Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2011. There are 193 days left in the year. Summer arrives at 1:16 p.m. EDT.

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1788: The United States Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify it.

1834: Cyrus Hall McCormick receives a patent for his reaping machine.

1932: Heavyweight Max Schmeling loses a title fight rematch in New York by decision to Jack Sharkey, prompting Schmeling’s manager, Joe Jacobs, to exclaim: “We was robbed!”

1948: The Republican National Convention opens in Philadelphia. (The delegates end up choosing Thomas E. Dewey to be their presidential nominee.)

1963: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope takes the name Paul VI.

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1986: Arthur G. Young, president and chief executive officer of Mahoning National Bank, tells Youngstown State University’s newest graduates that education is the tool by which we shape a community’s future.

The McBlimp, owned by Airship International Ltd. and leased to the McDonald’s restaurant chain, captures a lot of attention as it cruises above Youngstown.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. is lobbying for a local firm, Valley Foods, to get YSU’s new five-year food service contract. He says he’s tired of out-of-town companies winning local contracts.

1971: Sixteen high school and college students begin working on Youngstown’s fifth summertime income tax survey, attempting to collect taxes that are not being withheld from employee paychecks.

Harold B. Heyman, active community and veterans leader, is elected president of Temple Emanu-El congregation.

Ken Walters and Sam Santisi of Liberty High School win the 14th annual YDAIGA Amateur Best Ball trophy, shooting a 65 on the Mill Creek Course.

1961: The Chicago region of the federal Public Housing Authority approves $7.5 million for construction of 498 public housing units in Youngstown and Campbell.

John McIntosh, 19, a lifeguard at Pemberton Pool, rescues Danny Semko, 12, of Boardman, who was pulled unconscious from 6 feet of water and revived with artificial respiration.

1936: Three executives of Central Air Lines, the mail operator between Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit, will come to Youngstown to inspect the proposed Vienna Township site for a municipal airport, with a promise of passenger service as soon as there’s a suitable air field.

A picnic cabin is completed near Mill Creek Park’s Lily Pond and is being used as a field laboratory by Youngstown College students studying the effects of insects on human welfare.