Years Ago
Today is Monday, June 27, the 178th day of 2011. There are 187 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1844: Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, are killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.
1893: The New York stock market crashes.
1942: The FBI announces the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore in Florida and Long Island, N.Y.
1944: During World War II, American forces liberate the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans.
1957: More than 500 people are killed when Hurricane Audrey slams through coastal Louisiana and Texas.
1977: The Supreme Court strikes down state laws and bar association rules that prohibit lawyers from advertising their fees for services.
1985: The legendary Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., passes into history as officials decertify the road.
1991: Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black to sit on the nation’s highest court, announces his retirement. (His departure leads to the nomination of Clarence Thomas to succeed him.)
VINDICATOR FILES
1986: On the last day of operation of the Strouss-Kaufmann’s store downtown, Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro says he expects to have proposals for use of the building within a week.
Armed with a search warrant issued by Judge William G. Houser, the Youngstown Humane Society confiscates 23 dogs, 15 cats and two chinchillas from a feces-littered home on South Avenue Ext. in North Lima.
For the first time in more than two decades, the United States imported more farm goods than it exported, contributing to the nation’s trade deficit for May, which increased to $14 billion, from $12.1 billion in April.
1971: Mrs. Frank Hoover, president of Plakie Toys Inc. at 4105 Simon Road, oversees a staff of 175 making plastic toys for babies and toddlers that are shipped all over the country .
Alfonse J. DeVico is elected to his fourth three-year term as business representative for Local 476 of the Painters Union, AFL-CIO in Youngstown.
Warren parks are operating with skeleton crews as budget cuts cause a cutback in hirings from 21 in 1970 to 12.
1961: Complaints of shoddy workmanship on new homes in College Park and Hubbard Estates housing developments are voiced during a special meeting of the Austintown Township trustees. More than 50 irate homeowners say they have paid more than $18,000 for homes that have defects the builders refuse to repair.
A bill to allow outboard motors of up to six horsepower on Pymatuning Lake passes the Pennsylvania House 191-0 over the objections of the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters.
1936: Mrs. M.L. McCracken pulls her three-year-old grandson Donald C. McCracken from a lake at the family’s Austintown Road home and administers artificial respiration, saving his life.
Youngstown City Council demands four changes in the proposed routes of trackless trolleys in the city, putting the project in jeopardy. William H. Muldoon, vice president of the Youngstown Municipal Railway Co., says the changes are unreasonable.