Years Ago

June 21, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2010. There are 193 days left in the year. Day. Summer arrives at 7:28 a.m. Eastern time.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1932: Heavyweight Max Schmeling loses a title fight rematch in New York by decision to Jack Sharkey, prompting Schmeling’s manager, Joe Jacobs, to exclaim: “We was robbed!”

1963: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope takes the name Paul VI.

1964: Civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney disappear in Philadelphia, Miss.; their bodies are found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.

1982: A jury in Washington, D.C. finds John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three other men.

1989: A sharply divided Supreme Court rules that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: Memos show that U.S. Highway Administration officials in Columbus knew that an aggregate from Mercer County had failed after being used on Pennsylvania roads but still sanctioned its use on a $10 million resurfacing project of I-76 and I-80 in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

Louisiana Pacific Corp. purchases Pilgrim Extrusion Inc. in Boardman, leaving 89 workers at the plant in limbo.

General Motors Corp. confirms that it has asked Davis International Inc. to acquire and renovate the Commuter Aircraft Corp. plant at the Youngstown Municipal Airport and lease it to the Packard Electric Division of GM.

1970: Rollins College of Winter Park, Fla., wins the NCAA College Division Tournament held at the Avalon and Avalon Lakes courses in Warren. Gary McCord of the University of California, Riverside, wins the individual championship.

Trumbull Memorial Hospital’s School of Nursing graduates 42 members of the 57th graduating class during ceremonies at Western Reserve High School auditorium.

1960: Youngstown is described as “steel’s sick city” in a lengthy article by George J. Church, staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

Census figures show Mahoning and Trumbull Counties grew 21 percent in population, from 416,544 in 1950 to 507,062 in 1960.

Dr. Walter C. Garland, superintendent of Alliance schools, is elected assistant superintendent of the Youngstown schools by the board of education.

Joseph W. Gottleib, a self-described guardian of taxpayer rights, begins circulating petitions for the recall of Youngstown Mayor Frank R. Franko.

1935: Plans to convert the municipal hospital into a psychopathic hospital gain impetus as Mayor Mark E. Moore offers to lease the building to the county commissioners for $1 per year.

“Bug” houses are doing business as usual in Youngstown, despite recent gambling raids by police.

Col. Charles A. Lindbergh turns inventor a the Rockefeller Institute and announces the development of an artificial heart and lung machine that can keep parts of the body alive after death.