Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, June 20, the 172nd day of 2012. There are 194 days left in the year. Summer arrives at 7:09 p.m. Eastern time.

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On this date in:

1782: Congress approves the Great Seal of the United States, featuring the emblem of the bald eagle.

1791: King Louis XVI of France and his family attempt to flee the country in the so-called “Flight to Varennes” but are caught.

1837: Queen Victoria accedes to the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV.

1863: West Virginia becomes the 35th state.

1893: A jury in New Bedford, Mass., finds Lizzie Borden not guilty of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.

1921: U.S. Rep. Alice Mary Robertson, R- Okla., becomes the first woman to preside over a session of the House of Representatives.

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1987: Donald W. McGowan, president of Dollar Savings & Trust Co., tells Youngstown State University graduates that decisions facing college graduates are tougher and more complex than ever before.

The Youngstown State University Board of Trustees approves an 8 percent increase in tuition, bringing tuition from $500 to $540 a quarter for a full-time student.

1972: Thomas E. Zena, a 1965 graduate of Ursuline High School, receives his juris doctorate from Case Western Reserve University.

Two Waddell Pool employes are in the intensive care unit of Trumbull Memorial Hospital after inhaling chlorine gas in a mishap at the pool.

Gov. John J. Gilligan says the state will allow Hanna Coal Co. to move its 14-million pound strip mining shovel, the Gem of Egypt, across I-70 in Belmont County.

1962: Herbert W. Osgood, chairman of the downtown improvements committee, suggests free diagonal parking in the middle of Federal Street.

Atty. John W. Kerensky is appointed chief legal council and head of the Youngstown Humane Society by five Common Pleas Court judges.

1937: One man is killed, another probably fatally shot and 28 more injured in a riot that broke out near the tube mill gate of Republic Steel Corp. on Poland Avenue. Among the wounded was Ed Salt, a Vindicator photographer.

The Truck Drivers Union reacts to police opening fire on strikers with a call for a general strike.