YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 28

Today is Wednesday, June 28, the 179th day of 2017. There are 186 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

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 sparked World War I.

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

1939: Pan American Airways begins regular trans-Atlantic air service with a flight that departs New York for Marseilles, France.

1944: The Republican National Convention in Chicago nominates New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for president and Ohio Gov. John W. Bricker for vice president.

1978: The Supreme Court orders the University of California-Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who argued he’d been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.

1989: About 1 million Serbs gather to mark the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.

2007: President George W. Bush’s immigration plan to legalize as many as 12 million immigrants while fortifying the border collapses in the Senate. The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list.

2012: The Affordable Care Act narrowly survives, 5-4, an election-year battle at the U.S. Supreme Court with the improbable help of conservative Chief Justice John Roberts.

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1992: Dr. Neil D. Humphrey, who is retiring after eight years as president of Youngstown State University, is joined by incoming president Leslie Cochran at YSU’s spring quarter commencement ceremonies.

Emanuel N. Catsoules, retiring superintendent of Youngstown public schools, says the students were the roses and politics the thorns during his 28-year career.

The East Palestine and New Waterford police departments install video cameras in their police cruisers to document traffic stops, especially those for drunken drivers.

1977: A 7-year-old boy, Mike Hazel, and his grandmother, Frances Perrocco, 62, die in a fire at their century-old farmhouse in North Lima. The boy’s father, Richard, was blown from the porch roof while trying to reach his son through a window.

The 1977 Trumbull County Fair opens its seven-day run under rainy skies.

The drive to raise $3 million for the Youngstown State University Sports Complex reaches its goal, says campaign chairman Frank C. Watson.

1967: The Youngstown City School District is without a director of adult education and two other supervisors after a motion to reappoint them fails to pass a Board of Education vote.

Elaine Brown of Salem is in New York City to begin a month’s European tour with the School Band of America.

Bricklayers Local Union 8 agrees with the Builders Association of Mahoning Valley on a $2.70 per hour raise over five years.

1942: A collection is planned of tin cans to bolster the nation’s supply of scrap.

Merchants whose shelves become more bare by the day are going to add savings stamps and bonds to their merchandise. Merchants will ask customers to take their change in defense stamps.

Women interested in defense work in industry are invited by Youngstown College to take an engineering drawing course taught by Wilbur Nichol.