YEARS AGO FOR JULY 16

Today is Tuesday, July 16, the 197th day of 2019. There are 168 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1790: A site along the Potomac River is designated the permanent seat of the United States government; the area would become known as Washington, D.C.

1945: The United States explodes its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, N.M.

1957: Marine Corps Maj. John Glenn sets a transcontinental speed record by flying a Vought F8U Crusader jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8.4 seconds.

1969: Apollo 11 blasts off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.

1979: Saddam Hussein becomes president of Iraq.

1999: John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when their single-engine plane, piloted by Kennedy, plunges into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

2004: Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement by a federal judge in New York for lying about a stock sale.

2008: Florida resident Casey Anthony, originally from Warren, Ohio, whose 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, had been missing a month, is arrested on charges of child neglect, making false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation.

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1994: Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher speaks to about 200 people at Fitch High School and praises the 10-year-old Austintown Neighborhood Watch program.

Youngstown City Schools Superintendent Alfred Tutela agrees to a three-year contract as superintendent of the Wachusett, Mass., school district and will leave Youngstown by Aug. 1.

Ground is broken for an $8.4 million Youngstown State University dormitory at Madison Avenue and Elm Street that will be reserved primarily for students in the new University Scholars program.

1979: The Sharon and Reynolds, Pa., plants of Westinghouse Electric Corp. are closed as about 2,000 striking IUE workers set up picket lines.

William Wrobleski and Roy Prince are rescued by Youngstown firefighters from porch roofs when fire strikes a 10-unit apartment building at 117-119 Worthington St.

Msgr. Edward B. Conry, 98, the first principal of the coeducational Ursuline High School in Youngstown and the oldest priest in the Diocese of Cleveland, dies in Augustine Manor, Cleveland.

1969: More than 50 Boy Scouts from the Mahoning Valley Council board buses for the Pittsburgh Airport and their flight to the Seventh National Jamboree at Farragut State Park, Idaho.

East Ohio Gas Co. begins the delicate job of boring a hole 2 feet in diameter under six sets of busy railroad tracks at the Division Street crossing as part of a $100,000 gas-line relocation job.

Andrew S. Klinko, Campbell schools superintendent twice and former superintendent of Struthers schools, is named to the Campbell post for the third time, succeeding Nicholas D’Amato, who died in June.

1944: Industrial water and flood-control needs of the Eastern Ohio-Western Pennsylvania area to ensure its future industrial growth will be studied when a group of U.S. Army Engineers meets with local industrial firms.

Geraldine Jackson at the Haseltine playground and Dorothy Carroll of Truscon are winners in the senior division of the girls’ jacks contest. Miss Margaret Owen is in charge of the competition.

The Mahoning County Red Cross says there’s an urgent need for nurses to go to Louisville, Ky., to help with an outbreak of infantile paralysis. There are 40 cases in one hospital and 30 in another.