Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, June 5, the 157th day of 2012. There are 209 days left in the year.

1794: Congress passes the Neutrality Act, which prohibits Americans from taking part in any military action against a country that is at peace with the United States.

1912: U.S. Marines land in Cuba at the order of President William Howard Taft to ensure order and protect U.S. interests.

1947: Secretary of State George C. Marshall gives a speech at Harvard University in which he outlines an aid program for Europe that comes to be known as The Marshall Plan.

1950: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Henderson v. United States, strikes down racially segregated railroad dining cars.

1967: War erupts in the Mideast as Israel raids military aircraft parked on the ground in Egypt; Syria, Jordan and Iraq enter the conflict.

1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested.

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: Challenging a Beaver Township ruling that barred construction of a warehouse on Columbiana-Canfield Road, the B.J. Alan Co. tells the court of appeals that a warehouse should not be subject to the same 300-foot setback rules that apply to a fireworks manufacturer.

Nemenz Foodland in Struthers breaks grounds for a $1.6 million expansion that is expected to create 49 jobs.

1972: Charles A. Mulligan, 38, of Boardman is arraigned in Los Angeles on charges of burglary of the United California Bank’s Laguna Niguel Branch in March in which between $1 million and $5 million was believed to be taken from safety deposit boxes. The burglary was similar to one at the Lordstown branch of Warren’s Second National Bank.

Two armed men accost two payroll clerks at the Waterford Park Race Track in Chester, W. Va., escaping with $13,500 in cash that was to be used to pay jockeys.

1962: Five Youngstown police cruisers respond to a group of youths who were on the prowl on the West Side, looking for another group that had been involved in a beating incident in Idora Park.

A violent thunderstorm tears the roof off the Youngstown Cartage Co. at 416 Covington St., damaging expensive machinery, engines and parts.

1937: Pickets using acetylene torches cut rail lines leading into the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. after Struthers police and Mahoning County deputies escort a rail car carrying food into the Campbell plant.

Mayor Lionel Evans and Finance Director Frank Barton say the city’s budget is up in the air until the effects of the steel strike on city finances is known.