Years Ago

June 10, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, June 10, the 161st day of 2010. There are 204 days left in the year.

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1865: The Richard Wagner opera “Tristan und Isolde” premieres in Munich, Germany.

1935: Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.

1940: Italy declares war on France and Britain; Canada declares war on Italy. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking at the University of Virginia, says the U.S. stance toward the conflict is shifting from one of “neutrality” to “non-belligerency.”

Jamaican-born Pan-African nationalist Marcus Garvey dies in London at 52.

1964: The Senate votes to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern senators.

1967: The Middle East War ends as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.

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1985: Niles McKinley High School graduates receive their diplomas in outside ceremonies at the football field because the school has been converted into a disaster center for tornado victims.

The Los Angeles Lakers win the NBA title, beating the Boston Celtics 111-100 in the sixth game.

Edward J. Gilronan, who was embroiled in bitter budget and political battles during 12 years as a Mahoning County commissioner, dies in his Windsor Avenue home at the age of 84.

1970: Four of the eight youngsters originally accused of vandalism at Hillman Jr. High School during a brief teachers’ strike May 14, are placed on probation and their parents are ordered to make restitution for the damages.

Austintown Fitch High School awards diplomas to 515 seniors, the first time the school’s graduates exceed 500.

1960: Koppers Co. Inc. gives a contract for self-propelled steel ladle slag-pot transfer cars to the William B. Pollock Co.

The unofficial 1960 population count for the state of Ohio is 9.6 million people, an increase of almost 1.7 million or 21 percent over 1950 figures.

1935: Dr. I.E. Philo tells Rayen School graduates at the baccalaureate service at Rodef Sholem temple that war is the wrong road for nations to follow: “We cannot make nations love good will, justice and truth by killing their sons and destroying their cities.”

Attendance at the second day of the second annual Youngstown flower show at Stambaugh Auditorium swells to 5,000.