Today is Tuesday, June 27, the 178th day of 2006. There are 187 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Tuesday, June 27, the 178th day of 2006. 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 1944, during World War II, American forces complete their capture of the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans. 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. In 1980, President Carter signs legislation reviving draft registration. In 1986, the International Court of Justice at The Hague rules that the United States has broken international law and violated the sovereignty of Nicaragua by aiding the contras. In 1991, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black to sit on the nation's highest court, announces his retirement.
June 27, 1981: Sharon Steel Corp. announces plans to invest $15 million in an upgrade of its Farrell plant.
Three unidentified daredevils climb the 1,428-foot WKBN transmitting tower and parachute from the tower, which is reportedly the highest point in the state.
The Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission reverses its earlier decision and will open all seven city swimming pools.
June 27, 1966: A master plan for a proposed children's zoo in Mill Creek Park is to be presented to the Junior League, sponsoring group for the project, in early July. The zoo could be a reality within two years.
Arson is suspected in a $165,000 fire that destroys the contents of the King Furniture Store on Niles Road SE in Warren.
An Austintown sailor, Fireman Apprentice John P. Jakubec, 20, is credited with spotting a fire and sounding the alarm aboard the mine sweeper U.S.S. Stalwart in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
June 27, 1956: Warren Police Chief Manley English says that fingerprints taken from woodwork in a house in Braceville which was broken into are positively those of Alfred Wilson, the fugitive triple murderer.
Youngstown is awarded second place honors in its population group in the 1955 All-Ohio Traffic Safety Contest sponsored by the governor's traffic safety committee and highway safety department.
Playing at the Palace Theater: "Trapeze," starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida.
June 27, 1931: Some 675 guests sit down to a dinner of chicken and noodles at the Golden Jubilee of Columbiana High alumni at the old Firestone homestead east of Columbiana. The host was multimillionaire Harvey Firestone.
Virginia Gov. Pollard grants a pardon to Jesse Strauderman of 537 Foster St., Youngstown, who had lived a quiet, trouble-free life for 12 years after walking away from a Richmond prison where he was serving a two-year term for stealing clothes from a boxcar. Strauderman, who turned himself in after being identified as a fugitive, is expected home within a day. Virginia paid for his train ticket.
Attorney Clyde Osborne, who represents 1,600 people who signed petitions seeking the ouster of Mahoning County Prosecutor Ray Thomas, says he expects to call 30 to 40 witnesses for a hearing.