Years Ago
Today is Tuesday, June 29, the 180th day of 2010. There are 185 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1776: The Virginia state constitution is adopted, and Patrick Henry is made governor.
1910: Composer-lyricist Frank Loesser, who wrote the songs for such Broadway musicals as “Guys and Dolls,” “The Most Happy Fella” and “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” is born in New York.
1946: Authorities in British-ruled Palestine arrest more than 2,700 Jews in an attempt to stamp out extremists.
1966: The United States bombs fuel storage facilities near the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong.
1967: Jerusalem is re-unified as Israel removes barricades separating the Old City from the Israeli sector.
1970: The United States ends a two-month military offensive into Cambodia.
1972: The Supreme Court rules the death penalty as it was being meted out could constitute “cruel and unusual punishment.” (The ruling prompts states to revise their capital punishment laws.)
1988: The Supreme Court upholds the independent counsel law.
1995: A department store in Seoul, South Korea, collapses, killing at least 500 people.
2003: Actress Katharine Hepburn dies in Old Saybrook, Conn., at age 96.
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1985: An estimated 12,000 people line the banks of the Shenango River for the popular Small Ships Review.
Dom Rosselli, who has coached various sports teams at Youngstown State University for 45 years, announces his retirement. As head coach of the basketball and baseball programs, he had amassed 1,079 total victories.
Gov. Richard F. Celeste makes good on his promise to Mahoning County to provide $1.25 million to the county to help pay its state-mandate share of welfare costs.
1970: A 12-year-old boy from Canonsburg, Pa., dies after a tent-trailer bursts into flames from leaking propane gas at Pymatuning State Park.
The Youngstown Board of Control signs over the old site of Champion Bowling to the Youngstown YMCA for the Y’s expansion program.
1960: The Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce will seek the support of all area chambers of commerce in urging the federal government to turn over its Youngstown Airport facilities to the city.
Robert W. Brown, 80, is giving serious thought to retirement after police book him on his 15th gambling charge after he is found with three bug slips in his pockets.
The McKay Machine Co. of Youngstown plans to acquire the Federal Machine & Welder Co. of Warren.
1935: John Farah of Warren, one of the men who got pardon releases from the Ohio penitentiary in the last week of Gov. George White’s term, is facing charges in federal court of transporting bootleg liquor.
Emil Filimon defeats George Slanco in the closely contested washer-pitching contest and Evan Ellis wins the junior competition. Each receives the first prize of $1 from The Vindicator.
Poland Constable Myron Flickinger reports to the sheriff’s office that he exchanged shots with men in a late-model car with Michigan plates. The men may be those who are subject of a nationwide manhunt in the shooting death of New York lawyer Howard Carter Dickinson in Detroit.
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