Years Ago

June 8, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, June 8, the 159th day of 2010. There are 206 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

A.D. 632: The prophet Muhammad dies in Medina.

1864: Abraham Lincoln is nominated for another term as president during the National Union (Republican) Party’s convention in Baltimore.

1915: Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns in a disagreement with President Woodrow Wilson over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania.

1948: The “Texaco Star Theater” makes its debut on NBC-TV with Milton Berle guest-hosting the first program. (Berle is later named the show’s permanent host.)

1966: A merger is announced between the National and American Football Leagues, to take effect in 1970.

1967: During the Six-Day War, 34 U.S. servicemen are killed when Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats attack the USS Liberty, a Navy intelligence-gathering ship stationed in the Mediterranean. (Israel later says the Liberty had been mistaken for an Egyptian vessel.)

1995: U.S. Marines rescue Capt. Scott O’Grady, whose F-16C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: A $17 million convocation center proposed for construction across from St. Columba Cathedra would lose $750,000 a year in its early years and $1 million if used more frequently, a report to the Youngstown State University board of trustees says.

At least four area bakeries, Schwebel, Keystone, Continental and Nickles, are struck by Teamsters drivers.

1970: Eight people die on Youngstown area highways over a weekend.

An 18-year-old youth who stole two American flags from Central Square and said he hated America is out of jail after serving two days of a 10-day jail sentence and filling 51 pages with the handwritten Pledge of Allegiance. Judge Leo Morley reminds him that he is on probation for six months.

Woolco is building a full-line department store in the 3100 block of Belmont Avenue.

Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Tom Moody issues an injunction against eight alleged leaders of disruptions at Ohio State University forbidding them from making speeches or distributing leaflets. The injunction was sought by nine other students at OSU who said the eight were inciting violence. .

1960: The American Demolition Co. of Pittsburgh is given a contract to raze all structures in the W. Federal slum clearance area on a low bid of $48,400.

Carol Ann Sosnowchik, The Vindicator’s 13-year-old contestant in the National Spelling Bee, falls on the word myrmidons, becoming the 22nd of 73 spellers to fall in the national bee.

1935: Mayor Mark Moore announces plan to install two-way radio communication in 11 new police cruisers.

Youngstown gains 3.7 percent for May, while Ohio showed a drop of a half percent, says Ohio State University’s bureau of business research.