YEARS AGO FOR JULY 29

Today is Saturday, July 29, the 210th day of 2017. There are 155 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1030: The patron saint of Norway, King Olaf II, is killed in battle.

1890: Artist Vincent van Gogh, 37, dies of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

1914: Transcontinental telephone service in the U.S. becomes operational.

1921: Adolf Hitler becomes the leader (“fuehrer”) of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

1957: Jack Paar debuts as host of NBC’s “Tonight Show.”

1967: An accidental rocket launch on the deck of the supercarrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin results in a fire and explosions that kill 134 servicemen.

1981: Britain’s Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer in a glittering ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: In what a Phar-Mor news release called a “restructuring of executive responsibilities,” Michael I. Monus, president of the Youngstown-based retail chain, is given the new title of vice chairman of the board. David Shapiro, CEO of Phar-Mor and Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle, will assume Monus’ responsibilities.

Youngstown and Niles follow the recommendation of the Mahoning Valley Drought Assessment Task Force and drop mandatory restrictions on water use but still call for voluntary efforts to save up to 2 million gallons a day.

Newton Falls voters oust two councilmen in a recall vote: James K. Lang and Terrance Mohan. Their replacements are Rosemary Greathouse and Joseph Hildack Jr.

1977: After several weeks of negotiations with government and industry officials, the Western Reserve Economic Development Agency solicits four major railroads on plans for a Mahoning Valley unit-train that would deliver ore from Lake Erie to Mahoning Valley steel plants.

Police arrest 61 demonstrators as they try to reoccupy the hill at Kent State University where four students were shot to death in 1970. The protesters are opposed to construction of a gymnasium on the site.

Peter Prokop Jr., 17, of Ursuline loses on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff after battling his opponent in a dead-even 18 holes of match play in the 30th USGA National Junior Golf Championship.

1967: Mayor Anthony B. Flask, Police Chief John Terlesky and Harry Meshel, the mayor’s administrative assistant, meet with the “Brothers,” and “Sisters,” organizations of Negro youths, and Ronald Daniels, chairman of Freedom Inc., to discuss accusation of neglect by the city.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Grandmontagne, former Girard residents who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, are honored at a dinner party given by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rees and Mr. and Mrs. James Williams.

Edith J. Shrum and Lynda Palomba of Youngstown pass the state dental hygiene examination.

1942: Vindicator carriers will aid the American Legion phonograph- record salvage drive by collecting records or by notifying the collection committee where they can be picked up.

Isabelle Shane, 21-year-old secretary to the cashier of McDowell National Bank in Sharon, is shot to death at East State Street and Oakland Avenue by a former boyfriend who then turned the sawed-off shotgun on himself.

Ohio motorists will receive a single windshield sticker in lieu of 1943 license plates to save steel for the war effort.