Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2011. There are 192 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1611: English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people are set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers aboard the Discovery; their fate remains unknown.

1870: The United States Department of Justice is created.

1911: Britain’s King George V is crowned at Westminster Abbey.

1940: During World War II, Adolf Hitler gains a stunning victory as France is forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris.

1941: Germany launches Operation Barbarossa as it invades the Soviet Union.

1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the “GI Bill of Rights.”

1945: The World War II battle for Okinawa ends with an Allied victory.

1969: Singer-actress Judy Garland dies in London at age 47.

1977: John N. Mitchell becomes the first former U.S. attorney general to go to prison as he begins serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up. (He is released 19 months later.)

1981: Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing rock star John Lennon.

Abolhassan Bani-Sadr is deposed as president of Iran.

1993: Former first lady Pat Nixon dies in Park Ridge, N.J., at age 81.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: The Youngstown State University Board of Trustees approves a 12 percent increase in tuition effective with the fall quarter. The increase will move YSU from 12th place in tuition charged by state universities to 11th.

Artist Walt Kuhn’s “Green Pompom,” a 1944 oil on canvass, arrives at the Butler Institute of American Art where it will become part of the permanent collection.

Youngstown State University will withdraw from the Ohio Valley Conference after a similar move by Akron left YSU as the only Ohio school in the conference.

1971: The Youngstown Board of Education estimates it will need $20.9 million to operate in 1972, but its projected income is $816,000 short.

An escape attempt by six maximum security prisoners at the Mahoning County Jail ends when their rope dropped from the sixth floor breaks, injuring three of them. All are quickly rounded up.

Emanuel Catsoules, assistant principal at Rayen School for three years, is named principal at a salary of $17,258.

1961: Youngstown motorists and those in Austintown, Coitsville, Boardman and Poland are paying the highest auto insurance rates in Ohio, about 10 percent above average.

Youngstown City Council approves a request by Mayor Frank R. Franko to promote five city patrolmen to the rank of detective.

Radio Station WFMJ is named by the Catholic Broadcasters Association as one of seven Golden Bell award recipients. The award is given to the most outstanding stations in the country.

1936: About 50 federal agents fan out through northeastern Ohio arresting 63 people in a vice and bootleg liquor crackdown. Among those arrested are a Youngstown patrolman and a city wrestling promoter.

The official opening of Warren’s new municipal golf course, nine holes at Avalon on the Warren-Sharon Road, will be celebrated with a four-day event beginning July 1.