YEARS AGO FOR JULY 1

Today is Monday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2019. There are 183 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1863: The pivotal, three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in a Union victory, begins in Pennsylvania.

1867: Canada becomes a self-governing dominion of Great Britain as the British North America Act takes effect.

1934: Hollywood begins enforcing its Production Code subjecting motion pictures to censorship review.

1944: Delegates from 44 countries begin meeting at Bretton Woods, N.H., where they agree to establish the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

1961: Diana, the princess of Wales, is born in Sandringham, England. (She died in a 1997 car crash in Paris at age 36.)

1963: The U.S. Post Office inaugurates its five-digit ZIP codes.

1973: The Drug Enforcement Administration is established.

1991: The Warsaw Pact formally disbands.

1991: President George H.W. Bush nominates federal appeals court judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, beginning an ultimately successful confirmation process marked by allegations of sexual harassment.

1995: Rock ’n’ roll disc jockey Wolfman Jack dies in Belvidere, N.C., at age 57.

2018: Mexican voters, angry over corruption and violence, elect leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as president.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Columbiana County Sheriff Richard J. Koffel says a 1971 van is being examined for bloodstains in the investigation of the murder in 1988 of Lynn Hanna, whose dismembered body was found on the banks of the Ohio River.

Overhead Door Inc. of Dallas will buy Genie Co. of Alliance, Ohio, the largest manufacturer of garage-door openers.

Perry County Common Pleas Court Judge Linton Lewis rules that education is a fundamental right and that Ohio’s system of school funding is unconstitutional.

1979: The 134th Trumbull County Fair opens amid predictions of rain and cloudy skies.

Robert L. Wooten, 21, is charged with three counts of homicide in the killing of his sister-in-law, Deborah Taylor, 21; her son Jessie, 5; and daughter, Billie Jo, 3, in East Liverpool.

Ohio Edison is planning to reduce emissions at its Sammis plant, the company’s largest and dirtiest plant, by shifting the use of high-sulphur coal to some of its eight other power plants.

1969: The once-active Wellman Theaters chain disappears from the Youngstown area when Attys. Nicholas and Thomas Wellman, representing their father’s estate, turn over the lease of the Wedgewood Theater in Austintown to Blair Mooney of Cleveland.

Construction of the proposed McGuffey Junior High School on Youngstown’s Southeast Side is put on hold by the Youngstown Board of Education pending a comprehensive study of the district’s building needs.

More than 150 members of the Mahoning County Bar Association give a standing ovation to Atty. William Swanton who marked 50 years in the practice of the law.

1944: The War Manpower Commission says about 50 Youngstown plants employing 55,000 male workers will be able to hire only new employees who have been referred to them by the U.S. Employment Service.

Lt. Stewart Wise, 22, of Fifth Avenue, Youngstown, is killed in action in France only two days after writing home about the fierce fighting during the Allied D-Day invasion. He was in the engineering corps and was among the first to invade the continent on D-Day.

E. Mason Wick, 73, of Salem, manufacturer of farm equipment, dies in Salem City Hospital. He had been ill for a year.