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June 7, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, June 7, the 158th day of 2010. There are 207 days left in the year.

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1769: Frontiersman Daniel Boone begins exploring present-day Kentucky.

1929: The sovereign state of Vatican City comes into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty are exchanged in Rome.

1948: The Communists complete their takeover of Czechoslovakia with the resignation of President Edvard Benes.

1981: Israeli military planes destroy a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charge could have been used to make nuclear weapons.

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1985: A young black bear that may have been wandering Trumbull County for two weeks is tranquilized and captured in a Packard Electric plant on Paige Avenue NE, where it took refuge after being chased by neighborhood children.

The area’s most important potential economic asset, the Great Lakes, is worthless for want of a canal, William Johnston, chairman of the Great Lakes Inland Waterway Authority, tells members of the Eastgate Development and Transportation Agency.

1970: The General Motors Fisher Body-Chevrolet plant at Lordstown and 10,000 employees there have a lot riding on the plant’s new entry into the small-car wars, the Chevrolet Vega.

Three veteran priests in the Youngstown Diocese retire: the Rt. Rev. Msgr. William Dunn, pastor of St. Mary Church, Warren; the Rt. Rev. Msgr. William Fitzgerald, pastor of St. Joan of Arc, Canton, and the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John Toole, pastor of St. Patrick, Hubbard.

1960: The Youngstown Board of Education approves a new salary schedule for city school teachers that will increase the starting salary for a teacher with a bachelor’s degree from $4,100 to $4,400 and will cost the district $620,000 a year.

Michael J. Lyden, 82, of Youngstown, a former street car motorman and one of the oldest active labor leaders in the nation, retires as president of the Ohio AFL-CIO, avoiding an election battle.

1935: The future of the Mahoning-Beaver rivers waterway is stalled in Washington, D.C., as Pittsburgh railroad interests argue against it and others argue for a full Lake Erie-Ohio River canal.

The Second Greater Youngstown flower Show opens at Stambaugh Auditorium, featuring a formal garden in the center of the ballroom, and various bogs created by local garden clubs in its corners.