Friday, July 19, 2019
Today is Friday, July 19, the 200th day of 2019. There are 165 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1553: King Henry VIII’s daughter Mary is proclaimed Queen of England after Lady Jane Grey is deposed.
1812: During the War of 1812, the First Battle of Sackets Harbor Lake Ontario results in an American victory as U.S. naval forces repel a British attack.
1848: A pioneering women’s rights convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
1961: TWA becomes the first airline to begin showing regularly scheduled -flight movies as it presented “By Love Possessed” to first-class passengers on a flight from New York to Los Angeles.
1969: Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, go into orbit around the moon.
1980: The Moscow Summer Olympics begins, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
1993: President Bill Clinton announces a policy allowing homosexuals to serve the military under a compromise dubbed “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue.”
2016: Republicans meeting in Cleveland nominate Donald J. Trump as their presidential standard-bearer. In brief videotaped remarks, Trump thanks the delegates, saying: “This is a movement, but we have to go all the way.”
VINDICATOR FILES
1994: An investigation into possible jury tampering in the mistrial of former Phar-Mor executive Michael Monus identifies former Youngstown State University Quarterback Ray Isaac as the man seen talking to a Monus juror during a recess.
Sixteen actors, a 20-person crew and about 50 extras are filming “Baskin’s Run,” a feature-length film by Pittsburgh Pictures, in Mill Creek Park and downtown Youngstown.
George Glinatsis of Boardman, just called up from Double A-Jacksonville by the Seattle Mariners lasts 42/3 innings in his Major League debut. The Mariners win 7-5.
1979: Youngstown police are attempting to find out who set fire to a dog outside the home of Frank Fullum, 411 Glenwood Ave. No one seems to know what happened to the dog.
Ohio wins a $313,000 federal grant with which to plan ways to restore abandoned coal mines that scar the landscape and contaminate underground water supplies in northeast Ohio.
Three Youngstown area service stations are accused of price gouging by the U.S. Department of Energy, which said they exceeded federally determined price ceilings for gasoline.
1969: The Lincoln Park Drive home of Atty. Don L Hanni Jr., criminal defense lawyer, municipal court judge and mayoral candidate, is gutted by a fire that investigators say was deliberately set.
Youngstown detectives charge James Williams, 23, with grand larceny. Police are investigating reports he is from Chicago and is an organizer of civil disorder.
Darryl Kubic, 27, son of Youngstown police Sgt. Peter Kubic Sr., is killed when his car collides head-on with a speeding auto in a driving rainstorm in Route 422 near Butler, Pa.
1944: Identified in a show-up of suspects in the Mahoning Valley Country Club holdup, two Youngstown men, John Morris and Henry Bushara, are charged as bandits who held up Elizabeth Burton after she went to the bank for the South Side Grill.
Five suits are filed against Penn-Ohio Coach Lines as a result of an accident involving a bus and a car in November. One plaintiff claims to have sustained permanent injuries.
During a national convention of the Official Seed Analysts, a warning is issued that alfalfa and clover seeds are in dangerously short supply worldwide. There is a critical need to reseed fields in Russia and England.