Today is Saturday, July 13, the 194th day of 2019. There are 171 days left in the year.

July 13, 2019 at 12:00a.m.

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On this date in:

1863: Deadly rioting against the Civil War military draft erupts in New York City.

1960: John F. Kennedy wins the Democratic presidential nomination on the first ballot at his party’s convention in Los Angeles, outdrawing rivals including Lyndon B. Johnson.

1972: George McGovern receives the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Miami Beach.

1973: Former presidential aide Alexander P. Butterfield reveals to Senate Watergate Committee staff members the existence of President Richard Nixon’s secret White House taping system.

1978: Lee Iacocca is fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II. (Iacocca died last week at age 94.)

2005: A suicide car bomb explodes next to U.S. troops handing out candy and toys in Iraq, killing more than two dozen people.

2013: A jury in Sanford, Fla., clears neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman of all charges in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager whose killing unleashed furious debate over racial profiling, self-defense and equal justice.

2018: A grand jury indictment, sought by special counsel Robert Mueller, alleges that the Russian government was behind a sweeping conspiracy to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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1994: Recognized during the opening of the 148th Trumbull County Fair are the Champion High girls’ softball state champions and the Joseph Badger High state champion envirothon team.

The Ohio Board of Education votes not to appeal a judge’s ruling that Ohio’s system of funding education is unconstitutional. Gov. George Voinovich, however, says the state will appeal the ruling.

Mill Creek Park commissioners sign an agreement that will result in construction of 12 miles of the Mahoning Bikeway along abandoned railroad tracks.

1979: A stubborn arson fire melted and burned several thousand tires at Diver Steel City Auto Crusher Inc. on Wilson Avenue, sending billows of thick black smoke over the East Side.

A Mahoning County Common Pleas jury deliberated for four hours before finding a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old who were being tried as adults guilty of murder during a robbery of Ann O’Neil outside a Belmont Avenue bowling alley in October.

Howland Township police investigators are working around the clock on the murder of Karen Barnes, a Howland High School senior, whose body was found behind the Jim Nichol Motor Co. on Youngstown Road. She had been shot three times.

1969: The Youngstown district’s 35,000 to 40,000 basic steel workers will get raises of 9 to 22 cents an hour effective Aug. 1, which will increase payrolls by some $2 million per month.

A 23-year-old Pennsylvania woman, a student at Youngstown State University, is among the 10 finalists in the Miss Ohio Pageant at Cedar Point. Andrea Kley of Sharpsville is a music major at YSU.

Darrell Fisher, 27, of Brookfield, drowns in the Shenango River Reservoir while trying to rescue his daughter and niece after their plastic boat capsized.

1944: Youngstown’s municipal hospital on Indianola Avenue, virtually unused since it was built in 1918, will be taken over by the state for use as a receiving hospital for mental cases.

Pvt. Charles Good, 27, of Youngstown is officially listed as missing in action and not killed as earlier reported by The Vindicator. He has been missing since June 4.

Arlene Riggle of Columbiana, a junior at Kent State University, will play the lead role in the summer production of Molnar’s “Liliom.” She is the daughter of Columbiana School Supt. and Mrs. C.B. Riggle.