YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 30

June 30, 2019 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, June 30, the 181st day of 2019. There are 184 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1865: Eight people, including Mary Surratt and Dr. Samuel Mudd, are convicted by a military commission of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.

1918: Labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs is arrested in Cleveland, charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 for a speech he’d made two weeks earlier denouncing U.S. involvement in World War I.

1934: Adolf Hitler launches his “blood purge” of political and military rivals in Germany in what came to be known as “The Night of the Long Knives.”

1936: The Civil War novel “Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell is first published by The Macmillan Co. in New York.

1953: The first Chevrolet Corvette is built in Flint, Mich.

1963: Pope Paul VI is crowned the 262nd head of the Roman Catholic Church.

1966: The National Organization for Women is founded in Washington, D.C.

1982: The proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution expires, having failed to receive the required number of ratifications for its adoption.

1997: The Union Jack is lowered for the last time over Government House in Hong Kong as Britain prepares to hand the colony back to China at midnight after ruling it for 156 years.

2013: Nineteen elite firefighters known as members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots are killed battling a wildfire northwest of Phoenix after a change in wind direction pushes the flames back toward their position.

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1994: The Packard Electric Division of General Motors Corp. will have more autonomy from its parent company after the automaker announces during a press conference in Detroit that its component operations will be run as a separate company.

Winner International of Sharon, Pa., marketer of The Club anti-theft device for cars and trucks, files suit against three California companies to block the sale of knock-off devices being imported from China.

Reyers Shoe Store in Sharon, which bills itself as the largest shoe store in the world, plans to open an outlet store at the former Carlisle’s department store site in the Greater Boardman Plaza Shopping Center.

1979: A contract is signed by Youngstown and Indiana Airways of Indiana, Pa., to provide commuter service between Youngstown Municipal Airport and Pittsburgh. There will be six daily round-trip flights on nine-passenger, twin-engined Piper Navajo airplanes.

The Trumbull County Board of Education is seeking a project planner/coordinator to plan development and obtain resources for a new countywide solar energy-education program.

The 7th District Court of Appeals upholds the constitutionality of Youngstown’s consumer protection agency as it applies to the real-estate industry. Local Realtors challenged the law saying they are already regulated by the state.

1969: Trumbull County commissioners finalize the separation of Liberty Township from Girard and name three township trustees: Philip J. Adler Jr., Jack Edelmand and Arthur Haig. Russell Banner was named clerk.

Bart Lytton, a Youngs-town native who became the flamboyant head of the $500-million Lytton Financial Corp., dies of a heart attack in Los Angeles.

Miriam Jeanne Montgomery of Poland is awarded the silver wings of an American Airlines stewardess.

Dr. Sidney Franklin, former Youngstown health commissioner, dies in North Side Hospital. He was a practicing physician and attorney and was active in veterans affairs.

1944: Hundreds of downtown Youngstown employees will get a three-day breather as stores close from Sunday through the July 4th holiday Tuesday.

Luis Martine, former soldier who fatally shot Guy Jacobs, house detective at the Tod Hotel when Jacobs sought to question him, escapes with three other prisoners from the Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

The National Rivers and Harbors Congress calls a special session in New Orleans to try to untangle a legislative snarl that threatens to tie up the Beaver-Mahoning Waterway and other water projects.