Years Ago

Today is Sunday, June 19, the 170th day of 2011. There are 195 days left in the year. This is Father’s Day.

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On this date in:

1862: Slavery is outlawed in U.S. territories.

1865: Union troops commanded by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrive in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War is over, and that all remaining slaves in Texas are free.

1910: The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Wash.

1911: Pennsylvania becomes the first state to establish a motion picture censorship board.

1953: Julius Rosenberg, 35, and his wife, Ethel, 37, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y.

1977: Pope Paul VI proclaims a 19th-century Philadelphia bishop, John Neumann, the first male U.S. saint.

1986: University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias, the first draft pick of the Boston Celtics, suffers a fatal cocaine-induced seizure.

1999: Author Stephen King is seriously injured when he is struck by a van driven by Bryan Smith in North Lovell, Maine.

Britain’s Prince Edward marries commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones in Windsor, England.

2001: A jury in San Jose, Calif., convicts Andrew Burnett of tossing a little dog to its death on a busy highway in a bout of road rage. (Burnett was later sentenced to three years in prison for the death of Leo, a fluffy white bichon frise.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: The Rescue Mission of Youngstown returns a $52,000 state grant for providing shelter to the homeless rather than abandon its tradition of requiring residents to attend chapel services.

The Ohio Public Defender’s Office says that a Warren man accused of raping a comatose woman in a Warren nursing home died in a VA hospital.

Melvin Catley, a gospel organist and singer, is shot to death after getting out of his car in front of the Masters Tuxedo Rental on Federal Plaza West. His assailant walked directly to the police station and turned himself in.

1971: J. Phillip Richley, Ohio director of highways, tells Youngstown State University’s newest graduates that there is still time for Americans to provide for the wants and needs of society.

Dr. Albert Pugsley, president of Youngstown State University, appeals for financial assistance for honors graduate Robert Szentirmay, who is hospitalized by gunshot wounds suffered during a robbery at his home and is without health insurance.

Thirty more arrests are made in Youngstown’s crackdown on illegal drugs, including that of a former Mahoning County deputy.

1961: The FBI and Pennsylvania state police are investigating a break-in at the Citizens National Bank Call’s Plaza branch in New Castle in which as much as $50,000 may have been taken from the night depository.

Two area girls are sworn in as mayors at Buckeye Girls State at Capital University in Columbus: Kathleen Pillar of Warren and Sara Withers of Poland.

Duncan Craig, chief of Alcohol and Tobacco Tax enforcement in the Youngstown area, warns that a Southern-style moonshine still found in North Jackson was using automobile radiators, and may have been turning out poisonous liquor.

1936: Forty-six company guards at Black & Decker Electric Co. in Kent are arrested on John Doe warrants a day after opening fire on striking pickets, wounding nine men.

Two organizers from Pittsburgh representing the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers arrive at the Hotel Ohio in Youngstown as part of a drive to organize area steel workers. Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal reports that steel executives are planning 10 percent wage hikes to discourage union organization.

Henry Douchet, a brakeman for the Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western Railroad, spots 5-year-old Harold Peters of Lisbon stranded on a trestle above Little Beaver Creek, reaches down from the moving train, snatches the boy from the tracks, tosses him into the creek and then dives in after him to drag the boy to safety.