Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, June 27, the 179th day of 2012. There are 187 days left in the year.

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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 arrests of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore in Florida and Long Island, N.Y. (Six are executed)

1957: More than 500 people are killed when Hurricane Audrey slams through coastal Louisiana and Texas.

1972: The video game company Atari, Inc., is founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Santa Clara, Calif.

1991: Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black to sit on the nation’s highest court, announces his retirement.

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1987: Wildlife officials use a helicopter to herd Canada geese at Mosquito Creek State Park into pens where they are banded in an ongoing effort to keep tabs on waterfowl at the reservoir.

A dozen Democratic senators and nine Republicans in the Ohio Senate join to increase the gasoline tax from 12 cents to 14.7 cents to raise $261 million for state road projects and $84 million for local governments.

1972: Amil Dinsio, 56, of 5816 Mill Creek Blvd., is arrested by the FBI in Boardman on a warrant charging him in the $6.5 million burglary of the Laguna Niguel Branch of United California Bank.

Robert A. Hedrick is named superintendent of Campbell city schools.

1962: A burglar shoots the hat off Girard Patrolman Michael Zuppo during a gun battle after Zuppo interrupted a burglary at Baglier Ford on N. State Street.

Youngstown clergy are split on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down official prayer in public schools.

Adam S. Chesney, 73, chairman of the board of the Mahoning County Board of Elections since 1954, dies of a heart attack after attending a routine board meeting.

1937: Steel production in the Youngstown area is increasing quickly, reaching near-pre-strike levels of 73 percent in a matter of days.

The Mahoning County grand jury is called into session to open an investigation into violence during the steel strike.

Youngstown City Council passes legislation to provide paid vacations of one or two weeks for 25 city employees who are paid on an hourly rate. Salaried employees already receive two weeks vacation.