Today is Sunday, June 28, the 179th day of 2015. There are 186 days left in the year.

Today is Sunday, June 28, the 179th day of 2015. There are 186 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1778: The Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth takes place in New Jersey; it is from this battle that the legend of “Molly Pitcher” arose.

1836: The fourth president of the United States, James Madison, dies in Montpelier, Va.

1838: Britain’s Queen Victoria is crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, are shot to death in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip – an act that sparked World War I.

1919: The Treaty of Versailles is signed in France, ending the First World War.

1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Alien Registration Act, also known as the Smith Act, which requires adult foreigners residing in the U.S. to be registered and fingerprinted.

Corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie receives the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Philadelphia (U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles McNary of Oregon is nominated for vice president).

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.

1964: Civil rights activist Malcolm X declares, “We want equality by any means necessary” during the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York.

1975: Screenwriter, producer and actor Rod Serling, 50, creator of “The Twilight Zone,” dies in Rochester, N.Y.

1989: About 1 million Serbs gather to mark the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.

1996: The Citadel votes to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.

2005: Marking the first anniversary of the transfer of power from the U.S.-led coalition to Iraq’s interim government, President George W. Bush, addressing the nation from Fort Bragg, N.C., rejects suggestions that he set a timetable for withdrawal or send in more troops as he counsels patience for Americans who are questioning the war’s painful costs.

Sixteen service members were killed when an American MH-47 Chinook crashes in Afghanistan after it had been struck by a rocket-propelled grenade.

2010: Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., the longest-serving senator in the nation’s history, dies in Falls Church, Va., at 92.

The Senate Judiciary Committee opens its confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

The Supreme Court rules that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live.

2014: Ahmed Abu Khattala, the Libyan militant accused of masterminding the deadly Benghazi attacks in 2012, pleads not guilty to conspiracy in Washington nearly two weeks after being captured by U.S. special forces.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Mill Creek Park trustee Avetis Darvanan warns that if a petition to dissolve the Mill Creek Metropolitan Park District is successful, it would mean the end of Mill Creek Park.

Former Mahoning County Sheriff Lt. Michael S. Terlecky pleads guilty to one count of racketeering for taking a bribe from rackets figure Lenny Strollo to protect his illegal gambling business.

St. Joseph Riverside Hospital and the Warren Otologic Group are participants in clinical trials of cochlear implants for profoundly deaf children.

1975: Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. announces that it is drilling 10 natural gas development wells in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

Ned Williams, director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, says that there will be plenty of state-guaranteed financing available to enable various Mahoning Valley entities to clean up the Mahoning River.

The Mahoning County Welfare Department removes 177 people form welfare rolls after face-to-face interviews to determine their continued eligibility.

1965: The Youngstown Salvation Army gets its first two girl cadets, Marilyn Halcomb and Margaret Givens who will spend a year in the city and graduate as lieutenants.

A wildcat strike by Teamsters Local 377 at the Loblaw warehouse at 650 N. Meridian Avenue. enters its fourth day.

Three Youngstown district bathers drown as temperatures approaching 90 drive people to pools and lakes. Dead are Thomas DeNardo, 8, of Warren, who drowned in Ponderosa Lake; David Johnson, 6, of Warren, who drowned in Lake Francis, and Ivan Grgurevic, 26, of Girard, who drowned in Mosquito Lake. Grgurevic was spending his first weekend in America after arriving from Yugoslavia.

1940: Wendell Willkie wins the Republican presidential nomination on the sixth ballot at the national convention in Philadelphia, outlasting Republican Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Senate Republican Leader Charles McNary of Oregon accepts the vice presidential spot after Taft, Ohio Gov. John W. Bricker, Thomas E. Dewey of New York decline the position.

Atty. John W. Ford is elected president of the Youngstown Community Corporation, succeeding J. Fearnley Bonnell, who has been spending the greater part of his time in Florida.

Three Youngstown golfers – Bill Santor, Steve Pipoly and Andy Yurcho – advance to the second round of the 37th annual Ohio tournament at Shaker Heights Country Club.