Years Ago

June 5, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, June 5, the 156th day of 2010. There are 209 days left in the year.

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1884: Civil War hero General William T. Sherman refuses the Republican presidential nomination, saying, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”

1910: Author William Sydney Porter, who’d written short stories as “O. Henry,” dies in New York at 47.

1916: The Arab Revolt against Turkish Ottoman rule begins during World War I.

1967: War erupts in the Mideast as Israel raids military aircraft parked on the ground in Egypt; Syria, Jordan and Iraq enter the conflict.

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 arrested.

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1985: Vice President George Bush, accompanied by Pennsylvania Gov. Richard Thornburgh, tours tornado damage in Wheatland, Pa.

More than 120 Girard children who signed up to play soccer in Girard will play instead in Niles because new grass has been planted at the high school stadium where they were to play.

1970: The Mahoning County Joint Vocational School Board refuses a request by the Struthers school system to join the vocational school district.

The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority awards a $2 million contract to the Housing Development Co. Of Cleveland to build a 134-unit high rise building for the elderly at Wood and Champion Streets.

1960: One of the two guns used in the shooting of Joseph Romano outside his North Side apartment had been stolen from a suburban Erie, Pa., store in May.

The Ohio Department of Agriculture says Mahoning County is one of the areas of Ohio most infected by leptospirosis, a bacteria that is a health threat to dogs, swine, cattle, some wild animals and even humans.

Christina Wash, a 12-year-old sixth grader at Center Street School in Struthers, receives a set of wooden Russian nesting dolls from Nikita Khrushchev after writing to him asking the Soviet premier for an addition to her collection of 25 dolls from around the world.

1935: Youngstown City Council‘s finance committee recommends passage of a $120,000 bond issue and the transfer of $10,000 from the city’s contingency fund, part of an effort to assure that parks and swimming pools are open in the city during the summer.

Forty-five presses have been installed at the Youngstown Metal Products Co. plant, a subsidiary of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.

Harry M. Warner, president of Warner Brothers, is en route to Hollywood with his wife and two daughters, Betty May, 15, and Lita, 9, to escape what a New York police official described as a kidnap threat.