YEARS AGO FOR JULY 22

Today is Monday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2019. There are 162 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1587: An English colony fated to vanish under mysterious circumstances is established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.

1862: President Abraham Lincoln presents to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.

1934: Bank robber John Dillinger is shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, where he had just seen the Clark Gable movie “Manhattan Melodrama.”

1942: The Nazis begin transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp. Gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons begins in the U.S.

1946: The militant Zionist group Irgun blows up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people.

1975: The House of Representatives joins the Senate in voting to restore the American citizenship of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

1991: Police in Milwaukee arrest Jeffrey Dahmer, who later would confess to murdering 17 men and boys (Dahmer ended up being beaten to death by a fellow prison inmate).

2005: A labor agreement ends an NHL lockout that canceled the previous hockey season.

2008: Actress Estelle Getty dies in Los Angeles at age 84.

2014: A Hamas rocket explodes near Israel’s main airport, prompting a ban on flights from the U.S. and many from Europe and Canada.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Prosecutors file new federal charges against former Phar-Mor executive Michael Monus, including claims he diverted $8.8 million in Phar-Mor cash to the World Basketball League and $568,000 to himself.

Despite a task force’s recommendation to retain paddling in Youngstown schools, Superintendent Alfred Tutela recommends that the board of education outlaw the practice in the 1996-97 school year.

Eleven demolition derby drivers complain to the Trumbull County Fair Board that blatant rules violations by some drivers were overlooked. The board votes to withhold payment to the top four winners until it is determined that all had abided by the rules.

1979: Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general, will represent the Northeast Ohio Legal Services, which is being sued by Teamsters Local 377, which accuses the legal service of intervening in and lengthening the Anchor Motor Freight strike by representing Teamsters for a Democratic Union.

Farmland is gradually disappearing in Lawrence County, Pa., which had 1,344 farms in 1959 and 1,040 in 1977.

Six of nine defendants in the Veterans Charity Bingo civil case admit receiving more than $14,000 in wages and expenses for working at the bingo game, a violation of state bingo laws.

1969: To provide temporary relief for crowded conditions at North High School, the Youngstown Board of Education decides to bus 236 elementary children to other schools in the area and to house only seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders in the Science Hill building in September.

Police and firefighters are called back to the South Side, scene of civil disorders last week, when two Hillman Street business firms are damaged by Molotov cocktail bombs. The places were Foy’s BBQ and South Side Billiards.

Three employees of General Motors’ Packard Electric Division have been named general foremen in manufacturing. They are: Donald Grise, James Rounsley and Robert Catron.

1944: A plaque listing the names of 132 men and women from the parish who have served in the armed forces is installed at St. John’s Episcopal Church. It is the first such shrine in a Protestant church in Youngstown.

Ohio and Pennsylvania officials place Camp Fitch at North Springfield under a two-week quarantine after positive diagnosis that a camper, Thomas Hoyt, 15, of Poland had developed infantile paralysis.