Local history

June 28, 1959: Albert Lea Area Shrine Club and Albert Lea Aviation sponsored an event at the municipal airport. Approximately 600 residents took advantage of the opportunity to take a flight and see Albert Lea from the air.

June 27, 1969:  The citizens of Wells began the town’s 100th birthday celebration. Wells Mayor Gunnar Frey was pictured in The Evening Tribune holding a proclamation declaring it centennial week and inviting all area residents to join the party.

June 27, 1979: Albert Lea Area Vocational Technical Institute students donated their time and energy to do some community service. The class in the electrical construction program wired garages at Freeborn County Welfare Department’s boys’ and girls’ group homes.

June 27, 1989: Cmdr. Paul Oftedahl of Leo Cary Post 56 presented a Certificate of Continuous Membership to C.E. “Charlie” Myers, who joined the American Legion in 1919.

June 28, 1989: Local 6 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union signed an agreement of recognition with Hudson Foods Inc. for the company’s Albert Lea facility.

 

U.S. history

1788: Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution.

1910: President William Howard Taft signed the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for “immoral” purposes.

1943: Congress passed, over President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s veto, the Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act, which allowed the federal government to seize and operate privately owned war plants facing labor strikes.

1962: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that recitation of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional.

1973: Former White House Counsel John W. Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up.

1996: A truck bomb killed 19 Americans and injured hundreds at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia.

2003: The Recording Industry Association of America threatened to sue hundreds of individual computer users who were illegally sharing music files online.

2009: Death claimed Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” in Los Angeles at age 50 and actress Farrah Fawcett in Santa Monica, California, at age 62.

2014: In an emphatic defense of privacy in the digital age, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that police generally may not search the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants.

2018: Facing rising costs from new tariffs, Harley-Davidson announced that it would begin shifting the production of motorcycles sold in Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas.

 

— Information from Albert Lea Tribune archives and the Associated Press.