Today is Wednesday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2006. There are 193 days left in the year. Summer

Today is Wednesday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2006. There are 193 days left in the year. Summer begins at 8:26 a.m. EDT. On this date in 1788, the U.S. Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify it.
In 1905, French philosopher, author and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre is born in Paris. In 1932, heavyweight Max Schmeling loses a title fight by decision to Jack Sharkey, prompting Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, to exclaim: "We was robbed!" In 1945, during World War II, American soldiers on Okinawa find the body of the Japanese commander, Lt. Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima, who had committed suicide. In 1963, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope takes the name Paul VI. In 1964, civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney disappear in Philadelphia, Miss.; their bodies are found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. In 1973, the Supreme Court rules that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards. In 1982, a jury in Washington, D.C., finds John Hinckley Jr. innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Reagan and three other men. In 1985, scientists announce that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil are those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele. In 2004, the SpaceShipOne rocket plane punches through Earth's atmosphere, then glides to a landing in California's Mojave Desert in the first privately financed manned spaceflight.
June 21, 1981: Up to 125 Youngstown employees stand to lose their jobs within the next two months under the administration's plan to erase a $1.5 million deficit.
Dr. Thomas D.Y. Fok, president of Thomas Fok & amp; Associates, a consulting engineering firm, is elected chairman of the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees.
Two nuns and three laymen are elected to three-year terms on the Diocese of Youngstown Board of Education. They are John Hudak, Rosemary Pfiffner, Patricia De Angelo, Sister Ruth Wolfert and Sister Regina Rogers.
June 21, 1966: Seventeen fire units fight a general alarm fire that destroyed two storage buildings at the Youngstown Foundry and Machine Co. The loss is estimated at $200,000.
Sixteen students, most from Youngstown's Woodrow Wilson High School, are released after a stern lecture and a warning that they now have juvenile court records. The youths were arrested for invading the Craig Beach Amusement Park after hours. Seventeen other youths who are over 18 years old were fined and given suspended jail sentences.
Robert E. Williams, president of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., is named chief executive officer.
Boardman residents are having summer water pressure problems again, trustees say.
June 21, 1956: Construction of a new St. Columba Cathedral costing about $1.7 million will begin in September on the site of the cathedral that was destroyed by fire in 1954. The contract is awarded to Charles Shutrump and Sons Co.
Youngstown Municipal Judge Frank R. Franko charges that he was "used" by Mayor Frank X. Kryzan and Kryzan's political associates to "fix" speeding and other traffic charges against friends of Kryzan's administration.
Youngstown lawmakers push through a $20 supplementary clothing allowance to help pay for summer uniforms that the city's 216 policemen must wear. Mayor Kryzan had vetoed legislation approving payment of $30 per officer.
June 21, 1931: More than 25,000 people mass along Warren streets to see the most colorful and spectacular parade Northeast Ohio has known when the Veterans of Foreign Wars state convention comes to a dramatic close.
A terrific electrical storm at New Castle brings relief after two days of sweltering weather, but a city man is killed. Alex Costika, 50, is crushed when a tree struck by lightning falls on his car as he drove in Jefferson Street.
Youngstown is spending upward of $10,000 a month to feed the poor and hospitalization bills are running at the rate of $100,000, city Finance Director James E. Jones tells Gov. George Whit in appealing for the extension of the Pringle-Roberts relief bill for at least another year.