Today is Thursday, June 4, the 155th day of 2009. There are 210 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, June 4, the 155th day of 2009. There are 210 days left in the year. On this date in 1942, the Pacific Battle of Midway begins during World War II; three days later, American naval forces claim a decisive victory over the Japanese.

In 1783, the Montgolfier brothers first publicly demonstrate their hot-air balloon, which does not carry any passengers, over Annonay, France. In 1892, the Sierra Club is incorporated in San Francisco. In 1896, Henry Ford makes a successful pre-dawn test run of his horseless carriage, called a “quadricycle,” through the streets of Detroit. In 1919, Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing citizens the right to vote regardless of their gender, and sends it to the states for ratification. In 1939, the German ocean liner St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, is turned away from the Florida coast by U.S. officials. In 1940, the Allied military evacuation from Dunkirk, France, ends.

June 4 1984: Law enforcement officials say that people who want to buy fireworks in Ohio will buy fireworks for the Fourth of July despite new Ohio legislation that is supposed to tighten sales.

An Indian bingo parlor proposed in northeastern Ohio would compete unfairly with Ohio charity bingo games, says Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, but proponents say bingo would help the Miami tribe.

June 4, 1969: The Youngstown Board of Education votes to borrow $1.8 million to meet current expenses through June 23.

Spec. 4 Patrick M. Hagerty, 19, of Youngstown is killed in action in combat operations in South Vietnam.

Vindicator Spelling Bee Champion Joyce Altrudi is eliminated in the second round of the national bee in Washington when she puts a second “s” on madras.

June 4, 1959: Boardman Town-ship trustees turn down a zone change that would have permitted construction of a $300,000 supermarket and drug store at Midlothian Boulevard and Glenwood Avenue.

The Youngstown Transit Co. unveils its 10 new diesel buses, which will be put into service immediately, eliminating trolley bus operations.

Four hundred Rayen alumni attend the annual Rayen School reunion, where they get to see the 64-foot mural tracing the school’s history that has been painted on the auditorium wall.

June 4, 1934: President Franklin Roosevelt says an adverse report on the proposed Beaver-Mahoning canal is not the final word on the project.

Mrs. Maria Miller, 98-year-old Wickliffe resident, recalls the damaging frost of June 5, 1859, but believes that Ohio’s fickle weather during the past three years has caused more damage to crops than any like period in her time.

Youngstown’s 290 bus and street car operators receive an 18 percent pay raise that will give them a shorter work week and bring their top pay to 61 cents an hour.