YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, June 23, the 174th day of 2015. There are 191 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1314: During the First War of Scottish Independence, the two-day Battle of Bannockburn, resulting in victory for the forces of Robert the Bruce over the army of King Edward II, begins near Stirling.

1757: Forces of the East India Co. led by Robert Clive win the Battle of Plassey, which effectively marks the beginning of British colonial rule in India.

1812: Britain, unaware that America has declared war against it five days earlier, rescinds its policy on neutral shipping, a major issue of contention between the two countries.

1904: President Theodore Roosevelt is nominated for a second term of office at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

1931: Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from New York on a round-the-world flight that lasts eight days and 15 hours.

1938: The Civil Aeronautics Authority is established.

1947: The Senate joins the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, designed to limit the power of organized labor.

1956: Gamal Abdel Nasser is elected president of Egypt.

1967: President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin have the first of two meetings at Glassboro State College in New Jersey.

1969: Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States by the man he is succeeding, Earl Warren.

1972: President Richard Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discuss using the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation sparked Nixon’s resignation in 1974.)

1985: All 329 people aboard an Air India Boeing 747 are killed when the plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland because of a bomb authorities believe was planted by Sikh separatists.

1995: Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first vaccine to halt the crippling rampage of polio, dies in La Jolla, Calif., at age 80.

Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen, 80, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil-rights workers.

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1990: Youngstown State University Trustee Richard P. McLaughlin tells other trustees that allocating $3.5 million of the school’s $87 million budget for athletics is excessive and a scar on the school’s academic image.

Sister Consolata Kline, former executive director of St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center and superior of the Sisters of the Humility of Mary, is named associate vicar for social concerns for the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown.

The Warren Board of Education adopts an attendance policy that calls for automatic failure for any junior or senior high-school student who has seven unexcused absences during a nine-week grading period.

1975: Youngstown firemen are kept busy answering six calls in an hour, including two fires set by arsonists and one by children playing with matches.

Trumbull County deputies have arrested three adults and two juveniles and recovered 28 pistols, eight rifles and a machine gun taken in a burglary at the home of Roger Goodge in Mineral Ridge.

A 14-year-old boy, Terry Culbertson, and Joann Stanley, 10, drown in separate incidents in Beaver Creek near East Liverpool.

1965: A continuing drought causes an emergency water shortage in Boardman Township, where 25 percent of the homes were without water.

Two Columbiana 4-H Club members, Vicki Cobourn and David Holmes, visit Washington, D.C., as part of Ohio Citizenship Week.

A.S. Glossbrenner, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., announces that the company will give $500,000 to the Greater Hospitals Campaign of Youngstown that is seeking $4 million.

1940: After nearly nine months of trying to get back home from war-torn Europe, James Moore, storekeeper for the Salvation Army in Youngstown, says the city “certainly looks good to me.”

Paul Barnes of Youngstown and Howard Edsall of Sharpsville, Pa., win one-year scholarships to Youngstown College awarded to outstanding carrier-salesmen of the Youngstown Vindicator.

About 1,000 people go to a quarry near Hillsville, Pa., to watch Carbon Limestone Co.’s new 910,000-pound shovel in operation. It can excavate 90 feet below the surface.