Today is Monday, June 5, the 156th day of 2006. There are 209 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, June 5, the 156th day of 2006. There are 209 days left in the year. On this date in 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is immediately arrested.
In 1884, Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refuses the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." In 1917, about 10 million American men begin registering for the draft in World War I. In 1933, the United States goes off the gold standard. In 1940, the Battle of France begins during World War II. In 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall gives a speech at Harvard University in which he outlines an aid program for Europe that comes to be known as "The Marshall Plan." In 1967, war erupts in the Mideast as Israel raids Egyptian military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq enter the conflict. In 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports that five homosexuals in Los Angeles have come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they are the first recognized cases of what later becomes known as AIDS. In 2004, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, dies in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
June 5, 1981: The city launches a probe into an $80,000 decrease in just one year in parking receipts at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Norman Smith, a 30-year veteran of the Salem Fire Department, is named chief, succeeding Martin Catlos, who will retire in August.
North Avenue Elementary School in Girard will close its doors for the last time June 11 due to declining enrollment, Supt. Ronald Schuster announces.
June 5, 1966: The Erie Lackawanna Railroad will ask the Interstate Commerce Commission to drop the Phoebe Snow, one of the grand old names in railroading, because it is losing $1.8 million a year. The luxury passenger train stops in Youngstown daily at 11:22 p.m. heading west and 4:34 a.m. heading east.
A Newman Center will be established by the Diocese of Youngstown at the site of the St. Joseph Parish at Wick and Rayen Avenues to provide pastoral services to the more than 6,000 Catholic students who attend Youngstown University.
U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan introduces a bill in the House to end blackouts of sporting events on UHF television stations that are more than 40 miles from the main post office of a city hosting football, baseball, basketball or hockey games.
June 5, 1956: Probate Judge Clifford M. Woodside is empowered by the County Office Holders Association of Mahoning County to appoint a committee of office holders and laymen to study the county's precarious financial condition.
Harry T. Marshall, Cleveland councilman who was narrowly defeated in the Republican primary for attorney general by William Saxbe of Mechanicsburg, has asked a recount in 24 Mahoning County precincts.
June 5, 1931: Wildly cheering speakers at a Communist rally in Central Square demand that Youngstown Mayor Joseph L. Heffernan and Police Chief Paul E. Lyden be driven from office. The crowd was estimated at one time at 4,000, although fewer than 10 percent were thought to be Communists or sympathizers.
A Citizens League of Youngstown, patterned after an organization with a similar name in Cleveland, is organized during a meeting in the office of William Herbert & amp; Sons Co. at 646 Market St. The goal will be to promote businesslike, honest and efficient conduct of local government.
Tien Lai Huang, who as a "Chinese leader, observer and philosopher" addressed a Chamber of Commerce meeting in Youngstown in March, has been jailed in Canton as a flim-flam artist. He described himself as the "Chinese Lindbergh" and ingratiated himself with men of influence, whom he would later approach for loans.