Today is Saturday, June 19, the 171st day of 2004. There are 195 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, June 19, the 171st day of 2004. There are 195 days left in the year. On this date in 964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved by the Senate, 73-27, after surviving a lengthy filibuster.
In 1586, English colonists sail from Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America. In 1862, slavery is outlawed in U.S. territories. In 1903, baseball's "Iron Horse," Hall-of-Famer Lou Gehrig, is born in New York City. In 1910, Father's Day is celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Wash. In 1917, during World War I, King George V orders the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames. The family takes the name "Windsor." In 1934, the Federal Communications Commission is created; it replaces the Federal Radio Commission. In 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y. In 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova returns to Earth after spending nearly three days as the first woman in space. In 1977, Pope Paul VI proclaims a 19th-century Philadelphia bishop, John Neumann, the first male U.S. saint. In 1982, in a case that galvanizes the Asian-American community, Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American, is beaten to death outside a nightclub in Highland Park, Mich., by two auto workers who later receive probation for manslaughter.
June 19, 1979: Anchor Motor Freight employees vote 293 to 76 to remain off the job, risking fines and possible jail time for defying a federal judge's order that they return to work. Wives of the drivers maintain the picket line at the Lordstown terminal
President Carter's wage and price guidelines are ineffective in helping area residents and business make ends meet, civic, business and labor leaders and area resident tell a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee during a public hearing in Youngstown.
The Army Corps of Engineers gives preliminary approval for construction of a giant steel plant by U.S. Steel Corp. in Conneaut.
June 19, 1964: Expansion of the Youngstown Police Department that would cost more than $270,000 for personnel alone is recommended by the International Association of Police Chiefs, which conducted a $20,000 study commissioned by the city. The report suggests the creation of two assistant police chief posts, 12 additional lieutenants, 13 additional sergeants and 10 additional clerk-stenographers. The department has 205 patrolmen, four policewomen, 33 detectives, 18 sergeants, seven lieutenants, seven captains, a detective chief and a police chief.
The Treasury Department says it has doubled production of Kennedy half dollars in recent months. By June 30, 90 million of the coins will have been minted, about the number that had been anticipated for the entire year.
Walter T. Cook of Canfield is named assistant superintendent of the inspection department of Republic Steel Corp. and Paul Wigton of Youngstown is named assistant superintendent of the metallurgical department.
June 19, 1954: Mrs. Emma Modeland is honored at a dinner at the Youngstown Country Club as she retires from the Visiting Nurses Association of Youngstown, which she headed for nearly 40 years.
Youngstown Airways Inc. is awarded a five-year contract to rent hangars and render related services at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Mahoning County voters will be asked to approve a $3 million bond issue on the November ballot, which would provide the local share for a $10 million countywide bridge building program.
June 19, 1929: Eugene Stern, 22, of 635 W. Federal St., Youngstown, drowns in the Idora Park bathing pool, which was crowded with bathers seeking relief from the 94-degree heat wave.
Lake Glacier in Mill Creek Park will be closed indefinitely to bathers due to seepage from sewers, says F.E. Hughes, superintendent of the park.
Two monkeys that have been missing from Idora Park since the first of the season are reported to be in the Bears Den section of Mill Creek Park. The animals were seen by picnickers, trying to steal food. "They will probably come back after the picnic season is over and they get hungry," says park manager Rex D. Billings.