Today is Friday, June 27, the 178th day of 2003. There are 187 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Friday, June 27, the 178th day of 2003. There are 187 days left in the year. On this date in 1950, President Truman orders the Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict following a call from the U.N. Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
In 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, are killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill. In 1847, New York and Boston are linked by telegraph wires. In 1893, the New York stock market crashes. In 1942, the FBI announces the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island. In 1957, more than 500 people are killed when Hurricane "Audrey" slams through coastal Louisiana and Texas. In 1969, patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, clash with police in an incident considered the birth of the gay rights movement. In 1973, former White House counsel John W. Dean tells the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House.
June 27, 1978: The Youngstown Police Department Strike Force sweeps down on four adult book stores in the city, arresting four persons and confiscating pornographic films.
Dramatic increases in productivity could be achieved in the community/worker owned steel plant being proposed by the Ecumenical Coalition of the Mahoning Valley, an independent experts concludes.
Severe storms sweep through the Mahoning Valley, but damage is confined to some fallen trees and street flooding from heavy rain.
A stocky gunman wearing sunglasses and a felt hat herds three persons into a back room and robs the Associates Financial Services at 34 S. Mercer St.
June 27, 1963: A federal grand jury in Cleveland indicts former Youngstown Law Director S.S. Feckett on one count of extortion and seven Youngstown area pinball machine operators on multiple counts of tax evasion. Indicted are Joe, Elias and Nicholas Alexander and Charles, Ronald and Orlando Carabbia, plus Charles' wife, Dorothy. The indictments are announced by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
Airport director Russell G. Mock tells Youngstown City Council that contracts have been signed for the first two industrial hangars at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
An Ellenwood Ave. man charged with drag racing after a 1962 accident in which Horace Beauchemin, 40, was killed is found guilty of speeding and fined $50 and has his license suspended for 90 days.
June 27, 1953: The Air Force discloses during House Appropriations Committee hearings that it intends to establish a reserve training center at the Youngstown Municipal Airport, but no arrangements have been made with the city or details made available.
A second woman charged with ballot tampering during November election in Youngstown's 3rd Ward is placed on five years' probation.
The Mahoning Valley's supply of stored water drops as a result of dry weather as large quantities are released to lower the temperature of the Mahoning River and give industrial workers relief from sweltering working conditions. The river's temperature peaked at 100 degrees.
June 27, 1928: New York City insurance men are studying efforts in Youngstown to wipe out ambulance chasing. New York has already begun filing fraud charges against lawyers and some have been disbarred.
George L. Oles, downtown merchant and ex-mayor of Youngstown, says he will launch a recall of the city's mayor and entire city council unless a parking ban is lifted from Boardman and Phelps streets.
Ohio's delegation to the Ohio Democratic National Convention votes to switch all 48 votes from former Sen. Atlee Pomerene to New York Gov. Alfred E. Smith, virtually assuring Smith of the party's presidential nomination on the first ballot.