YEARS AGO FOR JULY 10

Today is Wednesday, July 10, the 191st day of 2019. There are 174 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1509: Theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, is born in Noyon, Picardy, France.

1919: President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate and urges its ratification. (However, the Senate rejected it.)

1925: Jury selection takes place in Dayton, Tenn., in the trial of John T. Scopes, charged with violating the law by teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (Scopes was convicted and fined, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality.)

1929: American paper currency is reduced in size as the government begins issuing bills that are approximately 25 percent smaller.

1940: During World War II, the Battle of Britain begins as the Luftwaffe starts attacking southern England. (The Royal Air Force was ultimately victorious.)

1951: Armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War begin at Kaesong.

1991: Boris N. Yeltsin takes the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.

1999: The United States women’s soccer team wins the World Cup, beating China 5-4 in Pasadena, Calif.

2009: General Motors completes an unusually quick exit from bankruptcy protection with promises of making money and building cars people will be eager to buy.

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1994: On average, Youngstown has had a homicide every six days in 1994 and 27 of the 32 victims were black – predominantly young males.

Almost half of the nearly 200 bridges and spans in Lawrence County, Pa., will require replacement or repair over the next decade. Replacing the Grant Street Bridge in New Castle will cost $3 million.

St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center continues to cut expenses and staff, with an estimated 150 jobs due to be eliminated.

1979: A $5.6 million reduction in tangible personal property taxes due to the closing of former Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. facilities will result in a revenue loss of $339,970 for the city of Struthers.

Paul Schroeder, The Vindicator’s Columbus correspondent, reports from China that Ohio’s trade delegation led by Gov. James A. Rhodes received a warm welcome during its three-day stay in Wuhan, which he described as a hot, dirty, polluted and crowded city of staggering poverty.

Fire destroys the Hillcrest Tavern on Robinson Road in Campbell.

1969: More than 200 community leaders and other “friends of the Canfield Fair” attend the annual kick-off dinner in the Home Arts and Crafts Building, marking the official launch of activities leading up to the 123rd Canfield Fair opening Aug. 28.

Youngstown is a feasible location for Ohio’s fifth medical school, according to a study commissioned by the Mahoning County Medical Society.

Five Pilot Guide Dogs begin obedience training at Lisbon fairgrounds as part of a 4-H project undertaken in cooperation with the Pilot Guide Center in Columbus.

1944: A Struthers boy, John Factor, 7, was struck by lightning and injured and a barn on Hubbard-West Middlesex Road burned in freak storms in the Youngstown district.

Bishop Schuyler Garth will leave Youngstown in September to assume his new duties as a bishop of the Methodist Church with headquarters in Madison, Wis.

A merger is proposed between the Youngstown & Southern and Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western Railroads, which form an important Youngstown coal-hauling route.