Today is Wednesday, June 28, the 179th day of 2006. There are 186 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, June 28, the 179th day of 2006. There are 186 days left in the year. On this date in 1914, Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, are assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist -- the event that triggers World War I.
In 1836, the fourth president of the United States, James Madison, dies in Montpelier, Va. In 1838, Britain's Queen Victoria is crowned in Westminster Abbey. In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles is signed in France, ending World War I. In 1939, Pan American Airways begins regular trans-Atlantic air service. In 1944, the Republican national convention in Chicago nominates New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for president and Ohio Gov. John W. Bricker for vice president. In 1950, North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea. In 1978, the Supreme Court orders the University of California at Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who'd argued he was a victim of reverse racial discrimination. In 2000, seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits, Elian Gonzalez is returned to his native Cuba.
June 28, 1981: "We're Not Getting Older, We're Getting Better" is the theme of the 136th annual Trumbull County Fair opening at the Expo Center in Bazetta Township.
Some residents of Youngstown's Upper North Side say their neighborhood is deteriorating and the city is doing very little to stop it. The Community Development Agency has no cohesive plan, says Fifth Avenue resident Anna Jean Cushwa.
RMI Inc. is rapidly becoming one of the Mahoning Valley's major industries, with a $30 million expansion plan for its Niles and Ashtabula titanium producing facilities.
June 28, 1966: The Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission tentatively agrees to give the Youngstown Board of Education four acres as the site of a new junior high school to relieve overcrowding at Wilson High School. The land is part of Ipe Field on E. Midlothian Boulevard.
"Popeye," the man who always had a sales pitch as he hustled Vindicators downtown for over 20 years, is dead. Theodore Castellano, 38, died of a heart attack in his room in the Vindy Hotel.
Mrs. Doreen Lucci, a Youngstown homemaker and mother of five, graduates first in her class at the Youngstown Hospital Association School of Nursing.
June 28, 1956: A Civil Aeronautics Board examiner recommends that North Central Airlines Inc. be permitted to buy controlling interest in Lake Central Airlines, one of three airline companies serving the Youngstown Municipal Airport.
First aid by Edward M. Griffiths Jr., Youngstown Country Club golf professional, is credited with saving the life of 16-year-old Robert J. Renner Jr., son of the president of the Renner Brewing Co., after the boy was seriously injured in a traffic accident at the country club. A sports car in which the boy was riding overturned and broken glass severed an artery.
The Rev. John Paul Ashton, who was ordained in Rome and was scheduled to return to the Youngstown Diocese for an assignment, is stricken with polio while in Spain. He is in good condition in a Madrid hospital.
June 28, 1931: Eli Pekich, 43, of Girard is killed almost instantly, and his wife, Catherine, 41, is seriously injured when their auto collided head-on with a streetcar in W. Federal St.
Justice John H. Clarke, who started out as a country boy from Lisbon and became one of Youngstown's most famous citizens, is lauded in an article entitled "Partial Portraits" in the magazine Clevelander.
Capt. Joseph Parilla is in command of machine gun Company H, 145th Regiment, which is leaving Youngstown for two weeks of training at Camp Perry.