Today is Sunday, June 29, the 180th day of 2003. There are 185 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Sunday, June 29, the 180th day of 2003. There are 185 days left in the year. On this date in 1776, the Virginia state constitution is adopted, and Patrick Henry made governor.
In 1767, the British Parliament approves the Townshend Revenue Acts, which imposes import duties on certain goods shipped to America. Colonists bitterly protest the Acts, which were repealed in 1770. In 1946, British authorities arrest more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine in an attempt to stamp out alleged terrorism. In 1949, the government of South Africa enacts a ban against racially-mixed marriages. In 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission votes against reinstating Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer's access to classified information. In 1966, the United States bombs fuel storage facilities near the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong. In 1967, Jerusalem is reunified as Israel removes barricades separating the Old City from the Israeli sector. In 1970, the United States ends a two-month military offensive into Cambodia. In 1972, the Supreme Court rules the death penalty, as it is being meted out, could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment." The ruling prompts states to revise their capital punishment laws. In 1988, the Supreme Court upholds the independent counsel law. In 1992, a divided Supreme Court rules that women have a constitutional right to abortion, but the justices also weaken the right as defined by the Roe vs. Wade decision.
June 29, 1978: Youngstown's crime rate is running counter to the national trend, increasing 14.7 percent during the first quarter of 1978, according to FBI statistics. The national average showed a decrease of 4 percent.
The Trumbull Supply Co. agrees to spend $2.4 million to relocate its Youngstown operations to an industrial park the city proposes to build along the Mahoning River with $1.9 million in federal money.
A deeply divided Supreme Court orders the University of California to dismantle its special admissions program and to admit Allan Bakke to its medical school. Bakke filed suit claiming that the university had denied him admission because he is white.
June 29, 1963: "The Youngstown area rackets indictments are the first example we've had [in Cleveland] of the government's new crime busting technique," says U.S. Atty. Merle McCurdy, "and in so far as Youngstown is concerned, this is only the beginning."
"The Steel King," one of the last passenger trains on the Pittsburgh-Cleveland run of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad rolls into Youngstown on time, despite an unscheduled stop east of Edinburg, Pa., near the Mount Jackson crossing. Engineer G.D. Bickerton was rolling along at 68 mph when he spotted something on the tracks, he slammed on the brakes and brought the train to a stop inches from a child playing on the tracks.
Youngstown passes the 10 percent mark in land purchases for the River Bend urban renewal project as the Board of Control approves prices on eight more parcels in the clearance area.
June 29, 1953: More than 1,000 persons attend a parade staged in Lisbon by "brothers of the brush," men who have grown beards and mustaches in observance of the village's sesquicentennial celebration. Smooth-shaven residents who failed to purchase "shavers' permits" were brought to justice in a kangaroo court presided over by Justice of the Peace Felix P. Butch.
A resolution to "fight the Communistic conquest" and defend Christianity and Christian culture is adopted by 250 delegates to the national convention of the Ukrainian Orthodox League being held at Hotel Pick-Ohio and Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Marine Captain Ted William, one-time Boston Red Sox outfield, is on his way home for Korea for treatment of an ear ailment that grounded him after 39 missions in Panther jet fighter bombers over North Korea.
M.M. Malmer, vice president and general manager of the Youngstown Municipal Railway Co., is appointed general manager of Akron Transportation Co. He will continue to hold the position of general manager of the Youngstown company.
June 29, 1928: In the most extensive list of transfers and assignments in the Cleveland Catholic diocese in many years, Bishop Joseph Schrembs announces that the Rev. Maurice F. Griffin, the Rev. A.C. Sutter, the Rev. T.I. Gaffney and the Rev. C.J. McLaughlin of Youngstown will assume new pastorates.
The liquor conspiracy charged against six men in connection with the $50,000 still seized on the Aaron Schontz farm is purely a local case, A.E. Bernsteen, U.S. district attorney at Cleveland says.
New York Gov. Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic presidential nominee, sends the convention a telegram in which he calls for fundamental changes in the nation's liquor prohibition laws. The dry law, he says, encourages bootlegging and corruption.