Years Ago

Today is Monday, June 11, the 163rd day of 2012. There are 203 days left in the year.

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1776: The Continental Congress forms a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence calling for freedom from Britain.

1919: Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner.

1936: Kansas Gov. Alfred “Alf” Landon is nominated for president at the Republican national convention in Cleveland.

1962: Three prisoners at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay stage an escape, leaving the island on a makeshift raft. Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin were never found or heard from again.

1987: Margaret Thatcher becomes the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office as her Conservatives hold onto a reduced majority in Parliament.

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1987: Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey visits Sharon Steel’s Victor Posner Works in Farrell and calls on local banks to loan the company the money needed to keep operating.

Youngstown-born Actress Elizabeth Hartman, nominated for an Academy Award in 1966 for her role in “A Patch of Blue” leaps to her death from her fifth floor apartment in Pittsburgh. She was 43.

1972:Three Youngstown area men are graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy: Ensigns Donald Carlson, John E. Shaffer and Michael J. Milo.

1962:State liquor agents, working with the Youngstown police intelligence squad, raid a well-established still in the basement of a W. Woodland Avenue home, arresting 11 people.

An 11-year-old Warren boy, Charles W. Sayers, is struck and killed as he ran in front of a car while crossing the Route 88 Causeway over Mosquito Lake where he and his family were fishing.

1937: W.W. Howes, an assistant postmaster general, tells a Senate committee that the post office will not deliver packages mailed across picket lines at strikebound steel plants. A Pittsburgh man reports a package of clothing he mailed to his son inside a Republic Steel plant in Warren was returned as “undeliverable.”

Mahoning County deputies use tear gas to help city police disperse nearly 500 pickets at the Republic Steel Corp. under the Market Street viaduct.