Today is Wednesday, June 9, the 161st day of 2004. There are 205 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, June 9, the 161st day of 2004. There are 205 days left in the year. On this date in 1954, in one of the most dramatic confrontations of the Senate-Army Hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch denounces Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's attack on a member of Welch's law firm, Frederick G. Fisher. Says Welch to McCarthy: "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
In A.D. 68, the Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide. In 1870, author Charles Dickens dies in Godshill, England. In 1940, Norway surrenders to the Nazis during World War II. In 1953, about 100 people die when a tornado strikes Worcester, Mass. In 1969, the U.S. Senate confirms Warren Burger to be the new chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren. In 1973, Secretariat becomes horse racing's first Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning the Belmont Stakes. In 1978, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints strike down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood. In 1980, comedian Richard Pryor suffers almost fatal burns at his San Fernando Valley, Calif., home when a mixture of "free-base" cocaine explodes. In 1993, as millions of Japanese watch on television, Crown Prince Naruhito weds commoner Masako Owada in an elaborate Shinto religious ceremony. In 1999, the House of Representatives votes 244-178 in favor of having the United States defy the international arms embargo on Bosnia. In 1999, after 78 days of intense NATO airstrikes, Yugoslav and Western generals sign a pact clearing the way for a Kosovo peace plan. In 2003, as rebels bear down on the capital of Liberia, French helicopters rescue more than 500 Americans, Europeans and other foreigners.
June 9, 1979: New Castle City Council approves a four-year contract allowing a go-kart concession at Cascade Park. Phillip Gallo will own and operate the concession.
Members of the Youngstown Men's Garden Club plant petunias and marigolds in concrete planters throughout Federal Plaza.
The Right Rev. Bishop Christopher, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church of Easter America, is making his first visit to Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church in Youngstown.
June 9, 1964: Lightning is blamed for a 12-hour power failure that affected much of Liberty Township, causing several thousand dollars of lost business and some food spoilage in the Liberty Plaza.
Two Jackson Milton High School girls, Kathy Lynne Finch and Marie Breznai, leave for 10-week stays in South America. Kathy Lynn will go to Colombia and Marie will go to Ecuador.
Youngstown's Park and Recreation Commission votes unanimously to open the city's 40 playgrounds and six pools despite City Council's failure to allocate $40,000 that the commission says it needs to hire 279 summer employees to run the programs.
June 9, 1954: Failure to build the Mahoning-Grand River floodway, providing the Mahoning Valley with more adequate control of its critical water supplies, would shut off expansion of Warren, one of Ohio's most rapidly developing industrial areas, warns Thomas J. Carney, chairman of the Mahoning County Board of Commissioners, during a public hearing.
A lone "no" vote by 2nd Ward Councilman John Palermo kills emergency legislation that would enable municipal judges to put persons convicted of possession of gambling equipment or of gambling behind bars for as much as six months. One other councilman, George Stowe, left the meeting early to catch a plane, depriving the ordinance of the six votes it needed for emergency passage.
June 9, 1929: Stabbed through the heart in a free-for-all fight at a boarding house, Frank Taylor, 35, of Depot Street, Niles, dies en route to Warren City Hospital.
The federal government will hire 259 enumerators to take the 1930 census in the 19th Congressional District, of which 136 will be selected from Mahoning County. Another 122 enumerators will be employed in Ashtabula.
Nonmembers of the Mahoning County Bar Association can be investigated for misconduct and unprofessional ethics the same as any member in full standing, according to the association's new constitution, made public by President F. R. Hahn.