Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, June 12, the 164th day of 2012. There are 202 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1665: England installs a municipal government in New York, formerly the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.

1776: Virginia’s colonial legislature becomes the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.

1898: Philippine nationalists declare independence from Spain.

1920: The Republican national convention, meeting in Chicago, nominates Warren G. Harding for president on the 10th ballot.

1939: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y.

1942: Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, receives a diary for her 13th birthday; in it, she writes, “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to with anyone, and I hope you will provide much support and comfort.” (Less than a month later, Anne and her family went into hiding from the Nazis.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: At $393,500, Terreri & Sons Contracting Co. submits the apparent low bid for removal of asbestos from the Ross Industrial Park buildings that will be used by the New Avanti Motors Co.

The Ohio Department of Health approves St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center to perform kidney transplants.

1972: An early morning explosion rips apart a 1971 Cadillac owned by Joseph Gaudio outside his Greenbrier Village apartment in Austintown.

Youngstown school officials ask the FBI to investigate two fires and vandalism at East High and Roosevelt Elementary schools.

A Youngstown native, Judith Hird, will be ordained at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Freeport, Pa., and will serve as pastor of a Lutheran church in America congregation, the first woman to do so.

Richard H. Reddinger is installed as president of the Girard Area Jaycees.

1962: An Erie Lackawanna freight train strikes a car at the Route 6 crossing a mile north of Cortland, killing Charles D. Brady, a former Warren police officer.

The Rev. Eugene C. Beach, pastor of First Christian Church, takes over the reins of the Rotary Club presidency from Mel Ogram.

Over the objection of state Supt. E.E. Holt, the Ohio Board of Education transfers 49 students from the Youngstown School District to the Lowellville School District.

1937: Turmoil breaks out in Youngstown City Council chambers as A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders protest council’s action in giving Mayor Lionel Evans additional authority to deal with the steel strike crisis.

Thousands of Germans, members of the Maennerchors of three states, descend on Youngstown for a songfest under the sponsorship of the Central Ohio Singing Society.