Today is Friday, June 13th, the 164th day of 2003. There are 201 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Friday, June 13th, the 164th day of 2003. There are 201 days left in the year. On this date in 1966, the Supreme Court issues its landmark Miranda decision, ruling that criminal suspects have to be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police.
In 1888, Congress creates the Department of Labor. In 1900, China's Boxer Rebellion targeting foreigners, as well as Chinese Christians, erupts into full-scale violence. In 1927, aviation hero Charles Lindbergh is honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City. In 1944, Germany begins launching flying-bomb attacks against Britain during World War II. In 1967, President Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
June 13, 1978: The plan to purchase and operate Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.'s Campbell Works under community/worker ownership is economically practicable, given moderate sales and productivity, a national prominent steel industry analyst says.
A wilderness training expedition ends in the drowning of 12 schoolboys and a teacher after their canoes overturned during a storm on a lake in northwest Quebec. The boys were from St. John's School, a private Anglican boarding School near Toronto.
The Mahoning County Board of Revision turns down Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.'s application for reduction in taxable property values of almost $8.7 million for the year 1977.
Downtown merchant Larry Silver will renovate the Kelly & amp; Cohen building on Federal Plaza to operate a full-line men's store. He is the proprietor of Silver's Vogue Shop.
June 13, 1963: Ordinances calling for the sale of $569,500 in bonds to cover equipment and improvement costs for which Youngstown doesn't have the money will come before city council. It will be the second year in a row the council floats a sizable bond issue for expenses traditionally covered by the general fund.
Four teen-agers are captured after they discharged a blank revolver at a passing motorist in Liberty Township and sped off in Tibbetts-Wick Road. The car was stopped about 20 minutes later, based on a description and partial license number provided by the man at whom the gun was aimed.
"Cleopatra," the $40 million film, comes to Broadway for a celebrity-packed world premier that had a crowd of 8,000 cheering, but critics delivering mixed reviews.
June 13, 1953: Nearly 43,000 Youngstown district basic steelworkers receive an 8-cent hourly pay raise and another 12,000 will likely get a similar raise in a few days.
Workmen in the Youngstown district's steel mill run into a traditional summer difficulty for the first time this year, hot dirty Mahoning River water causing an unpleasant stench in the mills. The river water climbs briefly to 100 degrees, cutting its cooling efficiency.
The Monday Musical Club completes its annual campaign with the sale of 1,934 tickets for the 1953-54 concert season. It was the most successful drive in its 56-year history.
June 13, 1928: A 12-year-old Pointview Ave. girl is in the Mahoning County detention home and her 40 year-old father is jailed after a county probation officer interrupted an arranged marriage between the girl and a 31-year-old man.
William H. Peterson, former city plumbing inspector, pleads guilty to a charge of embezzling city funds and is sentenced to one to 20 years in the state penitentiary and fined $82, which is twice the amount he was accused of embezzling in the single count to which he pleaded. State auditors say about $16,000 is missing from the years during which Peterson was in charge of collecting plumbing permit fees.
Kansas City police wielding billy clubs block the entrance to the convention hall to angry mobs of farmers opposed to the nomination of Herbert Hoover as the Republican presidential candidate.
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