YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, June 23, the 175th day of 2016. There are 191 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

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 had declared war against it five days earlier, rescinds its policy on neutral shipping, a major issue of contention between the two countries.

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.

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

2006: Vice President Dick Cheney denounces the revelation of an anti-terrorism program that tapped into an immense international database of confidential financial records.

2011:. “Columbo” actor Peter Falk dies in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 83.

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1991: The Vienna Fish and Game Club’s Junior Rifle Team sweeps the Penn-Ohio Junior Rifle League with a perfect 12-0 record for the second season in a row. Russell Evans, a Hubbard High School senior and member of the team, qualifies for the U.S. Rifle Team tryouts.

Student discipline cases at Youngstown State University nearly tripled, from 74 in 1989-90 to 224 in the 1990-91 school year, for fighting, visitation violations in dormitories and violation of quiet hours, a report by the student service office shows.

The Nation of Islam Security Agency has been hired by the owner of the Westview Terrace in New Castle, Pa., to patrol the housing development. Men in suits, white shirts and black bow ties patrol the neighborhood, and residents report a decrease in loitering and drug dealing since the men arrived in March.

1976: Fifty young guitarists, students of Sandy Jackintell’s, entertain the lunchtime crowd on Federal Plaza.

Great Western Steel Co., a subsidiary of Lykes Corp., will acquire the facilities of Standard Steel Products Co. at 11650 Mahoning Avenue, North Jackson.

The Youngstown Board of Health hires Robert Hewitt, a 1973 Youngstown State University graduate as its health educator at a salary of $10,813. Hewitt replaces Socrates Kolitsos, who held the position on an interim basis while on loan from the Community Development Agency.

1966: Richard Franklin Roach, 19, of East Liverpool is killed during night action in Vietnam, the first East Liverpool soldier to die in the war.

Three members of a Greenville family, William Mills, his wife, Irene, and 14-year-old daughter, Connie, drown while wading in the Shenango River.

Gus Hall, American Communist Party chief who has long ties to Youngstown, urges leftists to organize a political party to challenge Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1941: Emil Rosovitz, alias Jack Randall, the 31-year-old Youngstown man scheduled to be executed in 10 days, overpowers a guard at the Ohio Penitentiary and jumps to his death from the top of his six-tier cellblock. He had been sentenced to death for murder during a robbery at a Mahoning Avenue nightclub.

An estimated 26,000 people take a driving tour through parts of the Ravenna Arsenal for the first, and possibly last, public look at the facility. Traffic was backed up for 3 miles.