YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, June 29, the 180th day of 2015. There are 185 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1767: Britain approves the Townshend Revenue Act, which imposed import duties on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper and tea shipped to the American colonies. (Colonists bitterly protested, prompting Parliament to repeal the duties – except for tea.)

1954: The Atomic Energy Commission votes against reinstating Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer’s access to classified information.

1967: Jerusalem is re-unified as Israel removed barricades separating the Old City from the Israeli sector.

1972: The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a trio of death sentences, saying the way they had been imposed constituted cruel and unusual punishment. (The ruling prompted states to effectively impose a moratorium on executions until their capital punishment laws could be revised.)

2003: Actress Katharine Hepburn dies at age 96.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Pennsylvania Atty. Gen. Ernie Preate Jr. files suit to stop the B.J. Alan Co. of Youngstown from advertising fireworks for sale to Pennsylvania residents.

The overwhelming majority of people testifying at a public hearing in Lordstown are in favor of keeping the Ohio Turnpike as a toll road.

Heavy rains wash more than 150 gallons of a petroleum-based driveway sealant from a parking lot at the Church Hill United Methodist Church into Little Squaw Creek, blackening the water and killing aquatic life in 3 miles of the stream.

1975: During the first 30 days of a 60-day pilot program to encourage the adoption of dogs from the Trumbull County dog pound, only 11 dogs are adopted, short of what the Animal Welfare League had hoped for when encouraging county commissioners to approve the plan.

The bell that once hung in the Mahoning County Courthouse when it was in Canfield is being installed in a bell tower on the village green with work expected to be done in time for the Fourth of July celebration.

Leaving for four weeks living with families in Vorga, Finland, under the Children’s International Summer Village program are Aimee Amendolara, Heidi Kerpsack, Debbie Rand, Cindy Leonhart, Nick Houston, Vicki Perelman, Spencer Kline, Jeff Grinstein, Jim Rohrbaugh and Scott Lewis.

1965: A 17-year-old Struthers youth driving the wrong way on Marshall Street collides with a car at Edwards Street. Six people are injured.

Seven local youths are invited to play in the 300-piece All-Ohio Boys Band at the Ohio State Fair: David Soich, John Dudash Jr., Dale Koran, John Prodesky, Ronald Ditullo, William Wolfe and Jerome Revish.

A 29-mile stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike became “nightmare alley” as 50 cars in the westbound lane near Everett, Pa., had their tires flattened by steel shavings falling from the tailgate of a truck. Traffic was backed up for 9 miles.

1940: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. employees send $4,284 to the Mahoning Chapter of the American Red Cross, bringing the local drive for European war relief to 90 percent of its $80,000 goal.

About 500 delegates arrive for the Eighth Annual Jewish War Veterans Association convention at the Hotel Ohio downtown.

The regional office of the National Labor Relations Board orders an election at the Republic Rubber Division of the Lee Rubber and Tire Corp. to determine if the United Rubber Workers of America, the Independent Association of Republic Employees or neither will be the bargaining agent at the Youngstown plant.