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June 16, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, June 16, the 167th day of 2010. There are 198 days left in the year.

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1858: Accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln says the slavery issue has to be resolved, declaring, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

1903: Ford Motor Co. is incorporated.

1959: Actor George Reeves, TV’s “Superman,” is found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in the bedroom of his Beverly Hills, Calif., home; he was 45.

1960: The Alfred Hitchcock movie “Psycho” opens in New York.

1963: The world’s first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, is launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6.

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1985: Suellen Cochran, Miss Southeastern Ohio, is crowned Miss Ohio 1986; Tamara Lynn Dieter, Miss Youngstown, is second runner-up, and Boardman’s Tammy Lynn Salem, Miss Toledo, is third runner up.

A Washington economics firm’s 20-year projection shows the Mahoning Valley lagging behind other areas of Ohio in job creation, population growth and per capita income.

1970: Fifty-six nursing students in the Technical and Community College of Youngstown State University receive associate degrees in applied science.

Kathy Erhardt of Poland is named queen of the 1970 Soap Box Derby, which will be held July 12 in Youngstown, sponsored by area Chevrolet dealers and the Jaycees.

1960: The Youngstown Metropolitan Area Development Citizens committee adopts the Hammer report as a general blueprint for downtown development.

A.S. Glossbrenner, president and CEO of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., says if the Youngstown district is to progress and create new jobs, a new climate toward industry must be established. High wage and transportation costs and aging facilities are working against the area, he says.

1935: Carl Isaacs, former Struthers High and North Carolina State football star, is selected for appointment to the United States Aerial School of the Navy at Pensacola. He was among a field of 31,000 applicants.

Resolutions favoring the 30-hour week and increased relief allotments and opposing war, Fascism and CCC camps are adopted by the Youth Congress during two days of meetings at Central Auditorium.