Years Ago

June 18, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Friday, June 18, the 169th day of 2010. There are 196 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1778: American forces enter Philadelphia as the British withdraw during the Revolutionary War.

1812: The United States declares war against Britain.

1815: Napoleon Bona-parte meets his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeat the French in Belgium.

1873: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony is found guilty by a judge in Canandaigua, N.Y., of breaking the law by casting a vote in the 1872 presidential election. (The judge fines Anthony $100, but she never pays the penalty.)

1908: William Howard Taft is nominated for president by the Republican national convention in Chicago.

1940: During World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urges his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that would prompt future generations to say, “This was their finest hour.”

1945: William Joyce, known as “Lord Haw-Haw,” is charged in London with high treason for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio. (He is hanged the following January.)

1983: Astronaut Sally K. Ride becomes America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues blast off aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: The Mahoning County Department of Human Services and county commissioners say the budget passed by the Republican-controlled Ohio Senate would slash funds for Mahoning County by $1.1 million.

Dr. Werner Lange, a Kent State University professor, outlines a promotional campaign advocating construction of a Lake Erie-to-Ohio River canal that will be similar to the campaign used to try to persuade General Motors Corp. to build its Saturn plant in the Mahoning Valley.

1970: Atty. Nathaniel Jones tells 1,321 graduates at Youngstown State University that “in bringing about change, let us remember that both history and common sense teach there is an alternative to ugliness and violence and repression.”

The Youngstown Transit Co. notifies the city that it needs an immediate subsidy of $7,000 to $10,000 to continue service.

The Youngstown Board of Education will look into alternate sites for the proposed Choffin Vocational Center, which will be built by 1974 to house 2,400 pupils.

1960: Burglars break into the State Liquor Store on Mahoning Avenue in Austintown and drive off with a large safe containing $2,000 in store receipts.

Thomas Barrowman, 68, a downtown wholesale jeweler who was prominent in veterans circles and Republican politics, dies in South Side Hospital.

1935: Youngstown City Council approves the purchase of 11 police cars at a cost of $8,000.

Mark Perkins leads a contingent of 17 Youngstown Philco dealers to Cleveland for a 5-day cruise on the Great Lakes with 600 Philco dealers from New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Kentucky.