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Today is Friday, June 24, the 176th day of 2016. There are 190 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1509: Henry VIII is crowned king of England; his wife, Catherine of Aragon, is crowned queen consort.

1793: The first republican constitution in France is adopted.

1939: The Southeast Asian country Siam changes its name to Thailand.

1946: Fred M. Vinson is sworn in as the 13th chief justice of the United States, succeeding the late Harlan F. Stone.

1964: AT&T inaugurates commercial “Picturephone” service between New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. (the service, however, never caught on).

1975: One hundred thirteen people are killed when Eastern Airlines Flight 66, a Boeing 727 carrying 124 people, crashes while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.

1983: The space shuttle Challenger – carrying America’s first woman in space, Sally K. Ride – coasts to a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

2011: A defiant U.S. House votes overwhelmingly to deny President Barack Obama the authority to wage war against Libya, but Republicans fall short in an effort to actually cut off funds for the operation.

2015: A federal judge in Boston formally sentences Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for the 2013 terror attacks.

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1991: Entering the first week of summer, the Mahoning Valley is on the verge of a drought with less than 2.5 inches of rain registered at the Youngstown Municipal Airport since May 1.

The largest percentage of rapes in the Greater Youngstown area occur in July and August, a study of 11 years of records by the Criminal Justice Department at Youngstown State University shows.

City of Warren and Youngstown State University officials unveil a plan for an early warning system to identify businesses that are in trouble and to aid failing companies.

1976: Youngstown City Council defunds the Civil Service Commission in an ongoing dispute over whether the tests being administered are relevant to the positions being filled.

Acting on a recommendation of Mayor Jack C. Hunter and police Chief Donald Baker, City Council votes to delete the position of chief of detectives in the Youngstown Police Department. The position would be filled in the future by a captain.

A small bomb damages the car of James Westerfield, a partner in the Park Inn on Glenwood Avenue. The car was parked outside Westerfield’s residence at 4700 West Blvd

1966: Two teenage Beloit girls are killed when their homemade motor scooter goes through a stop sign and into the path of a car.

The U.S. Department of Labor approves a grant of $44,420 to provide summer jobs for 100 students in Warren.

Walter H. Paulo reports that the Mahoning County Red Cross has reached only 43 percent of its goal to raise $21,737 for the organization’s work in Vietnam.

1941: Municipal Judge Peter B. Muholland continues to ignore a city law department ruling and fixes 134 traffic tickets in the past month, down from 167 a month before.

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in Akron demonstrates various types of tethered barrage balloons, which are designed to fly over strategic sites and confound incoming bombers.

Vera V. Barger, general secretary of the Honolulu YWCA, is named general secretary of the Youngstown YWCA.