YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, June 25, the 177th day of 2016. There are 189 days left in the year.

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1788: Virginia ratifies the U.S. Constitution.

1876: Lt. Col. Colonel George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.

1910: President William Howard Taft signs the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which makes it illegal to transport women across state lines for “immoral” purposes.

1950: War breaks out in Korea as forces from the communist North invade the South.

1962: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that recitation of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools is unconstitutional.

1981: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that male-only draft registration was constitutional.

1995: Warren Burger, the 15th chief justice of the United States, dies in Washington at age 87.

2009: Death claims Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” in Los Angeles at age 50 and actress Farrah Fawcett in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 62.

2015: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in a 6-3 ruling that preserves health insurance for millions of Americans.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: The Boardman Board of Education votes to sell bonds to fund continuing construction of a community sports complex. The Rotary and booster clubs have raised $250,000 of the $450,000 needed, but those efforts have hit a wall.

Emma Robinson, a 61-year-old grandmother who tried to break up an argument between her stepson and her grandson, is in critical condition in Southside Hospital with a gunshot wound of the chest.

Youngstown Board of Education Member Don L. Hanni III says that unless the board holds a meeting to reconsider the hiring of Douglas Hiscox as an assistant superintendent, he will file suit claiming that the procedure used to call the vote on Hiscox’s hiring violated Roberts Rules of Order

1976: Ethel M. Stewart of Girard wins the top prize in the Ohio Lottery’s Buckeye 1,000 contest, $1,000 a month for life. She is guaranteed at least $400,000.

Robert A. Ciotola of Boardman receives a law degree from Case Western Reserve School of Law and joins the Youngstown firm of Green, Schiavioni, Murphy and Haines.

Common Pleas Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt, sitting by assignment in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, rules that the removal of Liberty Fire Chief Arthur Carnahan by township trustees was illegal and political and orders his reinstatement and back pay of $4,505.

1966: Shirley Jones, 13, is named queen of the 1966 Youngstown Soap Box Derby. The St. Edward School freshman wrote the winning essay on “Why I Think a Boy Should Enter the Soap Box Derby.”

Hot weather brings an attendance record to the East Palestine City Park Pool, with 4,500 people going through the turnstiles in a single day.

The 910th Air Force Troop Carrier Group at Youngstown Municipal Airport completes a 15-day encampment with a Family Day celebration.

1941: Police departments from throughout the area are making plans in anticipation of huge crowds and large traffic jams July 1 when the Youngstown Municipal Airport is dedicated.

Members of Local 377, AFL Truck Drivers Union, will vote on an offer from the Mahoning County Motor Carriers Association that will raise the hourly rate of about 200 drivers from 70 cents to 77 cents.

The Youngstown Steel Car plant in Niles plans a new building in which 40 men will be employed building anti-aircraft gun carriers.