YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, June 28, the 180th day of 2016. There are 186 days left in the year.

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1778: The Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth takes place in New Jersey; from this battle arose the legend of “Molly Pitcher,” a woman who was said to have carried water to colonial soldiers, then taken over firing her husband’s cannon when he was injured.

1836: The fourth president of the United States, James Madison, dies in Montpelier, Va.

1838: Britain’s Queen Victoria is crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, are shot to death in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip – an act that sparks World War I.

1919: The Treaty of Versailles is signed in France, ending the First World War.

1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Alien Registration Act, also known as the Smith Act, which requires adult foreigners residing in the U.S. to be registered and fingerprinted.

1950: North Korean forces capture Seoul, the capital of South Korea.

1975: Screenwriter, producer and actor Rod Serling, 50, creator of “The Twilight Zone,” dies in Rochester, N.Y.

2015: Authorities in upstate New York capture David Sweat, one of two convicted murderers who’d escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6. Sweat was apprehended two days after his fellow escapee, Richard Matt, was shot and killed in a confrontation with law enforcement.

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1991: Roderick D. Davie is in the Warren City Jail, charged with two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of two former co-workers, Tracey L. Jefferys, 21, and John Coleman, 38, at Veterinary Company of America on S. Main Avenue in Warren. Friends said Davie stewed for weeks over losing his job at VCA.

A New York investment fund pours $200 million into Phar-Mor Inc., completing the first part of a two-phase financing plan the Youngstown retailer has for expanding as a national retailer.

1976: Astronaut Eugene Cernan is welcomed to Youngstown by the Slovak American Bicentennial Committee. He was a speaker during a banquet at the Sokol Center.

Norma Rhodes, 20, of Salem, a junior in home economics at Ohio State University, will represent the Ohio dairy industry as the 1976 Ohio Dairy Princess.

A Molotov cocktail is tossed into Sol’s United Market at 1908 Jacobs Road, causing more than $1,000 in fire damage.

1966: Doreen Lucci, a homemaker and mother of five children, graduates at the top of the class of the Youngstown Hospital Association School of Nursing.

Girard City Council discusses a plan to give police and firefighters pay raises based on longevity. They would receive pay raises of $2 per month per year of service up to $50 per month.

The Youngstown Park Department agrees to give the board of education a portion of Ipe Field for construction of a new junior high school, which is needed to relieve overcrowding at Wilson High School.

1941: Two railroad men, K.E. Foerster of Hubbard and G.G. Brown of New Castle, Pa., are killed when their Pennsylvania Railroad train, loaded with artillery shells, derails on the Niles-Alliance line, several miles west of Niles.

The Youngstown Browns defeat the Dayton Ducks, 5-4, to end a five-game losing streak.

The WPA, which once had more than 10,000 on its rolls in Mahoning County, is being reduced again, this time from 2,976 to 1,556. Officials estimate that about 500 of the displaced workers will end up on welfare rolls.