YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 22

Today is Saturday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2019. There are 192 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1911: Britain’s King George V is crowned at Westminster Abbey.

1918: A train carrying members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus and their families is rear-ended during an emergency stop by another train near Hammond, Ind., killing at least 86 people.

1937: Joe Louis begins his reign as world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Jim Braddock in the eighth round of their fight in Chicago.

1940: During World War II, Adolf Hitler gains a stunning victory as France is forced to sign an armistice eight days after German forces overran Paris.

1945: The World War II battle for Okinawa ends with an Allied victory.

1969: Singer-actress Judy Garland dies in London at age 47.

1970: President Richard Nixon signs an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that lowers the minimum voting age to 18.

1977: John N. Mitchell becomes the first former U.S. Attorney General to go to prison as he begins serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up. (He was released 19 months later.)

2008: Acerbic standup comedian and satirist George Carlin dies in Santa, Monica, Calif., at age 71.

2012: Ex-Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is convicted by a jury in Bellefonte, Pa., on 45 counts of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Sharon City Council enacts a resolution “prohibiting the use of playground equipment by children over the age of 14.” Councilman Louis Rotunno says he saw two boys of about 16 years of age chase younger children off a playground.

Trumbull County’s 911 emergency dispatching system officially goes into full operation.

Mahoning Valley authorities say the O.J. Simpson case is putting a spotlight on domestic abuse and how it can escalate. Youngstown Prosecutor Maureen Cronin says prominent and professional people are embarrassed and less likely to report abuse.

1979: Violence accompanying the independent truckers strike reaches into Mercer County, Pa., when someone throws two rocks through the windshield of a truck on Interstate 80, injuring the driver, Stephen R. Ketchum, 30, of New Castle.

A random Vindicator survey of area gas stations finds two are out of gasoline, five are cutting back hours and expect to run out soon and six have adequate-to-good supplies.

Forty-two car carriers leave Anchor Motor Freight in Lordstown with a police escort, defying roving Teamsters pickets who have blocked the shipment of cars from GM’s Lordstown plant.

1969: A communitywide campaign for $1.7 million is launched to help meet part of the $14 million wing for St. Elizabeth Hospital. Ambrose J. Wardle Jr. will head the drive.

The city of New Castle, Pa., prepares to celebrate the centennial of its incorporation in 1869, even though it celebrated its sesquicentennial in 1948, marking 150 years from the day in 1798 when John Carlysle Stewart arrived there.

Four Poland girls will play in the senior high divsion of the 17th annual Summer Band school at William and Mary College. They are Darlene Fain, Janet Fryman, Maryellen Kostyo and Gail Mather.

1944: Mayor Ralph O’Neill says Robert Cross Taylor, 50, will face charges of possessing gambling equipment after a police raid on a Disabled American Veterans bingo game.

Youngstown retail jewelers will stage an extra War Bond Show at the Palace Theater.

The People’s Drug Store money-saving sale has Listerine toothpaste for 33 cents, Pepto-Bismal 4 oz. bottle for 47 cents and a pound of assorted chocolates for $1.50.