Today is Wednesday, June 16, the 168th day of 2004. There are 198 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, June 16, the 168th day of 2004. There are 198 days left in the year. On this date in 1858, in a speech in Springfield, Ill., Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln says the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
In 1897, the government signs a treaty of annexation with Hawaii. In 1903, Ford Motor Company is incorporated. In 1932, President Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis are renominated at the Republican national convention in Chicago. In 1933, the National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law. (It is later struck down by the Supreme Court.) In 1943, comedian Charles Chaplin marries his fourth wife, 18-year-old Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, in Carpenteria, Calif. In 1955, Pope Pius XXII excommunicates Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron -- a ban that is lifted eight years later. In 1961, Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West while his troupe is in Paris. In 1963, the world's first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, is launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok Six. In 1977, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev is named president, becoming the first person to hold both posts simultaneously. In 1978, President Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchange the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.
June 16, 1979: If Ohio is to work its way out of bleak times by promoting the kind of industrial growth that creates jobs, it must welcome new sources of power, including coal and nuclear energy, William B. Saxbe, former U.S. attorney general, tells the graduating class of Youngstown State University. Some 1,018 students receive degrees at the university's 57th annual commencement.
Sharon will soon have the minutes of all of its City Council minutes, from 1844 through 1949, recorded on microfilm, thanks to a federal grant administered by the Pennsylvania Historical & amp; Museum Commission.
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee will hold a public hearing at the Old Post Office Building in Youngstown to gauge the local effects of inflation.
June 16, 1964: The Youngstown Board of Education adopts a tentative budget of $14.1 million for the 1964-65 school year, an increase of $408,000 over the previous year.
In a ruling that will affect voting districts in virtually every state, the Supreme Court rules that seats in both houses of every state legislature must be apportioned by population. "Legislatures represent people, not trees or acreage," the court states.
By a 2-1 vote, Boardman Township trustees reject rezoning of 62 acres at Market Street and Boardman-Canfield Road for construction of a new air-conditioned shopping center. The Cafaro Co. has proposed building a $7 million plaza that would be known as the "Park South Mall."
June 16, 1954: Youngstown is named as one of six major Ohio cities where there is a "shakedown" pattern involving state liquor department agents and law-violating tavern and cheatspot operators.
Cities and other areas near Youngstown are "interested" in joining Youngstown in construction of a $9.6 million sewage disposal system, but want specific figures to indicate what the savings would be over construction of individual systems in each community.
One of the worst storms in Youngstown history causes 23 lightning fires and heavy flooding, including a loss estimated at $100,000 in the flooding of Averbeck Wholesale Drug Co. in the basement of 1347 W. Federal St.
June 16, 1929: Twenty thousand members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers from Ohio and Western Pennsylvania and their families attend the annual picnic at Idora Park. It is one of the most successful outings ever staged under the association's auspices.
Operations are in full swing at the construction site of the Meander Valley dam, with giant searchlights providing illumination so that work can continue at night.
A naval aviator, Lt. J.B. Sykes, narrowly escapes death with the crash of his Vought Corsair biplane at Landsdowne Field. He was flying from Washington to Dayton and back, with a stop in Youngstown to visit his sister. Witnesses say the plane came in for a landing at high speed and overshot the runway.