Today is Tuesday, June 16, the 167th day of 2009. There are 198 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, June 16, the 167th day of 2009. There are 198 days left in the year. On this date in 1858, as he accepts the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln says the slavery issue has to be resolved, declaring, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

In 1567, Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland. (She escapes almost a year later, but ends up imprisoned again.) In 1903, Ford Motor Co. is incorporated. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis are re-nominated at the Republican national convention in Chicago. In 1933, the National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law. (It is later struck down by the Supreme Court.) In 1958, the Supreme Court, in Kent v. Dulles, rules that artist Rockwell Kent cannot be denied a passport because of his communist affiliations. In 1959, actor George Reeves, TV’s “Superman,” is found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in the bedroom of his Beverly Hills, Calif., home; he was 45. In 1963, the world’s first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, is launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok Six. In 1976, riots break out in the black South African township of Soweto. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos exchange the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.

June 16, 1984: Anchor Motor Freight Co. revives plans to construct a new terminal in Lordstown, primarily to transport cars from the General Motors plant.

After waiting two years for a liver transplant, Helen Tomko, 23, undergoes surgery in Presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh becoming the first known liver transplant patient from Youngstown.

Dr. A. James Giannini, a Youngstown psychiatrist, is elected chairman of the Mahoning County Mental Health Board.

June 16, 1969: A 25-year-old Columbus man accused of selling drugs in the Youngstown State University area is sentenced to two one-year terms in Mahoning County jail and fined $2,000 and costs for possessing hallucinatory drugs.

Safecrackers break into the McDonald’s Drive-In Restaurant at 840 E. Midlothian, force open a safe and escape with an undetermined amount of cash.

Playing at the Kenley Players in Warren, Bob Crane of TV’s “Hogan’s Heroes” and Abby Dalton in “Cactus flower.”

June 16, 1959: Board of Education members authorize Dr. J. Fred Essig to cooperate in the National Defense Act program, making about $32,000 available for scientific, mathematics and other materials for Youngstown pupils.

The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to consider an appeal by Vince DeNiro, top Youngstown and Mahoning County rackets figure, of his conviction for contempt of court for defying the padlocking of his Coitsville gambling den. He will be given a few days to get his affairs in order before he begins serving a two-year-old jail term.

First Ward Councilman Michael J. McCullion raises questions about the $10 million bond required to finance the Youngstown sewage treatment plant that threaten to delay progress on the project.

June 16, 1934: Homer Sanders, 43, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and indecently destroying a body for purpose of avoiding a coroner’s jury in the death and disappearance of Leah Dilley, 4, in Farrell. The girl died after wandering into a house Sanders was fumigating with cyanide. After he found the body, he burned it to cover up his negligence. Hundreds of people had searched for the girl for 11 days.

Playing at the Paramount, super fiends Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in “Black Cat”; at the Palace, Shirley Temple in “Little Miss Marker” with Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell and Charles Bickford.

The Youngstown Board of Control will purchase $4,200 worth of fire hydrants from the Florence Pipe & Foundry Co. at a price of $51.44 each.