YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 15

Today is Saturday, June 15, the 166th day of 2019. There are 199 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1215: England’s King John puts his seal to the Magna Carta (“the Great Charter”) at Runnymede.

1520: Pope Leo X issues a papal bull in which he threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther if he does not recant his religious beliefs, a threat that Leo would carry out the following January.

1864: Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton signs an order establishing a military burial ground, which became Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act making the National Guard part of the U.S. Army in the event of war or national emergency.

1944: American forces began their successful invasion of Saipan during World War II. B-29 Superfortresses carry out their first raids on Japan.

1969: The variety show “Hee Haw,” a fast-paced mixture of country music and comedy skits, debuts on CBS-TV.

1993: Former Texas Gov. John Connally, who was wounded in the gunfire that killed President John F. Kennedy, dies in Houston at age 76.

2018: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is jailed to await two criminal trials; a federal judge revokes his house arrest over allegations of witness tampering in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: A week before Trumbull County 911 is scheduled to go into full operation, several townships have refused to pay all or part of their 911 assessments.

Some businesses that cashed checks that had been stolen from Mahoning County say the county, not the merchants, should be responsible for the loss because the auditor’s office did not properly care for the checks.

Youngstown School Superintendent Alfred Tutela has accepted the superintendent’s job in Wachusett, Mass., near Worcester.

1979: Likening him to a hyena, Common Pleas Judge Elwyn V. Jenkins sentences Clyde Neely Jr. to life imprisonment for the murder of Joseph DeLisio.

A Youngstown police chase of a Girard Fire Department ambulance stolen from Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital ends with the arrest of the driver and damage to four city police cruisers and a parked car.

The trial of Steven T. Masters, 19, charged in the murder last February of his wife, Jodi, is postponed until Sept. 24 to give his attorney, Don L. Hanni Jr. additional time to prepare his defense.

1969: Atty. Nathaniel R. Jones tells the closing session of the NAACP Youth Council Rally that, “In this time of crisis it is up to the NAACP to resume its position of leadership in the struggle for civil rights.”

Cheryl Bell, a sophomore at the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University, will give a recital at Price Memorial AME Zion Church.

Two Youngstown men who graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy have received their assignments. Ensign Dale Gebhart is assigned to the cutter Campbell in New York City and Christopher Kreiler has been assigned to the cutter Winnebago in Hawaii.

1944: Sheriff Ralph Elser leads two more raids on gambling places, netting Justice of the Peace Bert Rosensteel’s court $750 in fines.

Flowers are growing on Central Square where nothing but Civil War cannon and sparse grass appeared before. The city water department paid for the six large beds of geraniums and other bright flowers.

A trio of Youngstown amateur boxers, Burl Charity, Ozzie Peguese and Eddie May, lost to Camp Reynolds soldiers in the Farrell Boosters Club outdoor card. Youngstown winners were Ken Atkins and Jim Fowler.