Years Ago

June 14, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, June 14, the 165th day of 2010. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1775: The Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, is created.

1777: The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopts the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.

1801: Former American Revolutionary War General and notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold dies in London.

1846: A group of U.S. settlers in Sonoma proclaims the Republic of California.

1919: John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown embark on the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. (Flying a Vickers Vimy biplane bomber, they take off from St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada and arrive 161/2 hours later in Clifden, Ireland.)

1940: German troops enter Paris during World War II; the same day, the Nazis begin transporting prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.

1943: The Supreme Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, rules that children in public schools cannot be forced to salute the flag of the United States.

1954: The words “under God” are added to the Pledge of Allegiance.

1990: The Supreme Court upholds, 6-3, police checkpoints that examine drivers for signs of intoxication.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: The Koppers Co. is closing its 70-year-old tar-processing plant at 1359 Logan Ave., virtually ending an era in Youngstown industrial history and putting 69 employees out of work.

Susan O’Keefe, president of the Trumbull County Mothers Against Drunk Driving, tells city officials that Warren has a reputation for being soft on drunken drivers.

1970: President Richard Nixon appoints former Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton to be chairman of the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest. The commission will have access to the investigative facilities of the FBI in probing unrest at Kent State and other universities.

A Lowellville woman who needs a $16,000 kidney transplant to survive is being helped by villagers who have established the Barbara Bisconti Kidney Fund at Lowellville Savings and Banking Co.

Nearly 600 Mahoning County youths from poor families will have summer jobs through the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

1960: Meals at North Side Hospital are served on paper plates as the hospital copes with low water pressure while city crews work to repair a break in a 16-inch water main.

Thieves steal $40 in receipts from ticket sales to a Cleveland Indians baseball game from the No. 11 fire station on Poland Avenue while firemen are fighting a blaze at the A.A. Waste Paper warehouse.

1935: The Mahoning Valley Chapter, 37th Division, Veterans Association, calls for an investigation into the death of Joseph Miller, 20, of Youngstown, who died after being put on a bus and sent home from the Mansfield Reformatory.

Fifty-six men and women graduate from Youngstown College. Dr. Alfred H. Upham, president of Miami University, delivers the commencement address.

Gov. Martin Davey signs a school foundation bill that will provide $30 in state funds for every elementary pupil and $45 for every high school student. Mahoning County schools will receive more than $1.5 million.