Years Ago

June 28, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, June 28, the 179th day of 2010. There are 186 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip — the event which sparks the first World War.

1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the National Housing Act, which establishes the Federal Housing Administration.

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1985: Daniel J. Mirto, president of Rhiel Supply Co., receives the City of Hope’s annual Spirit of Life Award.

A proposed design for the downtown Youngstown railroad corridor shows a park-like atmosphere with green space, bike and hiking trails and a core business center to go with lower and upper-income apartments.

1970: Mahoning County officials and departments heads request budgets totaling $7.8 million, a record, even though they’ve been told county revenues could be as low as $6 million in 1971.

Regina Harris is crowned Miss Afro-American Youngstown at the first Afro-American Cultural Weekend in the city.

1960: Five young passersby help four Youngstown policemen apprehend three robbers who pulled off a daring daylight robbery from a wholesale jeweler on the eighth floor of the Dollar Bank building. Jewels worth $37,000 and $2,000 in cash are recovered. The young heroes are Tim Domer, 20; Ralph Orzechowski, 16; Dave McGarry, 16; Tony Santangelo, 17, and Peter Mittoli, 16.

Former Police Chief Peter Venorsky is in St. Elizabeth Hospital after suffering a heart attack.

1935: The Rev. Dr. Frederick Mayer, pastor for 42 years of the First Reformed Church, dies at his home, 344 Crandall Ave. He was 78.

Park Commissioner Lionel Evans says there will be no more commercial baseball on Youngstown ball fields after the city is told there were no profits to be shared from an exhibition game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Cleveland Rosenblums attended by 6,000 fans at Evans Field.