Today is Saturday, June 12, the 164th day of 2004. There are 202 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, June 12, the 164th day of 2004. There are 202 days left in the year. On this date in 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home. (O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial, but is eventually held liable in a civil action.)
In 1898, Philippine nationalists declare independence from Spain. In 1939, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y. In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers is fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Miss.; he was 37. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001.) In 1967, the Supreme Court strikes down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages. In 1971, Tricia Nixon and Edward F. Cox are married in the White House Rose Garden. In 1978, David Berkowitz is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of the six "Son of Sam" .44-caliber killings that had terrified New Yorkers. In 1979, 26-year-old cyclist Bryan Allen flies the man-powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel. In 1987, President Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, publicly challenges Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." In 1994, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the charismatic ultra-Orthodox Jewish leader, dies in New York at age 92. In 1999, thousands of NATO peacekeeping troops pour into Kosovo by air and by land; but in a surprising move, a Russian armored column enters Pristina before dawn to a heroes' welcome from Serb residents.
June 12, 1979: John Wayne, who appeared in 200 films and was a Hollywood star for five decades, dies after a five month battle with cancer at the age of 72.
Seven teachers, three of them holding half-day positions, are furloughed by the Sharon City School Board in an austerity move.
By a vote of 5 to 4, Warren City Council rejects an ordinance in support of a renewed national movement for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. The resolution was sponsored by Councilman Lee Miller. Among those who spoke in opposition were Herbert Laukhart, who questioned whether city council should be addressing national issues, and Councilman Willie Fulton, who said, "Women already got their equal rights."
June 12, 1964: A nine-year-old boy is crushed to death and four teenage girls are critically injured when a car hits a parked car and jumps the curb in Albert Street. Killed was Paul Amendolara. Police moved quickly to remove the drunken driver of the car from the scene as an angry crowd gathered around the car and mangled bicycle. In two other area car-bicycle accidents, John Holibonic, 8, of Campbell is killed and Albert Timko Jr., 13, son of a Warren patrolman, is seriously injured.
Mercy Hospital in Canton, one of four Catholic hospitals in the Youngstown Diocese, will close its doors and transfer its facilities to Timken Mercy Hospital.
Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton announces his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, vowing to provide the party with a choice to front-runner U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona.
June 12, 1954: Major Gen. Roger J. Browne, commander of the First Air Force, comes to Youngstown to tell Mayor Frank X. Kryzan that military necessity requires that he recommend establishment of an Air Force Reserve Center at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
The biggest traffic jam since closing of the Market Street Bridge delays many tired and hot motorists as they try to leave downtown Youngstown during the Friday 5 p.m. rush. Cars were backed up for blocks at several key intersections.
The 65th Ohio convention of the United Commercial Travelers of America, a fraternal organization of 188,000 members who are traveling men, professional men and businessmen, closes at the Hotel Pick-Ohio. About 400 delegates attended three days of activities.
June 12, 1929: The second annual pilgrimage of the State Garden Club arrives in Youngstown, its motor caravan stopping beside the cool waters of Lake Cohasset at Pioneer Pavilion.
Opening of the bathing beach at Lake Glacier has been indefinitely postponed to slight pollution of the Lake Glacier water. A Mill Creek Park police officer is patrolling the beach to keep bathers out of the water.
Ida Tarbell, noted writer and former member of several government commissions, returns to Poland Village after an absence of many years to renew old friendships with the people she knew as a teacher at the Poland Seminary.