Today is Sunday, June 26, the 178th day of 2016. There are 188 days left in the year.

Today is Sunday, June 26, the 178th day of 2016. There are 188 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in

1483: Richard III begins his reign as King of England (he was crowned the following month at Westminster Abbey).

1870: The first section of Atlantic City, New Jersey’s Boardwalk is opened to the public.

1925: Charles Chaplin’s classic comedy “The Gold Rush” premieres at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.

1936: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is nominated for a second term of office by delegates to the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia.

1945: The charter of the United Nations is signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.

1950: President Harry S. Truman authorizes the U.S. Air Force and Navy to enter the Korean War.

1963: President John F. Kennedy visits West Berlin, where he delivers his famous speech expressing solidarity with the city’s residents, declaring: “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner).

1973: Former White House counsel John W. Dean tells the Senate Watergate Committee about an “enemies list” kept by the Nixon White House.

1988: Three people are killed when a new Airbus A320 jetliner carrying more than 130 people crashes into a forest during a demonstration at an air show in Mulhouse, France.

1990: President George H.W. Bush goes back on his “no-new-taxes” campaign pledge, conceding that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package worked out with congressional negotiators.

1996: The U.S. Supreme Court orders the Virginia Military Institute to admit women, or forgo state support.

2006: President George W. Bush says it is “disgraceful” that the news media had disclosed a secret CIA-Treasury program to track millions of financial records in search of terrorist suspects.

More than a foot of rain inundates Washington, D.C., toppling a 100-year-old elm tree on the White House lawn and causing flooding that closed major government departments.

2011: New York City’s gay pride parade turns into a carnival-like celebration of same-sex marriage as hundreds of thousands of revelers rejoice at the state’s new law giving gay couples the same marital rights as everyone else.

In Senegal, hundreds of Muslim protesters descend on a Jehovah’s Witness temple and a bar in Dakar, setting the buildings on fire in a rare instance of religious extremism in the normally moderate Islamic republic.

Top-ranked Yani Tseng wins the LPGA Championship at Locust Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York, by 10 strokes.

2015: A divided U.S. Supreme Court, in Obergefell v. Hodges, rules 5-4 that same-sex couples have the right to marry nationwide as it overturns bans in 14 states.

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and their wives visit Charleston, S.C., where nine black churchgoers had been shot to death; Obama eulogizes one of the victims, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who was pastor of the church and also a state senator.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: The Lordstown Board of Education opposes a move by General Motors to have its tax valuation decreased by $41 million, which would cost the school district $522,000 a year in revenue. Richard Biggs, board president, says the plant is actually devalued by $19 million.

Robert DeJulio, a member of the Hubbard Board of Education, wants the Hubbard Public Library to remove from its shelves books that he says alter the biblical account of Noah’s Ark and make the story secular.

Youngstown State University’s Williamson School of Business is one of 11 four-year schools to receive the first accreditations issued by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs.

1976: The National Conference of Catholic Bishops approves a Bicentennial Mass for 1976 that will be used throughout the 117 parishes of the Youngstown Diocese on Sunday July 4.

Ormond W. Long Jr., 21, of Salem is struck and killed by a hit-skip driver as he walked along the berm of South Raccoon Road at Leffingwell Road in Canfield Township.

On stage at the Kenley Players in Warren, Harvey Korman in “Norman Is that You?” The following week, Sonny Bono will star in “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.”

1966: A water shortage hits Austintown in the middle of a heat wave that has seen temperatures break 90 degrees for four straight days. A water- main break on state Route 46 left some neighborhoods high and dry and others with low pressure.

Fashion report: The popular length of skirts in the Youngstown area this season is about 4 inches above the knee.

1941: A throng estimated at 75,000 jams the downtown streets of Youngstown for The Vindicator’s fifth annual carriers parade, a noisy affair that features giant hot air balloons, floats and mummers.

Police Chief John Turnbull names six police cadets: John Terlesky, Wilbur J. Ross, William A. Miglets, Edward Przelomski, Theodore Harsney and Benjamin F. Smith.

Wean Engineering of Warren buys controlling interest of Borden Construction Co.