YEARS AGO FOR JULY 23

Today is Tuesday, July 23, the 204th day of 2019. There are 161 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1829: William Austin Burt receives a patent for his “typographer,” a forerunner of the typewriter.

1885: Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, dies in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at 63.

1914: Austria-Hungary presents a list of demands to Serbia after the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb assassin. (Serbia’s refusal to agree to the entire ultimatum led to the outbreak of World War I.)

1967: Five days of rioting that killed 43 people erupt in Detroit as an early morning police raid on an unlicensed bar resulted in a confrontation with local residents.

1999: Space shuttle Columbia blasts off with the world’s most powerful X-ray telescope and Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a U.S. space flight.

2003: A new audiotape purported to be from toppled dictator Saddam Hussein calls on Iraqis to resist the U.S. occupation.

2011: Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, is found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.

2017: A tractor trailer is found in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio, Texas, crammed with dozens of immigrants; 10 die and many more are treated at a hospital for dehydration and heat stroke.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Poland, says he will support Campbell rather than Warren as a site for a Job Corps center after Warren mayor Dan Sferra did not respond to a facsimile from the congressman’s office seeking a commitment of support for the project from the mayor.

A $5.4 million contract is awarded to a Canton contractor to build a hangar and a small-arms munitions storage facility at the Youngstown Air Force Reserve Base.

Bill Dlwgosh, 48, a high-school science teacher in Warren is struck by lightning while hiking in Coronado National Forest about 100 miles southeast of Phoenix. He came out of a coma after two days, but remains in critical condition.

1979: The Youngstown Fire Department ambulance, one of the few remaining “frills” offered to city residents by city government, will sound its sirens for the last time Sept. 30.

Lightning strikes Ursuline High School, heavily damaging the large brick chimney and the roof. The chapel and three classrooms have water damage.

More than 1,000 Ku Klux Klan members and sympathizers and 50 anti-Klan protesters assemble for a Klan membership drive in Middletown, Ohio. More than 100 police keep the two sides apart.

1969: Consolidated income for all of Lykes-Youngstown Corp. for the first half of 1968 was down more than 50 percent over a similar period in 1968 while the company’s steel and related business was off 11 percent.

An Ohio Senate education subcommittee recommends that the minimum salary for a teacher with a bachelor’s degree be increased from $5,200 to $5,400.

Acting on a motion by lawyers of the Youngstown NAACP and American Civil Liberties Union, Youngstown Municipal Judge John Leskovyansky reviewed bonds on nine men arrested during disorders. Six men were released, and bonds were reduced for three.

1944: Phillip Murray calls upon the CIO United Steelworkers of America, of which he is president, to increase steel plant production 10 percent if humanly possible to meet military needs.

Sharon Steel Corp. reports a profit of $307,744 during the first half of 1944.

A 24-year-old Campbell man is sought in connection with a robbery in which an estimated $300 worth of watches were scooped up from the display window of a downtown jewelry store.