YEARS AGO FOR JULY 9

Today is Tuesday, July 9, the 190th day of 2019. There are 175 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1755: British General Edward Braddock is fatally wounded as his troops suffer a massive defeat during the French and Indian War (he died four days later).

1776: The Declaration of Independence is read aloud to Gen. George Washington’s troops in New York.

1850: The 12th president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, dies after serving only 16 months of his term. (He was succeeded by Millard Fillmore.)

1937: A fire at 20th Century Fox’s film storage facility in Little Ferry, N.J., destroys most of the studio’s silent films.

1962: Pop artist Andy Warhol’s exhibit of 32 paintings of Campbell’s soup cans opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.

1992: Democrat Bill Clinton taps Tennessee Sen. Al Gore to be his running mate.

1995: Jerry Garcia performs for the final time as frontman of the Grateful Dead in Chicago. (Garcia died a month later).

2014: President Barack Obama begins a two-day visit to Texas, where he meets with state officials, including Gov. Rick Perry, to discuss the influx of unaccompanied children at the U.S.-Mexico border.

2018: President Donald Trump chooses Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court to fill the seat left vacant by the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: The Bessemer Cement Co. applies to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources for permission to burn old tires to fuel its kilns, which the company says will reduce material going into landfills and will save the company money.

Poland Police Chief Russell Beatty suspends one of his four officers for allowing a motorists to go home and write an $80 check for an outstanding warrant from mayor’s court. Beatty said the motorist should have been taken to Struthers Jail and booked on the outstanding warrant.

Liberty Township trustees say two officers who responded to a disturbance call at Choices Lounge involving a then-fellow police officer did not act improperly in failing to arrest the officer for the disturbance or for possibly driving under the influence.

1979: Responding to the effects of a drop in sales of vans due to gasoline shortages and the high cost of fuel, General Motors says that it will shut down its Lordstown van plant for three weeks.

Motorcyclist Anthony L. Olbrych, 17, of Canfield is injured when a speeding van sideswipes him near his home and fled. He is in guarded condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Jay C. Brownlee Jr., 32, of Youngstown is found shot to death outside the Third Dimension Bar at 1711 Belmont Avenue.

1969: The Ohio Senate re-votes and approves a bill giving Ohioans four three-day holiday weekends a year: Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Columbus Day and Veterans Day.

Directors of the Mayor’s Human Relations Commission and the Youngstown Area Community Action Program will meet with city park officials to discuss extended playground hours. The city has received complaints of children having been lifted from swings so that playthings could be stored for the night.

Seven juveniles charged with throwing debris along Lowellville Road from a pickup truck were placed on probation to their parents. Capt. George Stanko made them pick up the litter.

1944: The fifth War Loan Drive officially closed with Mahoning County $1.3 million behind its quota.

Pfc. Mike Bigley, 29, of Lowellville is reported killed in action in Italy.

Nine boys who found $2,500 in a safe in Mill Creek Park are given war bonds of $25 each by Jack Snyder, proprietor of the L&S Wine Shoppe on East Federal Street from which the safe had been stolen.