Local history

50 years ago: June 23, 1976

The Pathfinder Halfway House for Alcoholics, operated by Catholic Charities at 14th Avenue and 16th Street, was to close due to lack of funding from the Blair County Drug and Alcohol Council.

25 years ago: June 23, 2001

The Altoona Fire Department’s hazmat team, Reynold Santone fire chief, cleaned up a spill of liquid zinc phosphate that had spilled from a tractor-trailer in the Beverly Healthcare-Hillview parking lot. The truck was delivering cleaning agents to the nursing home.

10 years ago: June 23, 2016

Hollidaysburg Main Street Manager Michael Balchin said that the Canal Basin Visitors Center was reopened after being closed for two years due to a lack of volunteers. Hollidaysburg Borough was providing funds to hire two part-time workers.

— Compiled by Tim Doyle

World history

Today is Tuesday, June 23, the 174th day of 2026. There are 191 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history:

On June 23, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed into law the Education Amendments of 1972, including Title IX, which barred discrimination on the basis of sex for “any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

On this date:

– In 1888, abolitionist Frederick Douglass received one vote from the Kentucky delegation at the Republican convention in Chicago, making him the first Black candidate to have his name placed in nomination for U.S. president.

– In 1931, aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field in New York on an around-the-world flight that lasted eight days and 15 hours.

– In 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, designed to limit the power of organized labor.

– The Associated Press