Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, June 26, the 178th day of 2012. There are 188 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1483: Richard III begins his reign as King of England.

1870: The first section of the Atlantic City, N.J., Boardwalk is opened to the public.

1911: John J. McDermott becomes the first American-born golf player to win the U.S. Open, played in Chicago.

1912: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 in D major premieres in Vienna more than a year after the composer’s death.

1936: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is nominated for a second term of office by delegates to the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia.

1945: The charter of the United Nations is signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.

1948: The Berlin Airlift begins in earnest after the Soviet Union cuts off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin.

1950: President Harry S. Truman authorizes the Air Force and Navy to enter the Korean conflict.

1963: President John F. Kennedy visits West Berlin, where he famously declares, “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner).

1973: Former White House counsel John W. Dean tells the Senate Watergate Committee about an “enemies list” kept by the Nixon White House.

1987: Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. announces his retirement, leaving a vacancy that is filled by Anthony M. Kennedy.

1990: President George H.W. Bush goes back on his “no-new-taxes” campaign pledge, conceding that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package worked out with congressional negotiators.

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1987: Mellon Bank offers a “conditional proposal” to loan struggling Sharon Steel Corp. $12 million.

LTV Corp. reaches an agreement that will restore an average of 92 percent of pension benefits to retired employees.

Charles W. Syak, chief executive officer of Syro Steel Co., receives the City of Hope’s “Spirit of Life” award during a banquet at Mr. Anthony’s.

1972: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Elwyn V. Jenkins lifts a restraining order that had kept the Youngstown Board of Education from enforcing disciplinary policies that had come under fire from community activists.

The Youngstown Board of Education is seeking applications for several principalships in the city, including Rand Becker’s top spot at Hayes Middle School, which was the center of controversy over discipline during the school year.

Youngstown State University awards associate degrees to 49 graduates in its fifth class, including 48 women and a man.

1962: A group of some 100 angry township residents crowd the Milton Township Hall to discuss possible action on a zone change at Lake Milton permitting stock car racing.

Youngstown swimmers continue to keep the city’s six pools busy, with park Superintendent Edward Finamore reporting 6,717 swimmers on a day that has 1,717 swim free from 10 a.m. to noon.

1937: Iron and steel are being made in the Youngstown district for the first time since May 26 after thousands of workers return unmolested for regular shifts at their plants.

Police and National Guardsmen arrest a man after finding six dynamite bombs near the office of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. at Stop 14.

Youngstown City Council changes the name of Telegram Square to Vindicator Square as The Vindicator prepares to move into the remodeled offices of the former Telegram.