YEARS AGO

June 24, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, June 24, the 175th day of 2010. There are 190 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1807: A grand jury in Richmond, Va., indicts former Vice President Aaron Burr on charges of treason and high misdemeanor (he is later acquitted).

1908: Former President Grover Cleveland, dies in Princeton, N.J., at age 71.

1910: Italian automaker Alfa Romeo is founded in Milan.

1948: Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the western allies to organize the Berlin Airlift.

1968: “Resurrection City,” a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People’s March on Washington, D.C., is closed down by authorities.

1983: The space shuttle Challenger — carrying America’s first woman in space, Sally K. Ride — coasts to a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Charles J. Bannon rejects a bid by a group of New Middletown residents seeking to remove village Mayor Michael Klim from office.

Dorothy M. Walsh, 88, former director of the Arms Museum, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital. She began working with the late Wilford Arms at the former Realty Trust Co. in 1919 after graduating from Hall’s business college.

1970: Army Spec. 4 Donald E. Layfield of Leavittsburg is reported killed in an ambush in Cambodia while on night patrol.

Mayor Jack C. Hunter warns that Youngstown’s urban renewal program will soon be in serious trouble if City Council fails to vacate portions of two streets on the northeast side to permit construction of a Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority building.

1960:Michaelle Kennedy of Newton Falls is elected attorney general of the Buckeye Girls State in Columbus.

Gambler Joseph J. “Fats” Aiello is arrested for loitering outside the Purple Cow across from the police station on the day after Frank Watters takes over as Youngstown’s police chief.

1935: A firebug sets a blaze at the Hazel Hotel that does $2,000 damage, but is controlled from spreading to the sleeping rooms by quick action by firemen.

An order for 1,000 tons of reinforcing steel and $70,000 worth of window sashes for the Cedar-Central housing project in Cleveland is providing work at the Truscon Steel Co. in Youngstown.

Youngstown Police Prosecutor W.B. Spagnola tells Eveyln Sheldon, state factory inspector, that “there are more sweatshops in Youngstown than ever before.”