Years Ago

Today is Friday, June 15, the 167th day of 2012. There are 199 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1775: The Second Continental Congress votes unanimously to appoint George Washington head of the Continental Army.

1864: Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton signs an order establishing a military burial ground, which becomes Arlington National Cemetery.

1902: The 20th Century Limited, an express passenger train between New York and Chicago, begins service. (The Limited makes its last run in December 1967.)

1944: American forces begin their successful invasion of Saipan during World War II.

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1987: Dr. Frances Couch, medical director of the new Center for Women’s Health at the Western Reserve Care System, says people who ask her why she came to Youngstown don’t seem to recognize what a good quality of life the area enjoys.

The Ohio Edison Co. is accepting claims from residents of a Girard neighborhood where a power surge damaged appliances in at least 15 homes.

1972: Gov. John J. Gilligan names Ann Isroff, local community leader, to a five-year term on the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees.

Three boys and a girl arrested for breaking over 100 window panes in the Bennett School tell police they committed the vandalism because they “didn’t have anything better to do.”

1962: Sister M. Baptista, HHM, administrator of St. Elizabeth Hospital, is transferred to St. Joseph Riverside Hospital and will be succeeded by Sister M. Consolata, HHM.

Edward C. Prinsen, owner of the Palace and State theaters in downtown Youngstown, dies in North Side Hospital at the age of 69. He bought his first theater in Wisconsin at the age of 18, which he sold to join the Army during World War I.

1937: Dynamite destroys a section of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s main track near Waddell Park in Niles less than two hours after a 35-car train used the track to deliver supplies to the Republic Steel Corp. plant in Warren.

Republic Steel Corp. files suit in federal court in Washington seeking an order that the Post Office deliver packages to its Niles and Warren plants.