Years Ago

Today is Friday, June 17, the 168th day of 2011. There are 197 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1775: The Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill takes place near Boston. The battle (actually on Breed’s Hill) proves a costly victory for the British, who suffer heavy losses.

1885: The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor aboard the French ship Isere.

1930: President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which boosts U.S. tariffs to historically high levels, prompting foreign retaliation.

1940: France asks Germany for terms of surrender in World War II.

1957: Mob underboss Frank Scalice is shot to death at a produce market in the Bronx, N.Y.

1961: Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West while his troupe is in Paris.

1971: The United States and Japan sign a treaty under which Okinawa would revert from American to Japanese control the following year, with the U.S. allowed to maintain military bases there.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: The Salem Board of Education offers a two-year buyout plan to 22 teachers. If all were to take the deal, the district would save $1.3 million over five years.

Backers of a proposed 24-bed treatment center for troubled youths on Youngstown’s West Side are having second thoughts about the project following opposition from the city and residents.

Ohio Department of Liquor Control agents cite former Salem Mayor Frank D. Dauria and two members of the Knights of Columbus Council 1818 with liquor violations at the K of C Hall on Vine Avenue.

1971: Forty-seven women will graduate as nurses from Youngstown State University.

Youngstown police investigating a burglary at the Golden Gate Market at 748 Park Ave. are showered with rocks and bottles before other officers arrive and three men are arrested.

Three area men receive dental surgery doctorates from the Ohio State University: Dr. Richard F. Marinelli, Dr. Robert F. Rafoth and Dr. Robert S. Kunovich.

1961: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. executives scoff at reports that the production of leaded steels at the Campbell Works may have been responsible for the latest reports of “black rain” that damaged paint on homes in Struthers.

Paul M. Hammaker, 58, formerly of Youngstown, resigns his $90,000-per- year job as president of Montgomery Ward & Co.

Guion Osborne, Youngs-town district commercial manager of Ohio Bell Telephone Co., will lead a citizens committee being formed to promote a half-mill library levy in November.

1936: About 25,000 Mahoning Valley children turn out at Idora Park by noon for Vindicator Kiddies Day. As many as 10,000 more are expected before the day is out.

Michael J. Kirwan, who won the Democratic nomination for the 19th District Congressional seat by a large vote on a National Union for Social Justice platform, declines comment on reports that Father Charles E. Couglin would announce he is running for president on a third-party ticket.