YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 25

Today is Sunday, June 25, the 176th day of 2017. There are 189 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1530: The Augsburg Confession, a statement outlining the articles of faith of the Lutheran Church, is presented to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg.

1788: Virginia ratifies the U.S. Constitution.

1867: Barbed wire is patented by Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio.

1876: Lt. Col. Colonel George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.

1910: President William Howard Taft signs the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which makes it illegal to transport women across state lines for “immoral” purposes.

1938: The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is enacted.

1947: “The Diary of a Young Girl,” the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, is first published.

1950: War breaks out in Korea as forces from the communist North invade the South.

1967: The Beatles perform their new song “All You Need Is Love” during the closing segment of “Our World,” the first live international telecast that was carried by satellite from 14 countries.

1973: Former White House Counsel John W. Dean begins testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up.

1981: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that male-only draft registration is constitutional.

1997: Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau dies in Paris at age 87.

2007: A suicide bomber blows himself up in the midst of a gathering of U.S.-allied tribal sheiks at a Baghdad hotel, killing 13 people.

Robert Zoellick wins unanimous approval of the World Bank’s board to become the institution’s next president.

2012: A divided U.S. Supreme Court throws out major parts of Arizona’s tough crackdown on people living in the U.S. without legal permission, while upholding a requirement for police to check the immigration status of those they stop for other reasons, but limiting the legal consequences.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: The Youngstown Water Department issues a formal reprimand to Youngstown State University for the “excessive” use of water in maintaining the campus.

Ohio Gov. George V. Voinovich blames election year politics for the refusal of the Legislature to go along with his request for higher tobacco and alcohol taxes to help solve a state budget deficit.

Alfred Tutela, a finalist for Youngstown schools superintendent, was paid to leave his job as head of Cleveland schools in 1990, but most observers say school board members were at fault, not Tutela.

1977: John Augenstein, superintendent of Youngstown diocesan schools, calls a Supreme Court ruling allowing some state aid to parochial schools” a great victory for parents and children.”

A spokesman for the Ohio Department of Transportation says metric highway signs put up during the John J. Gilligan administration will not be taken down, but no more will be erected given the Department of Transportation’s decision not to convert to metric signage.

Municipal Judge Leo P. Morley denies bail to Clyde Neely Jr., 19, the only adult arrested in the brutal mutilation and murder of Joseph DeLisio in Stambaugh Field. Three juveniles face charges in juvenile court.

1967: Robert Cooke, founder and president of the Mahoning County Council for Retarded Children, is honored at a 16th anniversary dinner at St. John’s Greek Orthodox Church.

Six mathematics seniors at Youngstown University are awarded assistantships and fellowships for graduate study: Mary Ann Cox, Carmela Petrillo, David Boor, Attila Mathe, Dennis Cherpack and Robert Byers.

1942: Asserting that “Youngstown can expect little consideration” in getting more buses for its overworked Youngstown Municipal Railway Co., Richard Graham, local transportation executive, says the only solution is to level out the peak loads.

Seventy-seven Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana county doctors and dentists have applied for commissions in the U.S. Medical Corps.

The Finnerty and Rochford families will hold their family reunion at Slippery Rock Pavilion in Mill Creek Park.