Years Ago

Today is Thursday, June 28, the 180th day of 2012. There are 186 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

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.

1944: The Republican national convention in Chicago nominates New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for president and Ohio Gov. John W. Bricker for vice president.

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

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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1987: Mahoning County Prosecutor Gary Van Brocklin says he will represent neither the commissioners nor Treasurer Michael Pope in the battle over what Pope says is inadequate funding for his office

Mahoning Valley residents are reminded that the use of fireworks in Ohio is illegal, although residents may purchase fireworks at retail shops if they promise to take them out of the state within 48 hours.

Youngstown State University has conducted about 1,200 interviews in its oral history program overseen by history Professor Hugh Earnhart.

The Rev. William Slates, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Hubbard from 1952 to 1970, marks the 50th year of his ordination during a ceremony at Grace Lutheran Church in Fremont, where he is the visitation pastor.

1972: For the fourth time in less than a month members of Local 734, International Union of Electrical Workers, walk off their jobs at the Youngstown Lamp Plant of General Electric over work grievances.

The FBI is seeking two more area men, brothers Harry Barber and Ronald Barber, for questioning in the Laguna Niguel, Calif., bank burglary.

Nearly $2,000 is donated to the Mahoning County Red Cross disaster fund for flood victims in Pennsylvania, New York and South Dakota.

Appellate Judge Nils P. Johnson, 50, announces that he will resign from the 7th District Appeals Court. Gov. John J. Gilligan will name a replacement.

1962: Police Chief William Golden rewards six Youngstown policemen with extra days off in recognition of their work that solved 63 burglaries. Receiving two days off were detectives Jerome Bernat, Donald Baker and Carmen Bruno; getting one day were detectives Howard Moore and Stephen Matosko and Patrolman Dan Murphy.

Atty. Charles P. Henderson, Youngstown mayor from 1947 through 1953, is elected president of the Mahoning County Bar Association.

1937: Eight hundred members of the congregation at First Presbyterian Church break into applause at the conclusion of Dr. W.H. Hudnut’s farewell sermon as pastor; to anyone’s knowledge, it’s the first time that the Old First Church echoed with applause.

Youngstown Mayor Lionel Evans lifts his ban on the sale of beer and liquor in the city, but orders police to keep a close eye on liquor places near the plant gates for signs of rowdyism.

Gov. Martin L. Davey refuses to remove National Guardsmen from the Mahoning Valley until he’s convinced that the danger of strike-related violence is past.