YEARS AGO FOR JULY 25

Today is Thursday, July 25, the 206th day of 2019. There are 159 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1866: Ulysses S. Grant is named general of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank.

1946: The United States detonates an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device.

1956: The Italian liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New England coast and sinks; 51 people – 46 from the Andrea Doria, five from the Stockholm – are killed.

1960: A Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, N.C., that had been the scene of a sit-in protest against its whites-only lunch counter drops its segregation policy.

1978: Louise Joy Brown, the first “test tube baby,” is born in Oldham, England; she’d been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.

1984: Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to walk in space.

1985: A spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms that the actor is suffering from AIDS. (Hudson died in October 1985.)

2002: Zacarias Moussaoui declares he is guilty of conspiracy in the September 11 attacks, then dramatically withdraws his plea at his arraignment in Alexandria, Va.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Anticipating that Trumbull County Central Court Judge Andrew Logan will win a seat on the Common Pleas Court bench, three attorneys have already expressed interest in Logan’s job: Susan McNally, Thomas Campbell and Robert Shaker.

About 500 people show up in the first hour of a job fair to fill openings at the super maximum prison that will be built on the East Side of Youngstown.

A drawing by Eric Schaffert of Poland of Pittsburgh Pirate great Roberto Clemente is displayed at Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game in Pittsburgh.

1979: Restaurant owner and alleged bookmaker Jack R. Tobin, 39, is slain by a masked gunman who fired a single shotgun blast into his chest as he was about to enter his Austintown apartment at 80 N. Raccoon Road.

For the first time in Salem’s history, City Council has recognized a union to represent municipal employees. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees will represent water, sewer and service department workers.

The news media gets a tour of the Davis-Besse Nuclear Plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio, which is reopening after safety improvements were made after the power industry’s worst nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania.

1969: Passing motorists stopped to help patrolmen lift a car off a 31-year-old North Side man, Joseph Ashford, seriously injured in a freak two-car accident on the I-680 freeway at the Belle Vista exit.

Atty. Richard P. McLaughlin resigns his post as general counsel for the Federal Mediation and Reconciliation Service to return to Youngstown and join the law firm of Green, Schiavoni, Murphy and Stevens.

The Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus thrills thousands at the Canfield Fairgrounds.

Walter O. Strausbaugh, 79, one of the best known auto dealers in Ohio and founder of W.O. Strausbaugh Motor Co., dies at Otto’s Nursing Home where he had been since he returned from Florida.

1944: Traffic Commissioner Clarence Coppersmith is placed in complete charge of the police ambulance division and police garage by Chief John Thomas and Mayor Ralph O’Neill.

Airport Manager Edwin S. Turner will attempt to determine how much is available in federal funding for post-war development of the $2.5 million Youngstown Municipal Airport.

If the person who stole the Campbell police blotter returns it at once, Chief John Oshelski will be happy. The blotter was locked in a desk drawer. Many have been questioned but it still has not been found.