YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2015. There are 192 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1611: English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people are set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers aboard the Discovery; their fate remains unknown.

1815: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates for a second time as emperor of the French.

1870: The United States Department of Justice is created.

1911: Britain’s King George V is crowned at Westminster Abbey.

1937: Joe Louis begins his reign as world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Jim Braddock in the eighth round of their fight in Chicago.

1940: During World War II, Adolf Hitler gains a stunning victory as France was forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris.

1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the “GI Bill of Rights.”

1945: The World War II battle for Okinawa ends with an Allied victory.

1959: The Swedish film “Wild Strawberries,” written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, opens in New York.

1965: Movie producer David O. Selznick (“Gone with the Wind”) dies in Los Angeles at age 63.

1977: John N. Mitchell becomes the first former U.S. attorney general to go to prison as he begins serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up. (He was released 19 months later.)

2005: White House adviser Karl Rove sets off a political firestorm with a speech to the New York state Conservative Party in which he said, “Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers” while conservatives, he said, “saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war. ”

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1990: All five congressmen representing the Mahoning and Shenango valleys vote for a constitutional amendment that would ban flag burning. The measure fell 34 votes short of the two-thirds needed. Voting for the amendment were James A. Traficant Jr. of Poland, Dennis Eckart of Mentor, Douglas Applegate of Steubenville, Joseph Kolter of New Brighton, Pa., and Thomas Ridge of Erie, Pa. All are Democrats, except Ridge.

Youngstown officials are questioning Mahoning Country’s proposal to increase vehicle registration fees by $10 a year, questioning whether the city will get its fair share of the money.

George J. Love, 29, of Canton is in satisfactory condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital after being shot in the legs by a panhandler on Griffith Street after he refused the man’s request for money.

1975: Youngstown State University’s new $6 million library will be named for the late William F. Maag Jr., editor and publisher of The Vindicator for some 40 years and a community leader who long supported university and community libraries.

The instructional fee for students at Youngstown State University will be increased from $180 a quarter to $190 for full-time students to help balance a 12 percent increase in the university’s budget of $26 million. (The university’s 2016 budget totals $177 million.)

The University of Virginia is joining the McGuffey Historical Society of Youngstown in a bid for a commemorative stamp honoring William Holmes McGuffey, author of the McGuffey Readers and a teacher at the university for 28 years.

1965: Veteran Mahoning County Commissioner Thomas J. Carney, well known for starting the annual Golden Gloves boxing tournament and promoting it for 35 years, dies at age 70 in St. Elizabeth Hospital.

George W. Brown, president of Brown Drug Stores, resigns “with deep regret” from the Youngstown Board of Education after 18 years, saying he is moving to Florida.

A federal jury in Cleveland finds Ronald Carabbia guilty of falsifying an application for a federal gambling stamp, one week after his brother, Orlando, was released from a federal penitentiary after serving almost a year for tax evasion.

1940: Beautification of the north hillside along the Erie Railroad tracks between Wick Avenue and Hazel Street is awarded first prize for city beautification projects by the National Junior Chamber of Commerce.

James Turnbull, a gasoline station attendant, is robbed by two masked gunmen of the day’s receipts of $36 in cash and $9 in checks as he walked along High Street toward his home after closing the station.