Today is Friday, June 5, the 156th day of 2009. There are 209 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, June 5, the 156th day of 2009. 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 1916, the Arab Revolt against Turkish Ottoman rule begins during World War I. In 1940, during the World War II Battle of France, Germany attacks French forces along the Somme line. 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 military aircraft parked on the ground in Egypt; Syria, Jordan and Iraq enter the conflict. In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 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 .

June 5, 1984: Ohio’s congressional delegation is awaiting word on what will happen next in a dispute over redistricting the state’s 21 congressional districts.

Hugh A. Frost resigns as assistant to president of Youngstown State University and as the university’s affirmative action director, to go into business as an employment consultant.

June 5, 1969: Chief Petty Officer Edward P. Hess, 34, of Youngstown is classified missing and presumed dead in the naval disaster in which an Australian ship rammed the USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea, cutting the destroyer in half. He is among 73 seamen missing, including three brothers from Niobrara, Neb.

The Ohio Senate passes a bill requiring the statewide fluoridation of water supplies.

June 5, 1959: K. Calvin Sommer, treasurer of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., is elected to a third term as president of Junior Achievement of the Youngstown Area Inc. during a meeting at the Youngstown Club.

General Fireproofing Co. President E.A. Purnell appeals to GF employees to step up employee production to reduce costs.

June 5, 1934: Methodist Church leaders meeting in Youngstown call on President Roosevelt to exercise every option in helping to avert a steel strike.

Dr. William P. Tolley, president of Allegheny College, Dr. Kenneth I. Brown, president of Hiram College, and Hugh K. Martin, federal district attorney, have been secured as commencement speakers for Youngstown high schools.