Saturday, July 27, 2019
Today is Saturday, July 27, the 208th day of 2019. There are 157 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1794: French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre is overthrown and placed under arrest; he is executed the following day.
1909: During the first official test of the U.S. Army’s first airplane, Orville Wright flies himself and a passenger, Lt. Frank Lahm, above Fort Myer, Va., for one hour and 12 minutes.
1953: The Korean War armistice is signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting.
1974: The House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 to adopt the first of three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon, charging he personally engaged in a course of conduct designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.
1996: Terror strikes the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park, killing one person and injuring 111.
2013: Security forces and armed men clash with supporters of Egypt’s ousted president, Mohammed Morsi, killing at least 80 people.
2017: Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicle the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American West, dies at his Kentucky home at the age of 73 from complications related to Lou Gehrig’s disease.
VINDICATOR FILES
1994: The Mahoning County-Youngstown Convention and Visitors Bureau says it might support a proposed mini-convention center as a way of helping to save Youngstown’s Higbee complex from the wrecking ball.
A $70 million movie theme park based on the work of the Warner brothers is proposed for downtown New Castle, Pa., where the brothers opened their first theater, the Cascade.
The 7th District Court of Appeals rules against The Vindicator in its bid to see Board of Education members’ individual evaluations of the performance of Superintendent Alfred Tutela. The court rules that while the final report is a public record, the notes of individual board members are not.
1979: U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams, R-Lordstown, will join a special congressional delegation headed for Southeast Asia in August to investigate the plight of “boat people” and hundreds of thousands of other refugees.
Temporary layoffs of 3,200 workers at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors in Warren will continue through August as a result of model changeovers and a softening of the auto market.
Appearing with the W.D. Packard Concert Band at Packard Music Hall in Warren: Bob McGrath, host of “Sesame Street.” Tickets, $2, $3, and $4.
1969: Youngstown Mayor Anthony Flask notifies the Mahoning Valley Regional Transit Authority that he will seek a $5,000 appropriation from City Council to support the authority’s operations.
At 83, Arch Cubbison of New Castle, Pa., is the dean of area barbershop quartet singing. Cubbison began a music career in the 1920s with a six-piece band that played at Cascade Park.
A $2.27 billion bill to finance education passes the Ohio Senate with one dissenting vote. Although Democrats led a four-hour floor fight against the measure, the lone dissenting vote came from a Republican.
1944: The number of “critically needed” workers in the Youngstown steel district is placed at 700. The Youngstown office of the U.S. Employment Service begins a “buttonholing” campaign for 1,000 women workers at the Atlas Powder plant at Ravenna to fill those openings.
Gladys Saul of Wick Avenue, Youngstown, heaves a rolling pin 55 yards to win a contest at Fort Stevens, Ore., where she is a stenographer.
The Youngstown wage scale is sixth from the top in a survey of Ohio’s eight major metropolitan areas. Youngstown’s average weekly wage is $48.42. Only Columbus and Cincinnati rank lower.