YEARS AGO FOR JULY 3

Today is Wednesday, July 3, the 184th day of 2019. There are 181 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1775: Gen. George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.

1863: The three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ends in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops fail to breach Union positions during an assault known as Pickett’s Charge.

1890: Idaho becomes the 43rd state of the Union.

1950: The first carrier strikes of the Korean War take place as the USS Valley Forge and the HMS Triumph send fighter planes against North Korean targets.

1976: Israel launches its daring mission to rescue 106 passengers and Air France crew members being held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers; all but four are rescued.

1988: The USS Vincennes shoots down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.

1996: Russians go to the polls and re-elect Boris Yeltsin president.

2003: The U.S. puts a $25 million bounty on Saddam Hussein, and $15 million apiece for his two sons.

2013: Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, is overthrown.

2018: The Trump administration says it will not encourage schools to use race as a factor in the admissions process, rescinding guidance from the Obama era that was meant to promote diversity.

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1994: Kim Williams, 31, a golfer from Maryland in Niles for the Youngstown-Warren LPGA Classic, is wounded by a stray bullet as she walks into the Phar-Mor store in the Great East Plaza.

A telephone survey by the Youngstown State University Center for Urban Studies for the Mahoning County Board of Health shows that area residents score at or worse than state averages for physical activity, high cholesterol and diabetes.

William Courtney, 80, of Canfield has bicycled his 100,000th mile and continues to ride 30 to 50 miles a day. Courtney, founder of Serex Services in Austintown, took up cycling at 56.

1979: The Western Reserve Transit Authority institutes a July and August promotion, reducing the 25-cent fare to 10 cents.

Dr. Donald Renwand, superintendent of Niles City Schools, says the district faces a deficit as high as $769,603 by the end of 1980.

Maintenance and janitorial workers at 12 of the 30 locations of the Edward J. DeBartolo Co., members of the Service, Nursing Home and Public Employees Union, are on strike after negotiations break down.

1969: The Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce sends a letter of vigorous protest to Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes for his support of the Akron-Canton area over Youngstown as the site of a new medical school.

Odie Ellis, president of the local Welfare Rights Organization, proclaims her grievances against the welfare system as recipients gather at the Southside Total Action Center after their July checks were late.

United Airlines, struggling with overcrowding problems at the Youngstown Municipal Airport, set two records for passenger boardings. On one day, June 1, 627 passengers boarded flights.

1944: Youngstown police catch two burglars loading stolen whiskey into an automobile at the rear of the Belvedere Cafe, 251 W. Federal St.

Mahoning Sheriff Ralph Elser and his deputies smash the barred door of the Brotherhood of Syrian Americans Club at 321 W. Federal St., and find illegal liquor and beer being sold to more than 100 people, many of them servicemen.

Two coming shows will swell Mahoning County’s totals in the Fifth War Loan Drive. Youngstown jewelers are presenting a special show at the Palace Theater and the Mahoning County War Finance Committee will put on a show at Stambaugh Auditorium.