Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, June 7, the 158th day of 2011. There are 207 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1769: Frontiersman Daniel Boone begins to explore present-day Kentucky.

1929: The sovereign state of Vatican City comes into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty are exchanged in Rome.

1948: The Communists complete their takeover of Czechoslovakia with the resignation of President Edvard Benes.

1981: Israeli military planes destroy a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charge could have been used to make nuclear weapons.

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1986: Warren native and astronaut Ron Parise returns home to speak at the commencement of his alma mater, Warren Western Reserve High School.

The Vindicator marks 75 years of publication of its Sunday edition, which debuted June 7, 1896.

1971: Three young boys drown in the swift, murky waters of the Mahoning River near the Cedar Street Bridge. The boys are identified as Pablo Torres, 12; his brother, Antonio, 10, and a friend, Jimmy Daniels, 7.

A wind-lashed storm packing thunder, lightning, hail and torrential rain blows through southern Mahoning and Columbiana counties, interrupting electrical and communications systems but causing comparatively little damage.

Ernest S. Wilson, 54, member of a prominent Youngstown family and former president of the Youngstown Downtown Board of Trade, dies of a heart attack in San Diego, where he had moved a year earlier.

1961: A midmorning holdup at the Wickliffe Branch of the Union National Bank is solved within a half hour, as about $12,000 and a gun are recovered and a 50-year-old Liberty Township man is taken into custody.

Youngstown University is cutting back its 15-year development program after federal officials indicate a more restricted project will have an easier time qualifying for federal aid.

A Youngstown man’s joking remark about a bomb delayed a DC6 Chicago-New York United Air Lines flight 65 minutes at Youngstown Municipal Airport and may cost the man a prison sentence.

1936: More than 10,000 Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. wage earners elect 47 employee representatives at Campbell and 16 at Brier Hill.

Seven people, including a 19-year-old girl, are arrested for reckless driving as police crack down on dangerous motorists.

An argument over a nickle craps game lands three men in St. Elizabeth Hospital with knife wounds, a fourth in city jail and a fifth on the police “wanted” list.