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On this date in:

1775: Gen. George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.

1863: The three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ends in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreat.

1971: Singer Jim Morrison of The Doors dies in Paris at age 27.

1979: Dan White, convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, is sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison.

1985: The time-travel comedy “Back to the Future,” starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, is first released.

1988: The USS Vincennes shoots down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.

2009: In a surprise announcement, Sarah Palin says she will resign as Alaska governor, effective July 26, 2009.

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1985: A $2 million, 6-screen theater will be built at McKay’s Corners in Boardman by Cinema South Inc.

Salem City council approves construction of a $14 million improvement project to the waste water collection system.

The Youngstown Board of Education approves a one-year contract with Special Busing Inc. for the transportation of handicapped students.

1970: Delegates to the biennial convention of the Lutheran Church in America adopts a policy statement saying that divorce may be preferable to unhappy marriage.

Ohio Atty. Gen. Paul W. Brown files suit against six Cleveland State University students seeking $2,800 for damage to the campus during student unrest.

A 19-year-old West Side girl tells police she won’t press charges against four teenage girls who threatened her with a knife and stripped her in Tod Homestead Cemetery in a dispute over a boy friend of one of the girls.

1960: The Bell Telephone System spends $2.7 million n Mahoning County on materials, equipment and services in 1959.

The Rev. Marries Moore, great-great grandson of Sacajewea, the Indian woman who led the Lewis and Clark expedition, will sing and preach at Girard First Assembly of God Church and at Girard High School auditorium.

1935: The Beaver-Mahoning Canal faces a stiff fight as the omnibus harbors and rivers bill passed by the Senate goes to a conference committee.

The Boy Scout camp at the Stambaugh Reservation will open the season July 7 after a number of improvements have been made.

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