YEARS AGO FOR JULY 6, 2019

Today is Saturday, July 6, the 187th day of 2019. There are 178 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1535: Sir Thomas More is executed in England for high treason.

1777: During the American Revolution, British forces capture Fort Ticonderoga.

1885: French scientist Louis Pasteur tests an anti-rabies vaccine on 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by an infected dog; the boy did not develop rabies.

1944: An estimated 168 people die in a fire that breaks out during a performance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn.

1957: Sixteen-year-old John Lennon first meets 15-year-old Paul McCartney when Lennon’s band, the Quarrymen skiffle group, performs at St. Peter’s Church in Woolton, Liverpool.

1964: Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner dies in Byhalia, Miss., at age 64.

1971: Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong dies in New York at age 69.

1997: The rover Sojourner rolls down a ramp from the Mars Pathfinder lander onto the Martian landscape to begin inspecting the soil and rocks of the red planet.

2009: Robert McNamara, the Pentagon chief who’d directed the escalation of the Vietnam War, dies in Washington at 93.

2018: The United States and China impose tariffs on billions of dollars of each other’s goods in what Beijing calls the “biggest trade war in economic history.”

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1994: The Howland Local Schools administration and teachers agree on a new contract that will increase the starting salary for a teacher from $21,740 to $22,284.

The Weathersfield Township Zoning Commission turns down a zone change request by Truck World Inc. for a travel center at West Liberty Street and Salt Springs Road.

An effort by two Youngstown Board of Education members, Don Hanni III and Robert Bush, to entice Superintendent Alfred Tutela to stay in Youngstown dies when no other board members join the effort. Tutela has accepted the superintendent’s job at Wachusett School District.

1979: The Youngstown State University Board of Trustees approves a new contract with the Youngstown Chapter of the Ohio Education Association giving full-service faculty a salary increase of 9 percent in both 1979-80 and 1980-81.

The Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce board of directors will oppose the Ohio Education Association’s proposed constitutional amendment for a basic state education fund.

Kitty Carlisle stars in “Blossom Time” at the Kenley Players in Warren.

1969: The greater Youngstown area is still mopping up from storms that cut diagonally through Trumbull and Mahoning counties, damaging crops, buildings and the countryside. Some areas have been without power for more than two days.

John Hynes, director and retired board chairman of Hynes Steel Products, and his wife, Loretta, are giving $150,000 to the campaign to finance an addition to St. Elizabeth Hospital.

People living in the Youngstown area reported income of $1.4 billion on their 1966 federal tax returns, a new IRS publication reports.

1944: Mahoning County’s first case of infantile paralysis in 1944 is reported by Dr. S.G. Patton, county health commissioner, who said Shirley Griffith, 18 months, of Ellsworth Township, was taken to Akron Children’s Hospital.

A desperate struggle to save 64 coal miners trapped by fire in the Powhatan mine near Bellaire, Ohio, is abandoned after fresh flames drive back rescue crews.

Walter H. Sammis, the new president of Ohio Edison Co., makes an inspection of the company’s Youngstown facilities accompanied by A.C. Blinn, chairman of the board, and Sam Stites, Youngstown division manager.