Friday, June 14, 2019
Today is Friday, June 14, the 165th day of 2019. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1775: The Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, is created.
1777: The Second Continental Congress approves the design of the original American flag.
1940: German troops enter Paris during World War II; the same day, the Nazis begin transporting prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
1943: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that public school students could not be forced to salute the U.S. flag.
1954: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a measure adding the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.
1982: Argentine forces surrender to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands.
1990: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds police checkpoints that examine drivers for signs of intoxication.
1999: About 15,000 NATO peacekeepers spread out across Kosovo, including a convoy of about 1,200 U.S. Marines.
2017: A rifle-wielding gunman opens fire on Republican lawmakers at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., wounding House Whip Steve Scalise and several others; the assailant dies in a battle with police.
VINDICATOR FILES
1994: The Wachusett School District near Worcester, Mass., offers the superintendent’s job to Youngstown’s school chief, Alfred Tutela. He says he’ll wait to see the proposed contract before deciding.
The Pennsylvania Senate unanimously approves legislation that would allow rape convictions without having to prove there was force or the threat of force. The legislation is a response to a state Supreme Court ruling that held that just saying “no” wasn’t enough to support a rape conviction.
Federal agents arrest 40 people in Mahoning, Trumbull, Summit, Stark, Portage and Cuyahoga counties in a crackdown on stores – most of them small and in poor neighborhoods – that traded food stamps for money or items not allowed to be purchased with the stamps.
1979: The state approves a $3 million plan that would replace the 2,000-foot Girard-McDonald viaduct, which is Trumbull County’s longest span, with two smaller bridges connected by a landfill on the McDonald side of the Mahoning River.
Two Mahoningtown men are in the Lawrence County jail, charged with slaying Pennsylvania state policemen Albert Izzo during a drug raid at a Cherry Street house.
Twenty-four law enforcement officers from the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department and area police departments conduct a series of surprise drug raids, arresting 21 people.
1969: Truck and automotive headlamp production of the C.H. Hall Lamp Co. Division of Leader International Industries will be moved from Detroit to the Mullins Manufacturing Division in Salem.
James Bosley, 17, of West Farmington, dies after he dove 18 feet off the Grand River Bridge on Route 213-C into 3 feet of water, striking his head.
John Watt, Pleasant Valley Road, Girard, is the new principal of John W. Davis Elementary School in Austintown, succeeding Miss May Slaven, who retired.
1944: Fire Chief Clarence Thomas appoints Guy N. Zupp, 36, to the Youngstown Fire Department.
The Youngstown planning commission is considering the creation of a budget for the commission so that a full-time director and staff may be hired to prepare a long-range master plan for the city.
A study by the taxation committee of the Chamber of Commerce says Youngstown is facing a $61,000 shortfall in its budget for handling garbage in 1944.