Thursday, June 27, 2019
Today is Thursday, June 27, the 178th day of 2019. There are 187 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1846: New York and Boston are linked by telegraph wires.
1944: During World War II, American forces liberate the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans.
1957: Hurricane Audrey slams into coastal Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm; the official death toll from the storm is placed at 390.
1974: President Richard Nixon begins an official visit to the Soviet Union.
1988: At least 56 people are killed when a commuter train runs into a stationary train at the Gare de Lyon terminal in Paris.
1991: Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court, announces his retirement.
2005: The Supreme Court rules, in a pair of 5-4 decisions, that displaying the Ten Commandments on government property is constitutionally permissible in some cases but not in others.
2008: North Korea destroys the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program, the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor at Yongbyon.
2014: Bobby Womack, 70, a colorful and highly influential R&B singer-songwriter who had influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, dies in Los Angeles.
2018: Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announces his retirement.
VINDICATOR FILES
1994: Consultants hired to evaluate the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District’s capital improvement program urge the city of Youngstown to keep a closer eye on how work is being authorized.
The Ursuline Sisters at 4250 Shields Road open “Angela’s Closet,” a pantry that will provide products that are not available with food stamps to patients with HIV and AIDS infections.
Dale Shipley, deputy director of the Ohio Emergency Management Agency, says the governor can urge conservation during a time of drought but has no legal authority to order residents to cutback on water usage.
1979: A 21-year-old mother of three and two of her children are found beaten to death in their East Liverpool home. Dead are Deborah Davis Taylor; a son, Jessie, 5, and a daughter, Billie Jo, 3. A third child slept through the killings and was unharmed.
The 36th annual Youngstown Charity Horse Show opens at the Canfield Fairgrounds with more than 1,000 animals competing in 212 classes.
1969: Fifth Ward Councilman Jack C. Hunter, Republican candidate for mayor, says Youngstown needs new leadership to meet the challenges of the 1970s.
Col. James William Foster, 50, a Chaney High School and Ohio State University graduate stationed at Scott Air Force Base near Belleville, Ill, is killed when his Cessna 172 single-engine plane crashes on a ranch near Lymon, Colo.
Firebombs cause about $600 damage to the Montella Isaly dairy store on Oak Street, scene of an altercation in which a pregnant woman charged she was struck by the store owner and a clerk
1944: “Best wishes, see you soon, well and happy, have recovered,” read a dramatic cable from Capt. Paul Brown informing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Brown, that he had escaped from the Germans and expects to be home.
Miss Helen Buttina, 19-year-old steelworker, was fatally injured in a crane accident at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Campbell Works. She is the first woman killed in a Mahoning Valley steel plant.
Three gunmen hold up Gus Zigoris, manager of the Boston Grill on East Federal Street and escape with $2,700. Zigoris and several customers were forced into a back room and ordered to lie on the floor during the robbery.