YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 17

June 17, 2019 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, June 17, the 168th day of 2019. There are 197 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1579: Sir Francis Drake arrives in present-day northern California, naming it New Albion and claiming English sovereignty.

1775: The Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill results in a costly victory for the British, who suffer heavy losses.

1930: President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which boosts U.S. tariffs to historically high levels, prompting foreign retaliation.

1963: The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down, 8-1, rules requiring the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer or reading of biblical verses in public schools.

1972: President Richard Nixon’s eventual downfall begins with the arrest of five burglars inside the Democratic headquarters in Washington, D.C.’s, Watergate complex.

1994: After leading police on a slow-speed chase on Southern California freeways, O.J. Simpson is arrested and charged with murder in the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

2013: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states can’t demand proof of citizenship from people registering to vote in federal elections.

2015: Nine people are shot to death in a historic African-American church in Charleston, S.C.; suspect Dylann Roof is arrested the following morning. (Roof was sentenced to life in prison without parole.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Yellow Duck Park in Canfield, known for its swimming hole and holiday light shows, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Thomas J. Erb, 37, files a class-action suit against the city of Salem and its mayor, Alvahn Mondell, claiming the mayor’s court is fundamentally unconstitutional because the mayor has too many conflicts of interest in deciding to fine motorists.

Superintendent Alfred Tutela says plunging achievement scores by Youngstown students are the result of a 28-day teachers strike in the fall, but John Senzarin, president of the teachers union, says Tutela’s learning-center program is at fault.

1979: More than 400 relatives, friends and fellow police officers fill St. Anthony Church in Bessemer, Pa., for the funeral of State Trooper Anthony Izzo, 35, who was shot and killed during a drug raid in Mahoningtown.

The Youngstown State University Board of Trustees elects Edgar Giddens, 51, chairman of the board, succeeding William J. Lyden.

Tuition at YSU will increase $20 per quarter, bringing the new instructional charge to $230 a quarter or $690 per year.

1969: Andrew Klempay & Sons of Canfield , a house-moving company, files suit against the city of Garfield Heights, which enacted an ordinance making house-moving illegal

Lloyd Dalbey, 73, of Boardman, long-time director and secretary-treasurer of Aetna Standard Engineering Co., is pronounced dead of a heart attack at South Side Hospital.

Record-breaking low temperature records is getting to be a habit this spring in the Youngstown area and another one fell with 40 degrees at the Youngstown Municipal Airport, beating the record of 42 set in 1964.

1944: The bodies of Gloria and Dolores DeAngelis, age 16 and 12, are found in Idora Park pool after a search is launched when they did not return home from the park. It is believed that one girl drowned while diving to save the other.

Mrs. James Elder of Struthers, a 31-year-old widow, and her companion, Marine Pvt. Ralph Nelson, 30, are killed when the car she was driving hit a pole and a tree on Canfield Road.

A train roared into Erie Station and a tanned Pvt. Joseph Smith of Youngstown, leaning on a cane, rushed to see his mother and his twin brother, Pfc. Wilford Smith, whom he hadn’t seen in three years. Joe has a Purple Heart.