Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Today is Tuesday, June 14, the 166th day of 2016. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1777: The Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, adopts the original design of the Stars and Stripes, specifying a flag containing 13 red and white stripes and 13 stars.
1922: Ohioan Warren G. Harding becomes the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcasts his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry.
1940: German troops enter Paris during World War II; the same day, the Nazis begin transporting prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
1943: The U.S. Supreme Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, rules 6-3 that children in public schools cannot be forced to salute the flag of the United States.
1972: The Environmental Protection Agency orders a ban on domestic use of the pesticide DDT, to take effect at year’s end.
1982: Argentine forces surrender to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands.
1990: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds, 6-3, police checkpoints that examine drivers for signs of intoxication.
2006: President George W. Bush, just back from a surprise visit to Iraq, dismisses calls for a U.S. withdrawal as election-year politics and refuses to give a timetable or benchmark for success that would allow troops to come home.
2015: Thousands of Syrians cut through a border fence and cross over into Turkey, fleeing intense fighting in northern Syria between Kurdish fighters and jihadis.
VINDICATOR FILES
1991: Austintown Township trustees suspend an auxiliary police officer for 60 days for neglect of duty in the escape of a prisoner from a Mahoning County Court holding cell.
Warren Police Capt. Thomas Hutson, a longtime adversary of Mayor Daniel Sferra, gets the highest score on the examination that will determine the city’s new police chief.
Leo Genetta, a Jackson Township farmer, erects a sign at a bridge on South Bailey Road declaring it the “Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge.” Genetta, a Korean War Air Force veteran, says the sign is a reaction to “the forgotten war” label often attached to the Korean conflict.
1976: About 60,000 people flock to the Youngstown Municipal Airport for the air show and aircraft displays sponsored by the 910th Tactical Fighter Squadron at the Youngstown Air Force Reserve Base.
Cleveland Mayor Ralph Perk issues a new dress code banning shorts on workers in City Hall after seeing a secretary who wore shorts to work.
Three young men drown in separate weekend incidents, one at Mosquito Lake, one at Locust Grove Lake in Springfield and one in a quarry. Dead are Lee Cole, 16, of Youngstown; George R. Robison, 22, of Darlington, Pa.; and William D. Shirley, 20, of Warren.
1966: Haven X. Mumford, manager of the Warren Transportation Co., tells city council that his company has lost money for six-straight years and must increase its fares from 25 cents to 30 cents.
“The Sound of Music” begins the 52nd week of its Youngstown run at the State Theater. The Warner Theater (today’s DeYor Performing Arts Center) announces the return of Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” to its screen.
Dr. Richard D. Murray presents four statues representing the four seasons to Mill Creek Park for display in Fellows Riverside Gardens.
1941: Youngstown Councilman Edwin D. Haseltine celebrates his 83rd birthday with the announcement that he will probably not run for re-election.
Mayors of Campbell, Struthers, Lowellville and Poland meet to discuss possible construction of a jointly operated garbage incinerator.
More than 1,000 Romanian-Americans and their guests are expected at the opening of the 16-acre Romanian-American Cultural Gardens in Braceville Township in Trumbull County.