YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 24

Today is Monday, June 24, the 175th day of 2019. There are 190 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1497: The first recorded sighting of North America by a European takes place as explorer John Cabot spots land, probably in present-day Canada.

1807: A grand jury in Richmond, Va., indicts former Vice President Aaron Burr on charges of treason and high misdemeanor.

1948: Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the Western allies to organize the Berlin Airlift.

1957: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Roth v. United States, rules 6-3 that obscene materials are not protected by the First Amendment.

1983: The space shuttle Challenger – carrying America’s first woman in space, Sally K. Ride – coasts to a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

1992: The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, strengthens its 30-year ban on officially sponsored worship in public schools, prohibiting prayer as a part of graduation ceremonies.

2004: Federal investigators question President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.

2018: President Donald Trump compares people entering the U.S. from Mexico to invaders and said they should be immediately sent back without appearing before a judge.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: A federal jury in Cleveland declares it is hopelessly deadlocked in the fraud and embezzlement trial of Michael I. Monus, former chief executive of Phar-Mor.

Youngstown State University trustees are studying an $86.1 million general fund budget for 1995, an increase of nearly $3.6 million.

Scott Ketchum, a caseworker with the Columbiana County Mental Health Center, is credited with saving a 15-year-old boy who crashed through a window on the third floor of the Columbiana Courthouse after being ordered held on marijuana and gun charges. He was hanging onto a ledge by his fingertips when Ketchum pulled him to safety

1979: Paul Schroeder, The Vindicator’s Columbus correspondent, will accompany Gov. James A. Rhodes on an 18-day economic development trip to China. State Sen. Harry Meshel and CASTLO’s George Wilson also will be on the trip.

Unidentified toxic materials are flowing into Youngstown’s wastewater treatment plant, and it’s expected to cost the city $80,000 to find out what they are and where they are coming from.

Delores J. Smith, a Youngstown native, returns to the area from New York City to take the position of director of the troubled Warren-Trumbull Community Service Agency.

1969: Burglars open the safe of the Youngstown Humane Society office in the Mahoning County jail building and make off with $4,000.

Walter Gregg of Sewickley, Pa., is elected president of Sharon Steel Corp., Chairman Victor Posner announces. He succeeds George Perrault Jr.

Mary Mack, 63, of Alliance is found beaten to death along Penn Central Railroad tracks in a wooded area a half mile from her Webb Street home.

1944: Randal Hendricks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hendricks of Youngstown, is promoted from captain to major and has shot down his fifth German plane.

Lt. J.L. Carter, a graduate of Scienceville High School serving at Camp Selby, Miss., is assigned to a medical division.

With the War Bond drive half over, Mahoning County has raised only 10 percent of the $11 million individual bond goal.