YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 20

YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 20

Today is Thursday, June 20, the 171st day of 2019. There are 194 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1782: Congress approves the Great Seal of the United States, featuring the emblem of the bald eagle.

1837: Queen Victoria accedes to the British throne after the death of her uncle, King William IV.

1863: West Virginia becomes the 35th state.

1893: A jury in New Bedford, Mass., finds Lizzie Borden not guilty of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.

1943: Race-related rioting erupts in Detroit; federal troops are sent in two days later to quell the violence that resulted in more than 30 deaths.

1975: Steven Spielberg’s shark thriller “Jaws” is released by Universal Pictures.

1990: South African black nationalist Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, arrive in New York City for a ticker-tape parade in their honor as they began an eight-city U.S. tour.

1994: O.J. Simpson pleads not guilty in Los Angeles to the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

2014: The Obama administration grants an array of new benefits to same-sex couples, including those living in states where gay marriage is against the law; the new measures range from Social Security and veterans benefits to work leave for caring for sick spouses.

2018: President Donald Trump abruptly reverses himself and signs an executive order halting his administration’s policy of separating children from their parents when they are detained illegally crossing the border.

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1994: Robert Lucarell, the only employee left at the Avanti auto plant on Albert Street that closed in 1991, says he gets calls almost every day from crackpots who say they want to buy the plant and resume production.

Stan Boney, WYTV Channel 33’s weatherman, says meteorologists are “pretty doggone good for about three days out, but that fourth or fifth day ...” Boney says he’s probably worn about 4,000 hats on air that viewers send in to him, which he says has been a good gimmick for the newscasts.

Trumbull County prosecutors say a woman who graduated from Stanford University has used at least 10 different IDs to defraud the Trumbull County welfare system of more than $18,000.

1979: Margaret Bernat, 16, is credited with saving her mother, brother and three sisters when she awakened to smoke and flames in the family’s Bruce Street home and alerted the other family members, who all escaped safely.

The governors of both Boys State and Girls State are Youngstown-area students, Jeffrey Rade of Boardman and Elizabeth Bernard of Liberty.

St. Francis Hospital in New Castle, Pa., will phase out its maternity and obstetrics services before construction starts on a new $12 million building.

1969: Youngstown’s Development Review Committee approves the design of a $1.4 million Salvation Army citadel planned for Walnut Street between Boardman and Front streets.

Four prisoners in the Trumbull County Jail are taken to Trumbull Memorial Hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation after a mattress caught fire in one of the cell blocks.

Laura Pilz, a junior at Boardman High School, finishes third in the girls extemporaneous division at the National Forensic League tournament at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

1944: City police officers will be instructed to close all bingo games, says Mayor Ralph O’Neill after city council tabled a proposed ordinance that would have regulated the games.

Eight boys qualified for the Youngstown Country Club Caddie Team: Eugene Desimon was low, followed by F. Vicarel, J. Rabel, D. Crater and F. Miller.

Miss Polly Thoman invites 30 friends to her father’s house in Woodworth for a going-away party for her brother, Karl, who is leaving for military service.