Sunday, July 21, 2019
Today is Sunday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2019. There are 163 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1861: During the Civil War, the first Battle of Bull Run is fought at Manassas, Va., resulting in a Confederate victory.
1925: The so-called “Monkey Trial” ends in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes found guilty of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. (The conviction was later overturned on a technicality.)
1944: American forces land on Guam during World War II, capturing it from the Japanese some three weeks later.
The Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominates Sen. Harry S. Truman to be vice president.
1955: During a summit in Geneva, President Dwight D. Eisenhower presents his “open skies” proposal under which the U.S. and the Soviet Union would trade information on each other’s military facilities and allow aerial reconnaissance. (The Soviets rejected the proposal.)
1969: Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin walk on the surface of the moon before blasting off aboard the ascent stage of the lunar module for docking with the command module.
1980: Draft registration begins in the United States for 19- and 20-year-old men.
1990: A benefit concert takes place in Germany at the site of the fallen Berlin Wall; the concert, which draws some 200,000 people, is headlined by Roger Waters, a founder of Pink Floyd. (The concert ends with the collapse of a mock Berlin Wall made of styrofoam.)
1994: Britain’s Labor Party elects Tony Blair its new leader, succeeding the late John Smith.
1999: Navy divers find and recover the bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, in the wreckage of Kennedy’s plane in the Atlantic Ocean off Martha’s Vineyard.
2009: Taco Bell mascot Gidget the Chihuahua dies in Santa Clarita, Calif., at 15.
2011: The 30-year-old space shuttle program ends as Atlantis lands at Cape Canaveral, Fla., after the 135th shuttle flight.
2014: President Barack Obama orders employment protection for gay and transgender employees who work for the federal government.
2017: White House press secretary Sean Spicer abruptly quits over President Donald Trump’s decision to name financier Anthony Scaramucci as the new White House communications director. (Scaramucci was fired on July 31 after 11 days on the job; he had used vulgar language to insult White House aides during a phone call to a reporter.)
2018: Reacting to the disclosure that his former lawyer had secretly taped their discussion about a potential payment for a former Playboy model, President Donald Trump calls such taping “totally unheard of & perhaps illegal,” but added that he “did nothing wrong.”
VINDICATOR FILES
1994: Disgruntled Lords-town Village officials accept a 30.8 percent increase in water costs from Niles, but say they will be looking for a new supplier, possibly Warren.
Twenty-five years after Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the lunar surface, his hometown of Wapakoneta, Ohio, celebrates outside the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum. Armstrong was being honored at the White House.
Finishing touches are being made to a new performing arts pavilion at Mill Creek Park that will be unveiled with a concert by the Youngstown Symphony on Aug. 6.
1979: Commuter Aircraft Corp. files an application for FAA certification of its planned commuter turbo-prop airplane that would be built at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Ronald H. Wean of Austintown is ordained at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church and will accept a pastorship in Arapahoe, Neb.
Claiming that “steelworker jobs everywhere are at stake,” Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes, a Republican, asks President Carter, a Democrat, to extend indefinitely a tariff on specialty steel.
1969: A “good Saturday night” puts Youngstown police back on eight-hour shifts and lets the 160 National Guardsmen on duty in the area for a week go home. There was one rock-throwing incident reported in Girard.
Some advice from editors of The Vindicator: Be sure to save all of today’s edition chronicling Neil Armstrong’s historic “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Racial unrest in Farrell, a city of 14,000, caused severe damage from burnings, looting and general breakage during the weekend. Police and firemen reported 12 businesses damaged.
1944: The City Garbage Co. operated by Harry Bord submits the lowest bid of $5.96 per ton for collecting garbage in the city. The other bid by M. DeBartolo Co. was $8.66 a ton.
Dr. William Edmunds, Cleveland’s manpower director, a former Youngstown man, is ousted from office by Dr. Robert Goodwin. Edmunds’ sister is Catherine Edmunds, principal of Harding and McKinley schools.
Four Youngstown men are missing in action: John Sanford, Howard Sass, Guido Bertella and Robert Pherson.