Today is Sunday, June 11, the 162nd day of 2006. There are 203 days left in the year. On this date in 1776, the Continental Congress forms a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence calling

Today is Sunday, June 11, the 162nd day of 2006. There are 203 days left in the year. On this date in 1776, the Continental Congress forms a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence calling for freedom from Britain.
In 1509, England's King Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon. In 1770, Capt. James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovers the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it. In 1919, Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing's first Triple Crown winner. In 1942, the United States and the Soviet Union sign a lend-lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II. In 1947, the government announces the end of household and institutional sugar rationing, to take effect the next day. In 1963, Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolates himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. In 1970, the United States' presence in Libya comes to an end as the last detachment leaves Wheelus Air Base. In 1977, Seattle Slew wins the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown. In 1985, Karen Ann Quinlan, the comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision, dies in Morris Plains, N.J., at age 31. In 2004, the nation bids a lingering goodbye to former President Ronald Reagan at a stately funeral service in Washington, followed hours later by a hilltop burial ceremony in his beloved California.
June 11, 1981: Tempers flare during a meeting of the Girard Board of Education as parents take exception to plans by the board to close the North Avenue School.
Sixty-three Warren city employees file suit seeking to block enforcement of the city's residency law.
A feasibility study will be made to determine if the Shenango Dam near Sharpsville would be a good site for a hydroelectric power plant.
Youngstown Mayor George Vukovich dismisses John Benninger as finance director and names Dominic Conti to the post.
The Baseball Town Oldtimers of Youngstown will play the Jamestown, N.Y., Oldtimers in an exhibition game at Cooperstown, N.Y., home of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The discovery that a voter in the December 1979 Beaver Township Precinct 2 special liquor election was also registered in Pennsylvania leads to a state investigation to determine if there was a pattern of dual registration by voters in that election.
June 11, 1966: A New Castle, Pa., family's camper-pick-up truck collides with a Greyhound bus carrying servicemen on a weekend pass near Port Royal, Va. Killed are Paul Crum, 34, and his daughter, Patty, 11, and Mrs. Mary Kalmanir, 62, Crum's mother-in-law from Jerome, Pa.
The Mahoning County College Board of Trustees hires LeRoy de Marrais, a graduate of Yale University and a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan, as academic dean of the proposed college.
Cleveland Indians pitcher Sonny Siebert hurls the first no-hitter of the season, a 2-0 victory over the Washington Senators in Cleveland.
June 11, 1956: Competing in the National Pee Wee Golf Championships in Orlando, Fla., are Sandra Lee Doughton of Hubbard in the girls 10-12 tournament and Len Theis of Warren in the 10-12 boys tournament.
Joan Bradfield Fowler of Youngstown receives a bachelor of arts degree from Lake Erie College at Painesville, becoming the fourth generation in her family to graduate from the college. Her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother all received degrees from Lake Erie.
Safecrackers escape with more than $4,000 in cash and checks from break-ins at the Sky-Hi Drive-in Theater near Coitsville and the Marshall Drug Co. store at 34 W. Federal St. downtown.
Bill Spencer, a senior at Chaney High School, is the Federalist candidate for governor at the 19th annual Boys State at Camp Perry.
The Hilton Hotel Corp. announces that it will build a 17-story hotel costing $15 million in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle.
June 11, 1931: The Ohio House of Representatives approves a new schedule of license fees, increasing those for larger cars. The fees will range from $7 for cars of 25 horsepower or less to $35 for cars with more than 36 horsepower, an increase of $5 at the top end.
Father Leonard T. Gerity, assistant pastor of St. Edward's Church, Youngstown, takes his first flying lesson in a Waco biplane from Pilot C.S. Hanson at Bernard Air Lines in Youngstown.
The 50 prisoners held in Youngstown jail since 70 were arrested during a Communist rally May 31 are released into the custody of Mrs. Yetta Land, a Cleveland attorney, who promised that the prisoners would return for hearings or trials.
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