Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, June 28, the 179th day of 2010. There are 186 days left in the year.

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1836: The fourth president of the United States, James Madison, dies in Montpelier, Va.

1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip — the event which sparks World War I.

1919: The Treaty of Versailles is signed in France, ending World War I.

1939: Pan American Airways begins regular trans-Atlantic air service with a flight that departs New York for Marseilles, France.

1950: North Korean forces capture Seoul, the capital of South Korea.

1951: A TV version of the radio comedy program “Amos ’N’ Andy” premieres on CBS. (While criticized for racial stereotyping, it is the first network TV series to feature an all-black cast.)

1978: The Supreme Court orders the University of California-Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who argued he’d been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.

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1986: Downtown Sharon is packed with spectators for the 7th annual Small Ships Revue, which included a flotilla of odd watercraft on the Shenango River and a parade and fireworks.

New Middletown Mayor Michael Klim names his wife, Debra, to the part-time job of clerk, which pays $3,300 a year.

Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro swears in nine new firefighters: Kevin O’Neill, Patrick Keevey, Larry Cummings, Eli Santiago, Richard Ortz, Alvin Ware, Joseph O’Neill Jr., Tom Lochrane and Eddie Woolridge.

1971: The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Pennsylvania and Rhode Island laws providing aid to parochial schools saying that they “involve excessive entanglement of church and state.”

Loretta Ann Whiting, 14, of Girard dies of injuries suffered after being thrown from her horse, which friends say was frightened by a chipmunk.

An 18-year-old Youngs-town-Poland Road youth is arrested after admitting that he drove an auto in a police chase that resulted in a crash that injured two Youngstown patrolmen.

1961: Visiting Common Pleas Judge H.E. Culberson sentences a 23-year-old Warren man to 1 to 20 years in the Ohio Penitentiary for the October 1959 bombing of the car of Warren Atty. Joseph Molitoris.

The U.S. Senate rejects an amendment offered by U.S. Sens. Joseph S. Clark, D-Pa., and Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., to exempt from Social Security people whose religion forbids participation, such as the Amish.

Texas Rep. Clark W. Thompson, praises Youngstown’s Congressman Michael J. Kirwan for his role in construction of a salt water conversion plant at Freeport, Texas.

1936: More than 500 people purchase $1 tickets to the Roosevelt nomination party at Idora Park, but only a small number show up to hear a radio broadcast of President Roosevelt’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

The annual convention of the Ohio Jewish War Veterans of the United States opens at the Hotel Ohio in Youngstown.