YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 21

Today is Wednesday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2017. There are 193 days left in the year. Summer begins at 12:24 a.m. Eastern time.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1788: The U.S. Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify it.

1954: The American Cancer Society presents a study that found men who regularly smoked cigarettes died at a considerably higher rate than nonsmokers.

1963:Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is chosen during a conclave of his fellow cardinals to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope takes the name Paul VI.

1964: Civil-rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney are slain in Philadelphia, Miss. Their bodies would be found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.

1977: Menachem Begin becomes Israel’s sixth prime minister.

1982: A jury finds John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three other men.

1997: The WNBA debuts as the New York Liberty team defeats the host Los Angeles Sparks 67-57.

2012: Miami’s LeBron James caps his title bid with 26 points to lead the Heat in a 121-106 rout of the Oklahoma City Thunder to win the NBA Finals in five games.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: The board of trustees of Youngstown State University elects Michael Monus as board chairman. The board also proposes a budget that would eliminate 108 positions, most through attrition.

Drought conditions are forcing Mahoning Valley residents to conserve water, but users of the Mosquito and Meander reservoirs agree that long-term conservation policies will be needed.

The Joseph Badger High School Ecology Team will compete in Maryland in August for the national Environthon title after winning the Ohio Environthon.

1977: An 18-year-old Austintown girl, Jayne Harvey, is killed in a collision between a WRTA bus and the Volkswagen in which she was riding at Burkey and South Raccoon roads. The traffic light there was not working.

Atty. Charles H. Owsley is elected president of the Youngstown Players.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development gives the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority an OK to negotiate for the purchase of the Hotel Ohio downtown. It would be converted into housing for senior citizens.

The Youngstown Board of Control rejects both bids received for a cable television franchise in the city and says it will re-advertise for proposals.

1967: The Youngstown Board of Education receives a report from Ester Joyce, supervisor of school and community relations, summarizing 46 television programs presented to schools locally.

About 410 city youths age 6 to 19 participate in new evening activities set up by the Board of Education at seven play areas.

Al Glossbrenner will step down as chairman of the board of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Robert Doolittle will retire as vice president under the “retire at 65” rule.

1942: Heirs of Henry Stambaugh will resume a lawsuit against the city of Youngstown to recover land given for a municipal golf course on the grounds that the city failed to extend Fifth Avenue through the course, as required by the bequest.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. employees are joining the tin-can collection drive to help supply more scrap and to conserve tin.