YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 23

Today is Sunday, June 23, the 174th day of 2019. There are 191 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1537: Spanish explorer Pedro de Mendoza, the founder of Buenos Aires, dies aboard his ship while heading back to Spain.

1836: Congress approves the Deposit Act, which contains a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states.

1868: Christopher Lat-ham Sholes receives a patent for his “Type-Writer,” featuring a QWERTY keyboard; it was the first commercially successful typewriter.

1892: The Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominates former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.

1938: The Civil Aeronautics Authority is established.

1947: The Senate joins the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, designed to limit the power of organized labor.

1950: Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501, a DC-4, crashes into Lake Michigan with the loss of all 58 people on board.

1968: A nationally syndicated newspaper column by Joseph Kraft coins the term “Middle America.”

1969: Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the United States by the man he is succeeding, Earl Warren.

1972: President Richard Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman discuss using the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation sparked Nixon’s resignation in 1974.)

President Nixon signs Title IX barring discrimination on the basis of sex for “any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”

1985: All 329 passengers and crew aboard an Air India Boeing 747 are killed when the plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland because of a bomb authorities believe was planted by Sikh separatists.

1988: James E. Hansen, a climatologist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, tells a Senate panel that global warming of the earth caused by the “greenhouse effect” is a reality.

1995: Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first vaccine to halt the crippling rampage of polio, dies in La Jolla, Calif., at age 80.

2009: Hardening the U.S. reaction to Iran’s disputed elections and bloody aftermath, President Barack Obama condemns the violence against protesters and lends his strongest support yet to their accusations that the hardline victory was a fraud.

“Tonight Show” sidekick Ed McMahon dies in Los Angeles at 86.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Weathersfield Township trustees approve a 10-year tax abatement plan for a proposed $3.8 million Truck World Inc. travel center at West Liberty Street and Salt Springs Road that would employ 42 people.

In response to complaints by Boardman Township trustees, state Rep. Ron Gerberry, D-Austintown, introduces a bill that would give urban townships more control over how close to a residence gas wells can be drilled.

A Kansas man who owes $40,000 in child support for his three children who live in Poland is the first person to be indicted in Ohio under a new federal law that makes it a criminal offense to willfully fail to pay child support.

1979: The Ohio Bureau of Employment Services awards Ed Kutevac, former Trumbull County planning director, $4,432 in unemployment compensation resulting from his firing in 1978.

A program to inoculate Ohio’s Amish population against polio is going surprisingly well, state health officials say, as members of the sect in 25 counties cooperate.

Performances by the W.D. Packard Band in Warren during July and August will feature guest performers Herbie Mann, Roger Williams, the Jerry Ames Dance Company and Bob McGrath, host of “Sesame Street.”

1969: The Rev. John Rommack, 42, pastor emeritus of St. Nicholas Church, Wilson Avenue, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital. He had taken early retirement due to arthritis.

Shirley Hapcic of McDonald, a junior majoring in business education at Youngstown State University, is named 1969-70 sweetheart of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity.

The Rev. Don R. Adams will assume charge of Canfield Methodist Church.

1944: Theodore Jones, dean of boys at Salem High School, resigns to take a job in industrial relations with Seiberling Rubber Co. at Barberton. He will be succeeded by Lorin D. Early.

Seven district men are reported missing in action overseas: Pfc. Salvadore D. Fond and S/Sgt. Robert J. Marstellar of Youngstown, S/Sgt. Lawrence Rock of Hubbard, 2nd Lt. Charles Marcy of of Conneaut and S/Sgt. Harry Shirey of Ellwood City, Pa., are missing in the European area and First Lt. Raymond E. Bartheelmy of Ashtabula and T/Sgt. Martin Sefcik of Butler, Pa., are missing in the Mediterranean.

Ohio’s amended gamb-ling law, which permits gambling games for charitable purposes, is in conflict with the state constitution, says Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge David Jenkins. He refuses to issue an order restraining police from halting bingo games.