YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 28

Today is Friday, June 28, the 179th day of 2019. There are 186 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1778: The Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth takes place in New Jersey.

1838: Britain’s Queen Victoria is crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, are shot to death in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip – an act that would spark World War I.

1919: The Treaty of Versailles is signed in France, ending the First World War.

1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Alien Registration Act, also known as the Smith Act, which requires adult foreigners residing in the U.S. to be registered and fingerprinted.

1968: President Lyndon Johnson signs the Uniform Monday Holiday Bill, which moves commemorations for Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day and Veterans Day to Monday.

1978: The Supreme Court orders the University of California-Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who argued he’d been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.

1997: In a wild rematch, Evander Holyfield retains the WBA heavyweight boxing championship after his opponent, Mike Tyson, is disqualified for biting Holyfield’s ear during the third round.

2018: A man armed with a shotgun attacks a newspaper in Annapolis, Md., killing four journalists and a staffer before police storm the building and arrest him.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Farrell City Council approves hiring a consultant to determine the feasibility of converting the city’s fire department from a paid force to a volunteer one.

Poland Local Schools Superintendent Robert Zorn says enrollment continues to increase and is anticipated at a minimum of 2,456 for the coming school year, which will require finding additional classroom space.

Hubbard school officials hope to have a new 4,200-seat football stadium in use for the 1996 season.

1979: Some Mahoning Valley service stations have exhausted their June allocations of gasoline and have closed.

Youngstown City Council clears the way for construction of a 16-story apartment building for the elderly downtown.

A delegation of 100 Ohio elderly trek to Capitol Hill to lobby Congress for national health insurance. Dorothy Ryan of Liberty Township says the Ohio Council of Senior Citizens supports Sen. Edward Kennedy’s health-insurance plan.

1969: Wayne R. Taylor, 16, of West Middlesex, Pa., who was working at the Valley Block Division of Carbon Limestone, dies after falling into a large bin of finely ground limestone.

An 18-year-old East Side youth and five other teenagers are being questioned in the firebombing of Montella’s Isaly dairy store at 907 Oak St.

Sadie Bell, 27, whose daughter, Diana, was severely burned in 1966, is released from the Mahoning County Jail two months before the end of her 10-month sentence. The Rev. George Petro, Catholic chaplain at the jail, advocated the early release of the mother who was charged with negligence in allowing her daughter to come into contact with a hot stove.

1944: Youngstown City Council, facing criticism for poor garbage collection, will hold a special meeting to authorize the board of control to seek bids from private contractors.

Raymond T. Eckert, 28, of Youngstown is reported killed in action June 6, the first day of the invasion of France by Allied forces.

A telephone call from Sgt. Robert LaPaze was like hearing a voice from the dead. The call was taken by his mother-in-law who passed along the joyful news to his mother that Robert, listed as missing in action, is back in the United States.