Years Ago

June 25, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Friday, June 25, the 176th day of 2010. There are 189 days left in the year.

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1788: Virginia ratifies the U.S. Constitution.

1876: Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his Seventh Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.

1910: President William Howard Taft signs the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which makes it illegal to transport women across state lines for “immoral” purposes.

The ballet “The Firebird” with music by Igor Stravinsky is premiered in Paris by the Ballets Russes.

1938: The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is enacted.

1942: Some 1,000 British Royal Air Force bombers raid Bremen, Germany, during World War II.

1950: War breaks out in Korea as forces from the communist North invade the South.

1962: The Supreme Court, in Engel v. Vitale, rules that recital of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools is unconstitutional.

1973: Former White House Counsel John W. Dean begins testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee.

1990: African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets with President George H.W. Bush at the White House.

2009: Death claims Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” in Los Angeles at age 50 and actress Farrah Fawcett in Santa Monica, Calif. at age 62.

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1985: Ohio Atty. Gen. Anthony Celebreeze files suit against two Youngstown auto dealers charging them with rolling back mileage readings on vehicles.

A team from the General Services Administration will visit Youngstown to meet with Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro to discuss possible sites for a proposed $10 million federal building/courthouse.

A state-commissioned study on the danger of old mine shafts in Mineral Ridge is due to be delivered to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Ann G. Harris, a YSU geology professor, says there have been more emergency projects in Mineral Ridge than any other area.

President Reagan’s warning to avoid air travel to Athens because of what he called a lack of security there, is causing a disruption for Youngstown travel agents as many prospective travelers cancel plans for trips to Greece.

1970: The Rev. Charles Koen, executive director of the United Front in Cairo, Ill., officially opens the first annual African-American Cultural Weekend at South Field House.

The General Motors Corp.’s huge Fisher Body-Chevrolet plant at Lordstown is poised to start production of its new midget car, the Vega 2300.

Starring in “Showboat” at the Kenley Players in the Packard Music Hall in Warren are Andy Devine and Ann Blyth.

1960: Youngstown Municipal Judge Don L. Hanni Jr. suspends fines of $5 and costs for two men, 19 and 20 years old, arrested for tossing illegal fireworks from their cars.

County Judge Edgar G. Diehm sentences two 16-year-old Canfield youths to a weekend in the juvenile detention home for exploding a fireworks bomb in a North Lima mailbox.

Billy Pew, a 2-year-old Lake Milton boy, was taken for dead after firemen fished him from a cesspool at his home, but after being put in an ambulance he began to retch, was given oxygen and is resting in Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital.

The Mahoning Chapter, American Red Cross, will annex Hubbard Township to its jurisdiction from the Trumbull Chapter. Hubbard is 19 miles from the Trumbull chapter house, five miles from Mahoning’s.

1935: Fire Chief Harry Callan, chairman of the special gifts committee, announces $1,766 has already been pledged to the Ursuline High School Guild campaign.

The New York World Telegram reports that the Ford Motor co. Is experimenting on a four cylinder Diesel powered car that would sell for $300 and compete with anew Japanese car that is scheduled to hit the market in January.