Years Ago

Today is Monday, June 4, the 156th day of 2012. There are 210 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1812: The U.S. House of Representatives approves a declaration of war against Britain.

1912: Massachusetts becomes the first state to adopt a minimum wage law.

1919: Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing citizens the right to vote regardless of their gender, and sends it to the states for ratification.

1939: The German ocean liner St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, is turned away from the Florida coast by U.S. officials.

1942: The World War II Battle of Midway begins, resulting in a decisive American victory against Japan and marking the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: A 36-year-old Hermitage man accused of killing a teenage girl and wounding two other people in separate incidents, faces charges by Sharon and Hermitage police.

Trumbull County commissioners Arthur U. Magee and Christopher Lardis say the new $4.9 million Family Court Center will remain closed through the year because of a shortage of funds. Domestic Relations/Juvenile Judge Peter Panagis says the county has the money to open the center immediately.

1972: Paul Schell, Vindicator staff photographer, wins an award in the Associated Press Society of Ohio’s annual news and photography competition for his shot of bodies strewn along a West Federal Street sidewalk after an accident that killed seven people.

Youngstown high school valedictorians are honored by the Downtown Kiwanis Club.

Starring in “Can-Can” at the Kenley Players at the Packard Music Hall in Warren, Ann Miller and Terence Monk.

1962: St. Dominic wins the Parochial Grade School Track and Field Meet; Chuck Young of St. James, Warren, is named outstanding athlete.

Triplets – two girls and a boy, Denise, Diane and Daniel — are born to Virginia O’Hara at St. Elizabeth Hospital. Her husband, Jerome, is a printer at the Truscon Division of Republic Steel Corp. ,

1937: After four hours deliberation, a jury of seven men and five women acquit John W. Deetrick, metallurgist, of first degree murder in the shooting death of his wife, Ruth, in their North Side home.

City Law Director Vern Thomas tells Common Pleas Judge David G. Jenkins that Mayor Lionel Evans’ ban on the sale of beer and liquor during the duration of the steel strike is reasonable and does not infringe on the property rights of liquor dealers.