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June 19, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, June 19, the 170th day of 2010. There are 195 days left in the year.

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1862: Slavery is outlawed in U.S. territories.

1865: Union troops commanded by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrive in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War is over, and that all remaining slaves in Texas are free.

1910: The first-ever Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Wash. (The idea for the observance is credited to Sonora Louise Smart Dodd.)

1917: During World War I, King George V orders the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames; the family takes the name “Windsor.”

1934: The Federal Communications Commission is created; it replaces the Federal Radio Commission.

1938: Four dozen people are killed when a railroad bridge in Montana collapses, sending a train known as the Olympian hurtling into Custer Creek.

1953: Julius Rosenberg, 35, and his wife, Ethel, 37, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y.

1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved by the Senate, 73-27, after surviving a lengthy filibuster.

1977: Pope Paul VI proclaims a 19th-century Philadelphia bishop, John Neumann, the first male U.S. saint.

1986: University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias, the first draft pick of the Boston Celtics, suffers a fatal cocaine-induced seizure.

1999: Author Stephen King is seriously injured when he is struck by a van driven by Bryan Smith on a two-lane highway in North Lovell, Maine.

Britain’s Prince Edward marries commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones in Windsor, England.

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1985: Ehud Olmert, a member of Israel’s Knesset, in Youngstown to speak at an Israel Bonds fund-raiser, says he is optimistic that an agreement can be reached to free 40 hostages from a hijacked TWA jet who are being held by Shiite Muslims in Beirut.

Work begins on an emergency $471,000 reconditioning project on the Mahoning Avenue Bridge designed to get the span in good enough condition to reopen to automobiles. It has been closed for a year and will eventually be replaced, but not for at least five years.

San Diego left-hander Dave Dravecky throws a three-hit shutout against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Padres win, 4-0.

1970: Probate Court Judge Charles Henderson approves the adoption of Jill Anne, two-year-old daughter of Miss Helen M. Schmidt of Youngstown, one of the first adoptions by a single person in Mahoning County.

Youngstown Patrolman Clarence Sexton, 41, is injured when his cruiser is demolished after being struck broadside by a car at South Avenue and East Boardman Street

Mayor Jack C. Hunter says he does not believe the preliminary reports of federal census figures that show Youngstown’s population dropping from 166,689 to 139,903.

1960: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan introduces legislation in Congress to authorize construction of a national aquarium in Washington, D.C.

Patricia Bannon of Youngstown and Randall Emrich of Hubbard are crowned queen and king at the Explorer Scouts Spring Dance at the Pick-Ohio Ballroom.

1935: President Roosevelt has given no indication to Ohio’s senators, Vic Donahey and Robert J. Bulkley, as to when he will release the $5 million for a Mahoning-Beaver canal.

Trial runs are being made on the tandem 76-inch cold rolling strip mill at the Campbell plant of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.

Gov. Davey signs the $97 million biennium budget after vetoing items totally $9 million.