Years Ago

June 13, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, June 13, the 164th day of 2010. There are 201 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1927: Aviation hero Charles Lindbergh is honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

1935: James Braddock claims the title of world heavyweight boxing champion from Max Baer in a 15-round fight in Long Island City, N.Y.

1944: Germany begins launching flying-bomb attacks against Britain during World War II.

1957: The Mayflower II, a replica of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620, arrives at Plymouth, Mass., after a nearly two-month journey from England.

1967: President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1983: The U.S. space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, becomes the first spacecraft to leave the solar system as it crosses the orbit of Neptune.

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1985: Democratic Party Chairman Don L. Hanni Jr. is charged with three traffic violations after his car smashes through the front window of the Youngstown Post Office in the early evening.

The joint federal-state Disaster Assistance Center at McKinley High School closes after serving more than 800 victims of the May 31 tornado.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-17th, sends a letter to Roger B. Smith, GM chairman, asking for a meeting to discuss how the Mahoning Valley might fit into the corporation’s future plans. A spokesman says the letter does not mean that Traficant has given up on the area winning the proposed Saturn plant.

1970: Marine Sgt. Francis A. Crawford Jr., 26, a former South High football star, is wounded while serving his second tour of duty in Vietnam.

Five teenagers from Ravenna and Akron, ranging in age from 14 to 19, are killed in a one-car crash in Route 18. They had left a party for one of the passengers, Danny L. Young, 17, a Marine who was leaving for Vietnam.

1960: Youngstown Water Department crews are struggling to maintain pressure for the hospitals, industrial plants and the downtown area after a 16-inch main ruptures near the Dunlap Avenue reservoir.

Colonel A. Dolby of Warren is elected lieutenant governor of Buckeye Boys State at Athens.

1935: Joseph T. Miller, 20, of Youngstown, who was released from the Mansfield Reformatory due to illness and put on a bus to Youngstown, manages to make his way to the door of a distant relative and dies that night. Relatives say they had no idea he had been released and was on his way home.

Nick Brown, who runs one of the biggest bug banks in Youngstown, says there are about a dozen numbers operations in the city, which is hurting the business. Brown tells a reporter there are “a lot of good church people” who play the number daily.