YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 26

YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 26

Today is Wednesday, June 26, the 177th day of 2019. There are 188 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1870: The first section of the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., is opened to the public.

1917: The first troops of the American Expeditionary Force deployed to France during World War I land in St. Nazaire.

1963: President John F. Kennedy visits West Berlin, where he delivers his famous speech expressing solidarity with the city’s residents, declaring: “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner).

1977: Elvis Presley performs what would be his last concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis.

1990: President George H.W. Bush goes back on his “no-new-taxes” campaign pledge, conceding that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package worked out with congressional negotiators.

1993: President Bill Clinton announces the U.S. had launched missiles against Iraqi targets because of “compelling evidence” Iraq plotted to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush.

1997: The first Harry Potter novel, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling, is published in the United Kingdom.

2008: The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia as it affirms, 5-4, that an individual right to gun ownership exists.

2013: In deciding its first cases on the issue, the U.S. Supreme Court gives the nation’s legally married gay couples equal federal footing with all other married Americans and also clears the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California.

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1994: About 6,000 marchers participate in a “March for Jesus” in downtown Youngstown, one of the largest downtown gatherings in recent years.

More than a dozen detectives, many of them homicide specialists with the Pennsylvania State Police, are involved in the investigation of the June 15 murder of Bonnie Lou Dryfuse, 34, her two young daughters and a niece.

Youngstown Parks and Recreation Director Joseph McCrae says new sports and educational programs at city parks are aimed at bringing the community back to the parks and at reducing crime.

1979: Car haulers for Anchor Motor Freight Co. end their 15-day strike and will take their grievances to the National Labor Relations Board. The walkout had crippled delivery of Lordstown-built cars.

Two boys are charged in juvenile court with aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and auto theft in the death of Elaine Poullas, 20, of Campbell.

The Youngstown Area Arts Council kicks off its Arts on the Move program on Federal Plaza.

1969: Freeman Allen, 12, is in fair condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital with a gunshot wound of the right leg received while riding his bike. Police arrested a 59-year-old North Side man on a open charge based on an eye-witness account.

Clarence J. Strouss is named chairman of the board of trustees of Youngstown State University, succeeding Mrs. James L. Fisher, whose term on the board expired.

Dr. Merle Singer, Mahoning County health commissioner, and Sanitarian Harry Stockdale order that five township garbage dumps be closed by July 1.

1944: Youngstown has a new district Methodist superintendent, Dr. E.R. Romig of Alliance. The city also has two new ministers, the Rev. W.R. Bryenton at Belmont Church and the Rev. W.R. Hoover, assigned to Delason Avenue Church.

Lt. Gov. Paul Herbert urges the Ohio congressional delegation to support the Beaver-Mahoning Waterway, saying it would make more permanent Ohio’s place in the steel industry and help develop the state’s chemical, ceramic and other industries.

A large flag, a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wagner of Pine Lake Cabins, has been raised at the site of the Beaver Township Service Board at North Lima Square.