Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, June 8, the 159th day of 2011. There are 206 days left in the year.

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A.D. 632: The prophet Muhammad dies in Medina.

1864: Abraham Lincoln is nominated for another term as president during the National Union (Republican) Party’s convention in Baltimore.

1915: Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns in a disagreement with President Woodrow Wilson over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania.

1953: The Supreme Court rules that restaurants in the District of Columbia cannot refuse to serve blacks.

1967: Thirty-four U.S. servicemen are killed when Israel attacks the USS Liberty, a Navy intelligence-gathering ship in the Mediterranean. (Israel later says the Liberty had been mistaken for an Egyptian vessel.)

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1986: Dr. William Binning, chairman of the Mahoning County Republican Party, says sniping among leading Republicans is detracting from the GOP effort to oust Democratic Gov. Richard F. Celeste and give former Gov. James A. Rhodes a fifth term.

The Rev. Michael J. Cariglio, vice official of the tribunal of the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, is named pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.

1971: The Youngstown Board of Education creates a new $16,948 a year post of administrative assistant to the superintendent and names James Jarvis, principal at Princeton Junior High School, to the post.

The bodies of two West Branch High School students are found in a parked car on Western Reserve Road, apparent victims of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.

1961: City Council does not share Mayor Frank R. Franko’s enthusiasm for a $1 boarding tax on airplane passengers leaving Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Jack Thompson Sr., 55, golf professional at Tippecanoe Country Club since 1928, dies in South Side Hospital.

1936: The 1936 Youngstown College yearbook, The Neon, is being distributed by George H. Schoenhard, editor-in-chief, and William H. Best, business manager.

Rev. Eugene C. Beach of Ottumwa, Iowa, is given an unanimous call by the congregation of the First Christian Church to succeed Rev. L.G. Batman, who will retire as pastor after 27 years service in the church.