YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 21

Today is Friday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2019. There are 193 days left in the year. Summer begins at 11:54 a.m. Eastern time.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1377: King Edward III dies after ruling England for 50 years; he is succeeded by his grandson, Richard II.

1788: The United States Constitution takes effect as New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify it.

1834: Cyrus Hall McCormick receives a patent for his reaping machine.

1964: Civil-rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney are slain in Philadelphia, Miss.; their bodies would be found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.

1973: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.

1982: A jury in Washington, D.C., finds John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three other men.

1989: A sharply divided Supreme Court rules that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.

2001: Death claims actor Carroll O’Connor at age 76 and blues musician John Lee Hooker at age 80.

2013: President Barack Obama nominates James Comey, a Bush-era Justice official, to head the FBI.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Salem School District employees agree to the first wage freeze in the district’s history, keeping the district out of the financial hole, says Superintendent Burton D. Schoffman.

John Bistrica of 530 Catalina Ave. returns to Youngstown after a trip to the beaches of Normandy, 50 years after he participated in the D-Day invasion.

Warren Mayor Daniel Sferra says the city would not save money by getting out of the jail business, but it would benefit by joining with Trumbull County to build a regional jail.

1979: Youngstown City Council delays approval for a 16-story downtown apartment building for senior citizens on the site of the old Tod Hotel.

A tentative agreement between Youngstown State University and the YSU Chapter of the Ohio Education Association provides salary increases for full-time faculty of 9.5 percent in each of the next two years.

Exactly 100 years after the first Woolworth 5 & 10 store opened in Lancaster, the board of directors held its annual stockholders meeting in the Pennsylvania city. With 5,442 Woolworth and Woolco stores, the company is the fourth largest retailer in the nation, behind Sears, J.C. Penney and Kmart.

1969: Jesus Ramirez, 57, a bricklayer’s helper at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Campbell Works, is hit by a train pulling ingot molds and killed at the plant.

The Youngstown Transit Co. needs $100,000 in a subsidy or tax relief to continue operating due to fewer passengers and declining revenue, the board chairman discloses.

Six homes are evacuated and Route 62 traffic detoured for 10 hours after a gasoline truck overturns, dumping 3,000 gallons of fuel into storm sewers in front of Canfield City Hall.

1944: An architect will be sought by Mahoning County commissioners to oversee various improvements at the Mahoning Tuberculosis Sanatorium.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan is a luncheon guest of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. The men have been close friends since Kirwan served on the appropriations subcommittee.

Pvt. Charles Carabbia of Struthers, T/5 Ben Mosier of Ashtabula and Pvt. Leonard Coller of Hubbard are reported wounded on the Mediterranean front of World War II.