YEARS AGO FOR JULY 14

Today is Sunday, July 14, the 195th day of 2019. There are 170 days left in the year.

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1789: In an event symbolizing the start of the French Revolution, citizens of Paris storm the Bastille prison and release the seven prisoners inside.

1798: Congress passes the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government.

1912: American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie (”This Land Is Your Land”) is born in Okemah, Okla.

1933: All German political parties, except the Nazi Party, are outlawed.

1966: The city of Chicago awakes to the shocking news that eight student nurses had been brutally slain during the night in a South Side dormitory. Drifter Richard Speck was convicted of the mass killing and condemned to death, but had his sentence reduced to life in prison. He died in 1991.

1976: Jimmy Carter wins the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in New York.

1980: The Republican national convention opens in Detroit, where nominee-apparent Ronald Reagan tells a welcoming rally he and his supporters are determined to “make America great again.”

2009: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Soto-mayor pushes back vigorously against Republican charges that she would bring bias and a liberal agenda to the court.

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff arrives at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina to begin serving a 150-year sentence for his massive Ponzi scheme.

2014: Citigroup agrees to pay $7 billion to settle a federal investigation into its handling of risky subprime mortgages.

The Church of England votes overwhelmingly in favor of allowing women to become bishops.

2016: Terror strikes Bastille Day celebrations in the French Riviera city of Nice as a large truck plowed into a festive crowd, killing 86 people in an attack claimed by Islamic State extremists; the driver was shot dead by police.

2017: A Russian-American lobbyist says he attended a June 2016 meeting with President Donald Trump’s son that was billed as part of a Russian government effort to help the Republican campaign.

2018: Angelique Kerber beats Serena Williams in the women’s final for her first Wimbledon title.

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1994: The Celebration on the Square in Warren features a performance by the Ohio Ballet, an appearance by the Cookie Monster, the fifth annual Packard Museum car show and a two-day Celtic Heritage Fair.

A $650.000 federal loan guarantee is approved to help Youngstown finance street construction, lighting, sewers, and sidewalks for Beachwood Village Lakeside Estates on the city’s East Side.

Residents of Erskine Avenue in Boardman hear about a plan to help halt flooding, but they also learn that the problem may never be solved.

1979: Mahoning County commissioners adopt a tentative 1980 budget of $17.4 million.

The General Motors Corp. will step up production of its small cars at the Lords-town Assembly Plant even as production is slowing down at other plants.

Following a yearlong battle with government statisticians, Campbell and Struthers have been declared eligible for special federal grants aimed at helping distressed cities to attract new jobs.

1969: Detectives have little to go on in their investigation of the death of Thomas Shuler, 35, of Youngstown who died of injuries he received in a beating. He was found unconscious in his car.

James Grohl, former Vindicator Warren bureau correspondent and now a reporter for the Columbus Citizen Journal, writes that state Sen. Bishop Kilpatrick of Trumbull County is strong-arming a bill through the General Assembly that will allow the Warren Public Library to take by eminent domain a 12-room house owned by Fred Wood on land the board wants for a new library on Mahoning Avenue.

Two dynamite blasts within a 21-hour period cause $3,000 damage to the Broadway home of a Republic Rubber employee, Robert Crowley, and to Pete’s Music Center on Market Street.

1944: All four area steel producers – Carnegie-Illinois, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Sharon Steel – are producing steel plate at full capacity for the war effort.

Youngstown Postmaster John Doyle administers the oath of office to Warren’s new postmaster, Raymond E. Schryver.

T/Sgt. Ted Adamszyk, 24, flying hero of three major campaigns, and his companion, Dorothy Strawbecker, 18, are critically injured when their car crashed into a brick wall on Route 422 near Coitsville Center. They are both from New Castle, Pa.