Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, June 14, the 165th day of 2011. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1775: The Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, is created.

1777: The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopts the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.

1801: Former American Revolutionary War General and notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold dies in London.

1811: Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” is born in Litchfield, Conn.

1911: The British ocean liner RMS Olympic sets out on its maiden voyage for New York, arriving one week later. (The ship’s captain is Edward John Smith, who goes on to command the ill-fated RMS Titanic the following year.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: A Public Utilities Commission examiner recommends that the full commission deny a request for toll-free telephone services between the Niles and Youngstown exchanges.

The Youngstown Fire Department rushes four trucks to the B.J. Alan Co., a manufacturer of fireworks, when fire breaks out on an assembly line.

1971: Youngstown police slightly wound a 17-year-old youth who fled from patrolmen who attempted to question him regarding a burglary at the Auto Plaza store, 706 Market St. After being treated for a gunshot wound of the buttock, he was taken to the Mahoning County Jail.

Patricia Mitchell, 14, is crowned “Miss Black Teenager of Youngs-town” after a pageant at the Buckeye Elks Lodge.

Workers begin pouring concrete for the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority’s $2 million apartment building for the elderly at Wood and Champion streets.

1961: Warren police question Anthony “Tony the Dope” Delsanter about the mob assassination of Mike Farah while Delsanter nonchalantly munches on a sandwich in a Mahoning Avenue Ext. restaurant.

Two Youngstown patrolmen are assigned by Sgt. John Olegar, head of the juvenile division, to keep a close check on illegal sales, purchases and use of fireworks.

Marion Candelore, 17, of Niles is an uninjured passenger on one of two commuter trains that collided near Stuttgart, Germany, in which 35 people were killed and 43 injured. She is in Germany while her father, Sgt. Major William Candelore, is stationed there.

1936: The “Landon for President Club” at West Middlesex, Pa., birthplace of the Republican presidential candidate, invites the Kansas governor to visit the town during his campaign.

Carrie Belle Parsons, a native of Cortland in Trumbull County, takes a year leave of absence from her job as an agent of the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, to spend a year in the Belgian Congo, where she intends to do some big game hunting.

Paul H. Bolton, secretary of the Better Business Bureau, warns Youngstown area veterans who will be receiving World War bonuses to beware of “slickers” already planning to cheat them.