Today is Wednesday, June 25, the 177th day of 2008. There are 189 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, June 25, the 177th day of 2008. There are 189 days left in the year. On this date in 1950, war breaks out in Korea as forces from the communist North invade the South.

In 1788, the state of Virginia ratifies the U.S. Constitution. In 1807, Napoleon I of France and Russian Czar Alexander I meet near Tilsit to discuss terms for ending war between their empires. In 1876, Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his Seventh Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana. In 1906, architect Stanford White is shot to death atop New York’s Madison Square Garden, which he had designed, by millionaire Harry K. Thaw, the jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit (Thaw is acquitted of murder by reason of insanity). In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is enacted.

June 25, 1983: The FBI and Trumbull Sheriff’s Department are investigating the robbery of the Banc One branch in Bloomfield, where a man made off with an undetermined amount of cash in a brown paper bag.

Henry G. Evans, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Sharon Steel Corp., is honored for 50 years of service to the company during a reception at Oak Tree Country Club.

Vincent Roth, a vice president of Mahoning National Bank, is installed as president of the Downtown Lions Club.

June 25, 1968: The Civil Aeronautics Board approves the merger of Lake Central Airlines, which serves Youngstown, and Allegheny Airlines, putting Youngstown on the schedule of the country’s largest local service operator.

A fire at the T.W. Mulligan Pet Shop, 5462 Mahoning Ave., Austintown, asphyxiated $10,000 worth of animals, birds and fish. Only two poodles, two rabbits and a few tropical fish survived.

Youngstown public and Diocesan schools will share a $250,000 federal grant approved for the “focus on Inner City Social Studies” project being conducted at Kent State University.

June 25, 1958: Avery C. Adams, former Youngstowner now president of Jones Laughlin Steel Corp., says there is increasing evidence of a good recovery in steel in the last half of the year.

Several hundred residents of the city’s southwest corner jam City Council chambers in a unified demonstration opposing a proposed zone change to allow a new shopping center on Canfield Road, just east of Cornersburg.

Youngstown Planning Director Edwin H. Folk tells members of St. John’s Episcopal Church that a change in public opinion is needed to open new areas of the city to housing for Negroes who are being displaced by highway construction and slum clearance.

June 25, 1933: About 500 former Ursuline pupils attend the June Homecoming reception at the Wick Avenue campus, with Archbishop Edward A. Mooney of Japan as the guest of honor.

The first round in a struggle to see whether workers of Mahoning Valley steel mills and other industries organize under the direction of their respective companies or under the leadership of the American Federation of Labor is under way.

Property values are moving ahead, say many of Youngstown’s leading real estate operators and bankers, as a result of two recent enactments, one by the U.S. Congress and one by the Ohio Legislature, designed to help homeowners avoid foreclosure.