YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 22

Today is Thursday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2017. There are 192 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1611: English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people are set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.

1870: The U.S. Department of Justice is created.

1937: Joe Louis begins his reign as world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Jim Braddock in the eighth round of their fight in Chicago.

1940: During World War II, Adolf Hitler gains a stunning victory as France signs an armistice eight days after German forces overrun Paris.

1944: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the “GI Bill of Rights.”

1969:Singer-actress Judy Garland dies in London at 47.

1977: John N. Mitchell becomes the first former U.S. Attorney General to go to prison as he begins serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up.

1987: Actor-dancer Fred Astaire dies in Los Angeles at 88.

2012: Ex-Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is convicted by a jury in Bellefonte, Pa., on 45 counts of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years. (Sandusky is appealing a 30- to 60-year state prison sentence.)

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1992: A 33-year-old Jacobs Road man is arrested in the shooting deaths of Jannette Bell-Friersen, 33, and Carlson D. Isom, 21, Youngstown’s first homicides in nearly a month.

Wally Bell, 27, of Austintown is called up from umpiring Triple A baseball to the Major leagues, doing his first game at the Mets’ Shea Stadium.

Youngstown school officials ask the state for $7.5 million to expand Choffin Career Center, the first step in the closing of at least two city high schools.

1977: Youngstown Police Chief Donald Baker and Mrs. Baker meet backstage at the Kenley Players in Warren with actor Hal Linden, who plays a precinct captain in the title role of TV’s “Barney Miller.” Linden played a fast-talking con man in Kenley’s production of “Kismet.”

Ten contestants are vying for queen of the Niles Fourth of July celebration: Kelly Williams, Peg King, Cindy Cozad, Lori Accordino, Dawn Blue, Tomi Liptak, Kyle Blue, Loretta Rossi, Deloris Goldsmith and Pam Squiric.

The Chicago office of the Environmental Protection Agency rejects the Ohio Edison Co.’s schedule to comply with clean-air standards for 10 of its coal-fired plants, including those in Youngstown, Niles and East Palestine.

1967: Youngstown University would receive $12.3 million to operate as a state university for two years, which is $1.8 million more than the governor requested.

Judge Erskine Maiden denies an injunction barring construction of a $16 million Boardman shopping mall across from Boardman High School.

Gasoline being loaded into an 8,800-gallon tanker at the Standard Oil depot on Route 422 in Niles explodes, sending flames high into the night sky and attracting hundreds of spectators.

1942: Ten Navy fliers will be trained by Youngstown College and Hinkle Flying Services.

Campbell celebrates Flag Day and Father’s Day with a parade attended by 3,500.

Auxiliary firemen will extinguish a fire caused by incendiary bombs during a civilian-defense demonstration at Idora Park.

A new class of 350, mostly from the Youngstown area, is initiated into the Fraternal Order of Eagles at the state convention.