Years Ago

Today is Thursday, June 23, the 174th day of 2011. There are 191 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1860: A congressional resolution authorizes creation of the United States Government Printing Office, which opens the following year.

1931: Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from New York on a round-the-world flight that lasts eight days and 15 hours.

1938: The Civil Aeronautics Authority is established.

1947: The Senate joins the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, designed to limit the power of organized labor.

1956: Gamal Abdel Nasser is elected president of Egypt.

1961: The Antarctic Treaty, intended to ensure that the continent would be used only for peaceful purposes, comes into force.

1967: President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin hold the first of two meetings at Glassboro State College in New Jersey.

1972: President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discuss a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation sparks Nixon’s resignation in 1974.)

1985: All 329 people aboard an Air India Boeing 747 are killed when the plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland because of a bomb believed to have been planted by Sikh separatists.

2001: Pope John Paul II arrives in Ukraine, seeking to reconcile divisions between Catholics and the Orthodox Church.

Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru’s fugitive ex-spy chief wanted on human rights and corruption charges, is captured in Venezuela. (Montesinos is serving a 25-year prison sentence.)

2005: A divided U.S. Supreme Court, in Kelo v. City of New London, rules that governments may seize property for private development projects.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: Recent undercover investigations by the Youngstown Police Department’s narcotics squad indicate that the use of crack, a highly potent form of cocaine, may be on the rise.

June goes down in weather history as the wettest month in the Mahoning Valley with 10.29 inches of rain already, besting the record of 9.87 set in May 1949.

1971: Charles R. Green of Warren is slated to take over as commander of the Ohio American Legion when it convenes in Cleveland. He is believed to be the first Negro to head a state American Legion division.

The financially troubled Mahoning Valley Regional Mass Transit Authority reports net operating losses of $75,000 over 10 months and is expected to seek a subsidy from Youngstown and Mahoning County.

1961: Anita Danyluk of Niles brings the city its second national girls marbles championship in six years, winning the competition in Wildwood, N.J.

Three armed and masked thugs invade the Poland home of Frank Poremb-ski, a 74-year-old businessman, bind him, gag him and ransack the home before leaving with little loot in his 1958 Chrysler.

Research workers from Ohio State University arrive in Youngstown to conduct a study on ways to get unemployed workers back on the job.

1936: The Trumbull County Fresh Air Camp sponsored by the Kiwanis Clubs opens an eight-week season with 36 youngsters expected each week.

Youngstown police are attempting to find out how a local man came to be in possession of a small arsenal, including a Thompson sub-machine gun. Four people are arrested, including a 16-year-old boy, following a disturbance at a George Street house where the guns were found.

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