Years Ago

June 11, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Friday, June 11, the 162nd day of 2010. There are 203 days left in the year.

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1776: The Continental Congress forms a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence calling for freedom from Britain.

1910: French ocean explorer and environmentalist Jacques-Yves Cousteau is born in Saint-Andre-de-Cubzac, France.

1919: Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner.

1947: The government announces the end of household and institutional sugar rationing.

1963: A Buddhist monk (Thich Quang Duc) sets himself afire on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.

1977: Seattle Slew wins the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.

1985: Karen Ann Quinlan, the comatose patient whose case prompted a historic right-to-die court decision, dies in Morris Plains, N.J., at age 31.

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1985: Mahoning County deputies seize suspected cocaine worth $10,000 as well as marijuana, guns and illegal fireworks at a North Jackson man’s home.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. says he is not satisfied with a report that says the U.S Weather Service “provided reasonable forecasts and warning” and did a “very good” job leading up to tornadoes that struck the Mahoning and Shenango valleys.

President Reagan rejects a suggestion by Democrats that his tax proposal calling for three tax rates of 15, 25 and 35 percent be changed to contain a fourth rate of 40 percent.

1970: Boston Atty. F. Lee Bailey asks Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to grant a new trial for Willie Head Jr. after the Youngstown laborer is sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing of John Sawaska during a battle between laborers and craftsmen at the General Motors plant in Lordstown.

The State Highway Department warns that the stretch of I-80 between Routes 46 and 534 is still under construction and motorists who have been moving barriers to use the road for travel or racing are subject to arrest.

Mahoning County commissioners commit themselves to provide $110,000 to keep 900 children under the protective custody of the Mahoning County Children Services Board for the last quarter of 1970.

1960: Safecrackers surprise an Idora Park night watchman, bind and gag him and escape with $20,000 from five safes.

A $40,000 memorial chapel is dedicated in honor of Myron Agrenovitz in Temple Emanu-El’s cemetery in Coitsville.

Guion Osborn, district commercial manager of Ohio Bell Telephone Co., is elected president of Junior Achievement of the Youngstown Area.

St. Elizabeth Hospital and the North and South Side units of the Youngstown Hospital Association say they will not be affected by a new national system barring the use of foreign- educated, unlicensed doctors as interns.

1935: Judge David G. Jenkins sets July 1 for a new trial of George Davis, 24, in the slaying of T.E. McLean after one woman juror held out for a mercy recommendation and blocked conviction of Davis on a murder charge. The jury had deliberated unsuccessfully for four days, a county record.

“The crime wave of which so many of our well-disposed people are complaining, is a consequence of the exclusion of God from our education system,” says Dr. William L. Newton of Cleveland says during the Ursuline School commencement at the school auditorium.