Years Ago

June 26, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, June 26, the 177th day of 2010. There are 188 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1870: The first section of Atlantic City, N.J.’s Boardwalk is opened to the public.

1919: The New York Daily News is first published.

1945: The charter of the United Nations is signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.

1948: The Berlin Airlift begins in earnest after the Soviet Union cuts off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin.

1950: President Harry S. Truman authorizes the Air Force and Navy to enter the Korean conflict.

1960: The island nation of Madagascar becomes independent of French rule.

1963: President John F. Kennedy visits West Berlin, where he expresses solidarity with the city’s residents by declaring: “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner).

1973: Former White House counsel John W. Dean tells the Senate Watergate Committee about an “enemies list” kept by the Nixon White House.

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1985: Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro unveils plans to turn the Mahoning River’s banks in downtown Youngstown into a recreational area known as Spring Common Riverfront Park.

School districts in Trumbull County are bracing themselves for the effects of a whopping $42 million reduction in personal property tax evaluation of LTV Steel Co. property.

1970: Carbon Limestone Co. is restoring a 1923 H.K. Porter steam engine to replace one that for many years was on display in Route 224 near the firm’s offices, but is now pulling a tourist train along a scenic tour of the Lahaina-Kaanapali & Pacific Railway in Hawaii.

Cruising cars of young toughs firebomb three Youngstown stores and attempt to burn the headquarters of a black organization named Freedom Inc.

The Youngstown State University Board of Trustees considers a proposal that 3.2 beer and visiting hours for coeds be established at YSU fraternity houses.

1960: Kathy Justice of Poland is named Miss Ohio and will compete in the Miss Universe contest in Miami Beach. The Ohio pageant was held at the Hotel Pick Ohio in Youngstown.

Ten members of the Vindicator’s second grand tour of Europe are injured, none seriously, when their tour bus skids on a rain-soaked highway and strikes two poles in Verona, Italy.

Failure of the federal highway agency to act on Youngstown’s expressway plans threatens to delay construction of the multimillion-dollar roadway system.

1935: Vindicator church writer Polly Hossel is on vacation in New York City and attends the six round knock-out of Primo Carnera by Detroit pugilist Joe Louis in Yankee Stadium. “Take it from someone who doesn’t know a haymaker from a left hook, the bout was really sumpin’,” she writes.

General Fireproofing Co. orders the resumption of preferred stock dividends, amounting to $1.78 per share for the quarter.