a half mile north of Route 224.

1967: The Red Cross office in Youngstown, agent for Medicare, paid $9.3 million in hospital claims for 40,609 area cases during the first year of Medicare.

About 400 letters are received for The Vindicator’s “Operation G.I,” only four days after the announcement that theater critic Fred Childress will visit Vietnam, taking greetings to area service men and women.

Nathaniel Lee, president of the local and state NAACP, proposes a nine-step plan for reducing racial tensions during a meeting between Youngstown officials and 100 Negro community leaders.

1942: An airmail letter sent to Capt. John Lyons from Lewistown, Pa., crossed the U.S. to Ireland and was finally rerouted to Lyons at Ft. Benning, Ga., arriving after 109 days.

Mahoning County Sheriff Ralph Elser and 17 deputies launch raids against known Campbell gambling joints, but find most aren’t doing business, having been warned about an impending raid.

Five busloads of selectees from Draft Board No. 10 (Struthers, Lowellville and Poland)leave for physical exams and possible induction at Cleveland.