Today is Friday, June 30, the 181st day of 2006. There are 184 days left in the year. On this date in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signs into law the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat
Today is Friday, June 30, the 181st day of 2006. There are 184 days left in the year. On this date in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signs into law the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
In 1859, French acrobat Blondin (born Jean Francois Gravelet) crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope as 5,000 spectators watch. In 1921, President Harding appoints former President Taft chief justice of the United States. In 1934, Adolf Hitler begins his "blood purge" of political and military leaders in Germany. In 1936, the novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell is published in New York. In 1963, Pope Paul VI is crowned the 262nd head of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1971, a Soviet space mission ends in tragedy when three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 are found dead inside their spacecraft after it returns to Earth.
June 30, 1981: Members of the Wilmington Area School District abandon discussion of closing three elementary schools, leaving the issue to be taken up by the new school board that will be in place in January.
Ruth Green of Champion is 4-H Queen of the Trumbull County Fair.
Judge Martin P. Joyce orders Mahoning County commissioners to add $82,000 to the juvenile court's 1981 budget, or he will take the commissioners back to the 9th District Court of Appeals in Akron.
June 30, 1966: An ordinance creating a Government Operations Commission is submitted to Youngstown City Council by 5th Ward Councilman Jack Hunter.
The old Procter Home in Boardman Township is burned to the ground to make way for an $18 million shopping plaza planned by developer William Cafaro on Route 7 across from the Boardman High School.
June 30, 1956: An intensive search by 87 state highway patrolmen and 200 other policemen, deputies and constables of a square-mile area near Warren for the elusive triple killer, Albert Wilson, finds no trace of the fugitive.
The gigantic task of shutting down the Youngstown district's multimillion-dollar steel plants in anticipation of a threatened strike by the USW is in full swing. An estimated 20,000 area workers have already been laid-off as the strike deadline looms.
June 30, 1931: C.E. Yacoli, a member of the diversified industries committee of the Chamber of Commerce, says a metal stamping company from the East and a shoe company are looking to build plants in the Youngstown district.
John U. Anderson is named president of the Union Savings and Trust Co. of Warren.