Years ago

June 23, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, June 23, the 174th day of 2010. There are 191 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1931: Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from New York on a round-the-world flight that lasts eight days and 15 hours.

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.

1960: The Food and Drug Administration formally approves Enovid as the first oral contraceptive for sale in the U.S.

1969: Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States by the man he was succeeding, Earl Warren.

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 on board.

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1985: Trumbull County distributes overtime checks totaling $41,381 to employees in the sheriff’s department and county engineer, sanitary engineer and health department for work done in the aftermath of the May 31 tornadoes.

Helen Tomko, the Youngstown area’s first liver transplant, celebrates the first anniversary of the operation that changed her life.

1970: The Youngstown Board of Education approves a 10-year, $3.5 million reorganization plan during which one new school and two additions will be constructed and seven buildings will be closed.

Sixteen projects for Youngstown totaling $3.5 million are included in a revised distribution of State Bond Issue 1 money from Mahoning County.

Ursuline’s Ed Menster shoots a 72 at Fonderlac Country Club to win the first annual Youngstown Pro-Youth Classic, besting runner up Rick Kale of Cardinal Mooney by three strokes.

1960: Fire destroys the front end of the Stambaugh Thompson store and damages the Woolworth store in the Youngstown-Poland Road shopping center in Struthers.

Mayor Frank R. Franko names Lt. Frank Watters chief of police, replacing Peter S. Venorsky, who will head the juvenile bureau. The shake up follows two unsolved gangland shootings in six months.

1935: In an effort to assure the continuation of the Ursuline High School that was established at the beginning of the depression in 1930, the Ursuline Sisters are seeking 20,000 permanent sponsors who pledge at least $1 each

Supporters of the “bug” say the $40,000 that Youngstowners are estimated to be betting each week is keeping hundreds of bug men off relief rolls, but Sheriff Ralph Elser says that kind of money is going to prove a corrupting influence on elected officials.