Today is Monday, June 27, the 179th day of 2016. There are 187 days left in the year.

Today is Monday, June 27, the 179th day of 2016. There are 187 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1787: English historian Edward Gibbon completes work on his six-volume work, “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”

1905: The Industrial Workers of the World is founded in Chicago.

1944: During World War II, American forces liberate the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans.

1957: More than 500 people are killed when Hurricane Audrey slams through coastal Louisiana and Texas.

1974: President Richard Nixon opens an official visit to the Soviet Union.

1990: NASA announces that a flaw in the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope is preventing the instrument from achieving optimum focus.

1991: Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court, announces his retirement. (His departure led to the contentious nomination of Clarence Thomas to succeed him.)

2006: A constitutional amendment to ban desecration of the American flag dies in a Senate cliffhanger.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Mr. and Mrs. George Schreckengost of East Palestine receive official notification that their son, Marine Corps Sgt. Fred T . Schreckengost, was shot and killed while trying to escape from Viet Cong forces in 1964. His remains have been recovered from a potato patch in Vietnam and will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

A disgruntled former employee of the Veterinarian Company of America on South Main Avenue in Warren shoots and kills two former co-workers and wounds another. The assailant fled on foot and is being sought by police.

A proposed budget in the Ohio Senate would virtually wipe out a program that provides the bulk of funding for the Youngstown State University Center for Urban Studies and Center for Human Services.

1976: Carl L. Dennison, managing partner in Butler Wick & Co., Youngstown brokerage firm, is elected chairman of the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees.

With a tightening energy crisis, some Mahoning Valley industries are stepping up the development of their own wells or encouraging emerging new companies to drill wells, creating a new gas and oil-drilling boom.

Dr. Charles Waltner, superintendent of Woodside Receiving Hospital for 18 years, is retiring effective June 30.

1966: High water pressure in Niles damages some meters and causes lines to break on Warren Avenue, Neil and Holford streets. The pressure rose after the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District closed lines leading to Austintown so that broken pipes there could be repaired.

Austintown sailor John Jackubec, 20, is credited with discovering a fire and sounding the alarm aboard the minesweeper U.S.S. Stalwart in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The ship was heavily damaged.

William Hahn, 18, of Austintown receives his Eagle Scout badge. It is presented by Thomas Heckert, Austintown Fitch football coach.

1941: Spurred by the acute need for defense steel, some Youngstown mills will work through the Fourth of July without stopping production, one of the few times this has happened in industrial history.

A horse show, target shooting and lots of music will be featured at the Mahoning Valley Variety Sports show at the Canfield Fairgrounds.

Three Niles men, William V. Litvin, Richard T. Baldwin and Robert E. Daley, are working for their wings in the U.S. Army Air Corps at Goodfellow Field