Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Today is Tuesday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2010. There are 192 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1807: A British frigate, the HMS Leopard, attacks and boards the American ship USS Chesapeake off the Virginia coast in search of Royal Navy deserters.
1870: The United States Department of Justice is created.
1911: Britain’s King George V is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1940: During World War II, Adolf Hitler gains a stunning victory as France is forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overrun Paris.
1941: Germany invades the Soviet Union during World War II.
1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the “GI Bill of Rights.”
1945: The World War II battle for Okinawa ends with an Allied victory.
1969: Singer-actress Judy Garland dies in London at age 47.
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1985: Trumbull County commissioners are looking for private nursing homes to take the last 20 residents of the Trumbull County nursing home so that the home in Brookfield can be closed.
U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. criticizes the Reagan administration’s lack of action in freeing 40 American hostages being held by Shiite Muslims in Beirut. “He has done nothing. We lost 230 Marines in Beirut. ... What has he done to protect us?” Traficant says.
1970: Richard F. Viering, 35, former superintendent of the Brunswick public schools, is named superintendent of the 25,000-student Youngstown Public School District, succeeding W.W. Zinser.
An abandoned strip mine lake containing millions of gallons of acid water which had been polluting Meander Reservoir bursts, sending torrents of water over the countryside along Western Reserve Road.
More than 500 youths living in poverty receive summer jobs in the Neighborhood Youth Corps.
1960: The city has until Nov. 1 to decide whether to match a $95,000 federal grant to increase ramp and apron space at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Three Youngstown policemen are overcome by deadly sulphur dioxide fumes from a fumigation candle when they attempt to enter a gas-filled South Side apartment in search of possible victims. Sgt. Thomas Baker and Patrolmen Joseph Mayer and Thomas Beardman are treated at South Side Hospital.
1935: Dr. George M. Wilcox, president of the Youngstown Area Citizens Association, says Youngstown is becoming a rackets-ridden city as citizens show little respect for the law and police refuse to crack down on gambling.
Steel production in Youngstown reaches 42 percent of capacity, largely due to a gain in miscellaneous orders.
Judge Lynn D. Griffith rules in Warren that a man may be charged with burglary of his own home after a man climbs through the window of his home and attacks his wife three days after they are divorced.
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