Today is Monday, June 19, the 170th day of 2017. There are 195 days left in the year.

Today is Monday, June 19, the 170th day of 2017. There are 195 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1865: Union troops arrive in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War is over, and that all remaining slaves in Texas are free – an event celebrated to this day as “Juneteenth.”

1867: Maximilian I, emperor of Mexico since 1864, is executed by firing squad a month after being taken prisoner by the forces of President Benito Juarez.

1917: During World War I, King George V orders the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames; the family took the name “Windsor.”

1952: The celebrity-panel game show “I’ve Got A Secret” debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host.

1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved by the U.S. Senate, 73-27, after surviving a lengthy filibuster.

1982: Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American auto engineer, is fatally beaten in Highland Park, Mich., by two auto workers who later receive probation for manslaughter in state court and win acquittals in federal court.

1987: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Edwards v. Aguillard, strikes down, 7-2, a Louisiana law requiring any public-school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creationism as well.

1999: Author Stephen King is seriously injured when he was struck by a van driven by Bryan Smith in North Lovell, Maine.

2016: LeBron James and his relentless Cavaliers pull off an improbable NBA Finals comeback to give the city of Cleveland its first title since 1964.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Alex Murphy, principal of The Rayen School who was passed over for an assistant superintendent’s job in 1991, accepts a high-school principal’s job in Baltimore County, Md.

Youngstown is seeking appraisals of Idora Park and 14 downtown properties that it wants to buy, then give to developers.

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins announces salary cuts for seven of his office’s 32 employees to offset a $35,000 shortfall in his budget. Watkins says he will handle all homicide prosecutions and special investigations.

1977: The city of Warren is removing 250 fire-alarm boxes from utility poles throughout the city, some of which date to the turn of the century.

The Rev. Charles W. Washam Jr., newly ordained deacon, is named assistant pastor of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Youngstown.

Glenn A. Ciolli, a 1970 graduate of Howland High School, earns a doctor of medicine degree from Ohio State University.

1967: Marine Pfc. Raymond Hahn Jr., a graduate of Boardman High School, is killed in action in Vietnam.

Shelley McCoy is crowned Girard’s 1967 Homecoming Queen before a capacity audience in St. Rose School gymnasium.

Irene Miller is installed president of the Youngstown Doll Study Society at the season’s final meeting at the home of Mrs. Arthur Wolfcale.

1942: Congressman Michael J. Kirwan announces that William D. Forsyth, Larry Gran and Robert John Webster have been appointed to the Naval Academy and William H. Stites to West Point.

Major Ray Allison, chief of the state draft classifications divisions, tells about 100 Mahoning Valley industrialists that industries must hire more men over 45 and more women.

Eleanor Whan, who has enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps and will be leaving soon to join a base hospital unit, is honored by bridge club associates during a dinner at the Steel City Club.