Years Ago

Today is Thursday, June 21, the 173rd day of 2012. There are 193 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1942: German forces led by Generaloberst (Colonel General) Erwin Rommel capture Tobruk in Libya during World War II.

A Japanese submarine fires shells at Fort Stevens, Oregon, causing little damage.

1963: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope takes the name Paul VI.

1964: Civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney are murdered in Philadelphia, Miss.; their bodies are found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.

1982: A jury in Washington, D.C., finds John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three other men.

1989: The Supreme Court rules that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.

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1987: Two new priests are ordained at St. Columba Cathedral, the Rev. Michael Balash and the Rev. John W. Zuraw.

The North Mar Church of Christian and Missionary Alliance in Warren is planning a July celebration of the 100th year of its denomination.

1972: Frank J. Leseganich, director of District 28, United Steelworkers Union, pledges union support for a stub-end canal from Youngstown to the Ohio River.

Helen B. Suber is named acting director of the West Federal Street YMCA.

1962: Youngstown City Council unanimously rejects a proposal by the administration that Western Reserve University produce Civil Service tests for the police department.

Youngstown’s Steve Pipoly wins the seventh annual Ohio State Golfers Association Pre-Seniors Tournament at Springfield, Ohio, by five strokes.

1937: Company officials announce that plants of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and the Republic Steel Corp. will be open for operation with turns of 12 hours, with time and a half for time over eight hours.

Henry Euler, a 36-year-old former Pittsburgher serving time in an Illinois prison, confesses to the murder of John C. Pappas, former Warren gambler, near Churchhill in Trumbull County Feb. 6, 1936.