YEARS AGO FOR JULY 2

Today is Tuesday, July 2, the 183rd day of 2019. There are 182 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1776: The Continental Congress passes a resolution saying that “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”

1881: President James A. Garfield is shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station; Garfield would die the following September. (Guiteau was hanged in June 1882.)

1892: The Populist Party (also known as the People’s Party) opens its first national convention in Omaha, Neb.

1917: Rioting erupts in East St. Louis, Ill., as white mobs attack black residents; nearly 50 people, mostly blacks, die.

1961: Author Ernest Hemingway shoots himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.

1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law a sweeping civil-rights bill passed by Congress.

1976: The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual.

1997: Academy Award-winning actor James Stewart dies in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 89.

2018: Rescue divers in Thailand find 12 boys and their soccer coach, who had been trapped by flooding as they explored a cave more than a week earlier.

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1994: Phar-Mor Inc. officials dismiss any notion that the drugstore chain’s senior lenders would choose to liquidate the company.

Tammie Green, a Zanesville native, takes the first-round lead in the Youngstown-Warren LPGA tournament at Avalon Lakes, with a 5-under-par 67.

Walmart will begin interviewing candidates for the first 200 jobs at its Elm Road store in Bazetta Township, which is under construction,

1979: Edward J. DeBartolo will serve as chairman of the board and CEO of Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. and his son, Edward Jr., will be president. His daughter, Marie Denise DeBartolo York, will be executive vice president.

In a surprise move, Mason D. Feisel resigns as president of GF Business Equipment Inc., and will be succeeded by Robert L. Richards.

Using nine-passenger twin-engined Piper Navajos, Indiana Airways launches its schedule of six round trips daily between Youngstown and Pittsburgh.

1969:Mahoning County Auditor Stephen Olenick says his office will be closed Saturdays in July and August, becoming the first county office holder to institute Saturday closings.

Six Girl Scouts from Mexico arrive for a stay of several weeks at Camp Millwood on Gault Road. Youngstown area Scouts at the camp will be learning about life in Mexico from Patricia Martin DelCampo, Christina Chavez, Loreen Alvarez, Liz Mullen, Ceceila Soldano and Pilar Williamson.

Police are trying to locate relatives of an 88-year-old man, evidently from Spokane, Wash., who arrived on a Greyhound bus. The man seemed confused and said he was in Youngstown to visit a son who could not be found.

1944: The Mahoning County sheriff heard rumors that a house of prostitution at 258 W. Front St. that had been closed for remodeling was going to reopen. He ruined the event with a raid that resulted in the arrest of the 52-year-old female proprietor.

Dr. Schuyler Garth, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, is elected as a bishop by the North Central Jurisdictional Conference of the Methodist Church at Minneapolis.

Nine boys playing near Old Furnace Road in Mill Creek Park found $2,500 in an abandoned safe. Burglars removed the safe from the L&S Wine Shop, East Federal Street, and cracked it, but they overlooked an envelope containing the money. The boys are James Richards, James Wilson, Richard Kearns, Herbert Brady, Robert Milner, Joseph Richey, Palmer Rozier, Charles A. Wilson and Charles Barksdale.