Today is Friday, June 9, the 160th day of 2006. There are 205 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, June 9, the 160th day of 2006. There are 205 days left in the year. On this date 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 1954, during the Senate-Army Hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch asks Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy: "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" 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 1985, American educator Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon; he is released in November 1991 along with fellow hostage Terry Waite.
June 9, 1981: Commuter Aircraft Corp. expects to reach full production of four airplanes a month in 1984 at the company's $454 million plant that will be built at Youngstown Municipal Airport, CAC President Kornell Feher tells aviation writers at the Paris Air Show.
Niles Police Chief John Ross will fight an attempt by Mayor Joseph Cicero to force his retirement because he is past the age of 70.
Plans for construction of a $16 million shopping mall at Routes 224 and 60 in Union Township, Pa., are announced by Crown American of Johnstown.
June 9, 1966: Youngstown's Urban Renewal Agency is reorganized, creating 25 new positions to handle the expanding program.
Vandals break into the Frank Ohl Junior High School on Idaho Road in Austintown, ransacking 14 rooms and flooding halls with water and liquid bleach.
Youngstown Fourth Ward Councilman Corry Dama suggests to city council that seeking bidders for a cable television franchise in the city could provide $40,000 that the city could use to raise wages for city employees. Council had rejected CATV proposals in 1965.
June 9, 1956: Struthers Police Chief C. Woodrow Sicafuse gives city businesses the weekend to remove all pinball machines for their premises and says that after that, any machines found in Struthers will be confiscated and the proprietors arrested. The crackdown comes after the Ohio Supreme Court rules that pinball machines are gambling devices.
Two teenage boys drown in a pool southeast of Niles, despite the heroic efforts to save them by three other youths. Dead are Leroy Manson, 15, and James Wallace, 13.
The Senior Citizens 60 Plus Club at Martin Luther Lutheran Church in Youngstown has a party for 49 couples that celebrate their wedding anniversaries of 50 years or more.
June 9, 1931: Traffic claims its 15th victim of the year when Manual Goncalves, age 7, is struck by a car in Marshall Street near Smith Street. The driver of the car is being held pending investigation.
Carl Hoffman, 29, is shot and probably fatally wounded by Youngstown Patrolman Gene Doyle after being caught prowling in Abe Goldberg's produce store at 218 Boardman St.
Dr. H.C. McKown of the department of education at the University of Pitttsburgh, tells the largest graduating class in South High School's history that "the business of running schools should be left to school-trained experts." Speaking at the Keith Palace Theater, Dr. McKown offers a staunch defense of modern education.