Years Ago

June 6, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, June 6, the 157th day of 2010. There are 208 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1918: U.S. Marines suffer heavy casualties as they launch their eventually successful counteroffensive against German troops in the World War I Battle of Belleau Wood in France.

1925: Walter Percy Chrysler founds the Chrysler Corp.

1934: The Securities and Exchange Commission is established.

1944: The D-Day invasion of Europe takes place during World War II as Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, France.

1985: Authorities in Brazil exhume a body later identified as the remains of Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious “Angel of Death” of the Nazi Holocaust.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: Youngstown City Council unanimously approves Gary Kubic as city finance director, 18 months after Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro tried to appoint him to the post.

Dozens of insurance adjusters have descended on the Mahoning and Shenango valleys and $5 million has already been paid out to people whose homes were damaged by the tornadoes.

1970: Shirley Soda, 32, of Forest Glen Avenue, is treated at North Side Hospital after being struck by lightning that may have passed through a telephone receiver.

A Trumbull County jury finds Willie Head, 30, of Youngstown guilty of second degree murder in the shooting death of John Sawaska of Hubbard during a melee between laborers and skilled craftsmen at the General Motors Lordstown complex.

1960: For the third time in recent months, Mahoning County commissioners attempt to sell the 314-acre county home farm land, possibly to a developer.

Albert L. Lloyd of Youngstown, former assistant controller of the G.M. McKelvey Co., is appointed controller of the American Society of Metals.

1935: Ohio Sens. Vic Donahey and Robert Bulkey prepare to got to President Roosevelt to seek a $10 million allotment from public works funds to begin the Beaver-Mahoning Canal as part of a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal.

Enough strip steel to construct about 1,500 average automobiles is produced on the new hot strip mill at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Campbell plant.