Today is Tuesday, June 23, the 174th day of 2009. There are 191 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, June 23, the 174th day of 2009. There are 191 days left in the year. On this date in 1969, Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States by the man he is succeeding, Earl Warren.

In 1757, forces of the East India Company led by Robert Clive win the Battle of Plassey, which effectively marks the beginning of British colonial rule in India. In 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for his “Type-Writer.” In 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Authority is established. In 1947, the Senate joins the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, designed to limit the power of organized labor. In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser is elected president of Egypt. In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin hold the first of two meetings at Glassboro State College in New Jersey. In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discuss a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation sparks Nixon’s resignation in 1974.) In 1985, all 329 people aboard an Air India Boeing 747 are killed when the plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland, after a bomb widely believed to have been planted by Sikh separatists explodes.

June 23, 1984: The last steel beam is bolted into place atop the 45-story Sohio building under construction in downtown Cleveland.

President Reagan says he disagrees with a senior marine general who said a limited conventional war with the Soviet Union in this generation is “almost inevitable.”

Ursuline Sister Marcia Welsh leaves for a nine-day stay in Nicaragua as part of the Witness for Peace program.

June 23, 1969: Smooth-working thieves open the main safe at the Youngstown Humane Society in the county jail and office building on W. Boardman Street over the weekend and make off with $4,000 in cash.

Ralph Gaudio, 47, a Youngstown parolee, is caught by Georgia police using bloodhounds after a gang of burglars shot their way out of a post office they entered in DeKalb County northeast of Atlanta. One other burglar was captured and two are believed to have escaped.

Thieves burn open a safe at the Holiday Bowl, 77 Youngstown-Poland Road, and escape with an undetermined sum of money.

June 23, 1959: Mahoning County Commissioner John Palermo calls for the agency responsible for the new “suicide curve” on McCartney Road to “take corrective action immediately” after Margaret Berry, 75, of Dunkirk, N.Y., is killed when a car driven by her husband strikes a steel utility pole at McCartney Road and Oak Street.

Thomas Mulligan, operator of the Burkey Road Bird Farm, warns children in the Austintown area not to attempt to befriend or capture an eight-month old ringtail monkey that escaped from the farm. The monkey is not tame and is capable of inflicting a painful bite.

Warren Safety Service Director Joseph Wyndham testifies during a hearing on the suspension of Police Chief Manley English that English told him on the day after gangster Mike Farah was accused of attacking Trumbull GOP chairman Jean Blair, “It will be well if you stay out of this. I’ll handle it.”

June 23, 1934: A platform urging a shorter work week and work day and that candidates for the state Legislature back strict liquor control laws is passed by the Mahoning County Republican Party.

Colorado’s lethal gas chamber claims its first victim when William Cody Kelley is executed for the slaying of Russell Browning, a hog farmer. Kelley dies in about 30 seconds after inhaling a wreath of white fumes created by 12 poison pills dropped into a pail of water in the air tight chamber.

The Youngstown Clearing House Association, reorganized by four Youngstown banks, announces a reduction in interest rates of one half to 1 percent for all member banks, bring rates on deposits down to 21‚Ñ2 percent.

A barn on the farm of George Brooks at Messerly Road and Cornersburg-Canfield Road is destroyed by fire during a lightning storm. Two horses die in the blaze.