YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, June 20, the 172nd day of 2016. There are 194 days left in the year. Summer arrives at 6:34 p.m. Eastern time.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1782: Congress approves the Great Seal of the United States, featuring the emblem of the bald eagle.

1893: A jury in New Bedford, Mass., finds Lizzie Borden not guilty of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.

1966: The Beatles album “Yesterday and Today” is released by Capitol Records, initially with its notorious cover photo featuring the Fab Four dressed in butcher smocks while posing with chunks of meat and parts of dismembered dolls; the resulting outcry prompted Capitol to recall the albums and replace the covers, making the “butcher cover” a collector’s item.

1967: Boxer Muhammad Ali is convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. (Ali’s conviction was ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court).

2001: Houston resident Andrea Yates drowns her five children in the family bathtub, then called police.

2015: More than 60 pizza-makers working for 18 hours completed a pie that was 1.59545 kilometers, or nearly a mile long, for Milan’s world fair, Expo 2015; a Guinness World Records judge proclaimed it the world’s longest pizza.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: After a week of controversy over the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees’ naming of Paul Dutton as university president in a closed meeting, Board President Dr. John F. Goletka says the board will not offer Dutton a contract. The move comes a day after the Academic Senate called for the board to reopen its search for a president.

Columbiana businessman Don Brothers asks the village of Columbiana to annex 22 acres that is the site of the Century III Truck Plaza to the village.

The Pennsylvania House Health and Welfare Committee votes 14-10 in favor of a bill that would establish a statewide health-care plan for people with little or no insurance.

1976: Republicans hope to gain some seats in the Mahoning Valley in their campaign to reclaim control of the Ohio House of Representatives. Gov. James A. Rhodes says having President Ford at the head of the ticket will help GOP candidates at the state level.

F.J. Jack Bittel, general manager of sales for Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., says there are some signs of an easing in steel imports that have cost the Youngstown area thousands of jobs and Youngstown companies millions in sales.

The Most Rev. Roland Abou Jaoude, patriarchal vicar general of Lebanon, tells the Youngstown Maronite community that the war in Lebanon is the result of manipulation of dissident Palestinians by an Arab power. The bishop made Youngstown his first stop on a tour of U.S. and Canadian cities.

1966: Comedian Danny Thomas charms 1,000 attending a fundraising gala at the Idora Park Ballroom. Proceeds go to St. Jude’s Hospital in Memphis.

Barbara Brittain is crowned Girard Homecoming Queen before a capacity crowd in the St. Rose auditorium.

The NAACP says it will recommend black candidates to fill vacancies on the Sharon and Farrell school boards. The vacancies are to be filled by votes of the boards.

1941: United Airline service to the yet-to-be-opened Youngstown Municipal Airport is approved. A contingent of pilots and company officials brought a special $75,000 laboratory plane to the airport to test the facility and found everything in order.

Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts deliver contribution envelopes to Salem homes to raise $3,000 for the USO.

Kenneth Taylor, 14, of Salem, and Edward Lawson, 13, of Canfield, set out on a pony and horse on a planned 1,000-mile trip west that is expected to take six weeks.