Years Ago

June 27, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, June 27, the 178th day of 2010. There are 187 days left in the year.

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1844: Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, are killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.

1846: New York and Boston are linked by telegraph wires.

1893: The New York stock market crashes.

1942: The FBI announces the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine off Long Island, N.Y.

1950: The U.N. Security Council passes a resolution calling on member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North and to “restore international peace and security in the area.”

1957: More than 500 people are killed when Hurricane Audrey slams through coastal Louisiana and Texas.

1977: The Supreme Court, in Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, strikes down state laws and bar association rules that prohibit lawyers from advertising their routine fees.

1985: The legendary Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., passes into history as officials decertify the road.

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1985: Undercover Mahoning County deputies arrest five men and confiscate nearly $20,000 worth of fireworks ranging from sparklers to high explosives known as M-80s and M-200s.

The Ungaro administration claims that former Fire Chief Charles O’Nesti, an aide to U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., was overpaid by $4,911 in severance and back pay when he retired.

Youngstown City Council agrees to allow the Ungaro administration to seek a $570,000 federal grant for development of a park along the Mahoning River downtown, but shows little enthusiasm for the project.

1970: Nine transformers are short-circuited by lightning, leaving several sections of Youngstown and outlying communities without power.

Youngstown district customers of East Ohio Gas Co. will pay an average of 7 cents a day — about $25 a year — under a new rate plan approved by the PUCO.

Marine Corps veteran William L. Toth of Poland returns his honorable discharge to Marine Commandant Gen. Leonard F. Chapman Jr. in protest against the murder conviction of Marine Pvt. Michael A. Schwartz, 21, of Weirton, W. Va., sentenced to life imprisonment for the slaying of five women and 11 children during a night patrol in Vietnam.

1960: A team from the Kansai industrial region of Japan tours the Mahoning Valley to see how water resources have been developed here to provide industrial and drinking water supplies.

Skin divers searching for evidence in an Austintown state store burglary find instead an unopened safe, a typewriter and a drum containing records for the Teamsters Union locals 295 in Warren and 377 in Youngstown dating to 1922.

Sonya Musial, 42, of Poland, in a coma for more than three years after an auto accident, dies in South Side Hospital. Coroner Dr. David Belinky says manslaughter charges will be brought against the driver of the car that struck her after she stepped from a bus at South and Wilbur avenues.

1935: Voters reject a merger between Farrell and Sharon, 3,301 to 2,265. Sharon voters favored the proposal, 2,006 to 537, but Farrell voters were opposed, 2,764 to 257.

After weeks of investigation, 16 federal and state agents seize what they described as the biggest illegal still ever taken in Northeastern Ohio in a plant at 336 Wood St. in Niles. Brothers Mike and Sam Infanti are arrested.

Jimmy Daniels, a 21-year-old daredevil who jumps his motorcycle over two cars in the “Hell Drivers” show that is playing at Idora Park, is arrested by Youngstown police for driving a motorcycle under the influence of alcohol on Hudson Drive.