Years Ago

Today is Sunday, June 10, the 162nd day of 2012. There are 204 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1692: Bridget Bishop is hanged, the first official execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.

1861: During the Civil War, Confederate troops rout Union soldiers in the Battle of Big Bethel in Virginia.

1907: Eleven men in five cars set out from the French embassy in Beijing on a race to Paris. (Prince Scipione Borghese of Italy is the first to arrive in the French capital two months later.)

1921: President Warren G. Harding signs into law the Budget and Accounting Act, which creates the Bureau of the Budget and the General Accounting Office.

1922: Singer-actress Judy Garland is born Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn.

1935: Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.

1942: During World War II, German forces massacre 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.

1967: The Middle East War ends as Israel and Syria agree to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.

1971: President Richard M. Nixon lifts a two-decades-old trade embargo on China.

1991: Eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., is abducted by Phillip and Nancy Garrido; Jaycee is held by the couple for 18 years before she is found by authorities.

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: Columbiana County Clerk of Courts Carl Stacey threatens to file a lawsuit against county commissioners if they do not release more money for his office.

About 30 residents of Poland Township complain that four years after a chemical spill on Route 224, the smell lingers and promises that their water would be tested for safety remain unfulfilled. An official of Lubrizol says a complete breakdown of what was in the spill will not be released because it is a trade secret.

A North Bloomfield woman files a $60 million lawsuit against Geagua County Community Hospital, the Cleveland Chapter of the American Red Cross and three doctors contending she contracted AIDS as the result of a blood transfusion received during knee surgery.

1972: Mahoning County Common Pleas Court judges order raises of 5.5 percent for their staffs through a journal entry that will require county commissioners to provide more than $5,000 to cover the increased cost for the rest of the year.

Frank Nemec, president and CEO of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. calls for revival of an effort to build a Lake Erie-to-Ohio River canal in an effort to save the badly eroded Mahoning Valley steel industry.

Ted Conner of WKBN, who promoted a fund to place “The Old Rugged Cross” in Lake Park Cemetery in the 1950s, says it is time for the cross to be replaced.

1962: William Kimble, 12, of New Springfield, is the Ohio Marble Champion after winning the competition at Dover, sponsored by the VFW.

A loaded Army submachine gun is found in a sewer on Shady Run Road, near where S. Joseph “Sandy” Naples was killed two years earlier.

Two young robbers, one described as about 15, the other even younger, strike Mary Woodford, 68, a clerk at Blair’s Dry Cleaning on Belmont Avenue after she could not find a pair of trousers they wanted to pick up.

1937: Youngstown food dealers are banding together to find a way of enforcing agreed-upon store hours, which include closing at 1 p.m. on Thursdays and 6 p.m. other week days.

Mahoning County Sheriff Ralph Elser says he won’t be hiring any more special deputies for strike control because nearly 200 men have volunteered their services.