Years Ago

Today is Saturday, June 16, the 168th day of 2012. There are 198 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland. (She escapes almost a year later but ends up imprisoned again.)

1812: The City Bank of New York (later Citibank) opens for business.

1858: Accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln says the slavery issue has to be resolved, declaring, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

1903: Ford Motor Co. is incorporated.

1911: IBM has its beginnings as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. It is incorporated in New York state.

1932: President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis are renominated at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

1941: National Airport (now Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) opens for business with a ceremony attended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1952: “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” is published in the United States for the first time by Doubleday & Co.

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1987: The Multipurpose Senior Center at 1361 Fifth Ave. will remain open until a study determines its long-range future, says Martha Murphy, executive director of the District 11 Area Agency on Aging.

A House subcommittee has given preliminary approval of $1 million for a new study proposed by U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. for a Lake Erie-to-Ohio River canal.

A company official says he’s confident that workers in the New Avanti Motor Corp. plant in Youngstown would shun any attempt at organization by the United Auto Workers union.

1972: Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter denies having said he intends to run for governor on the Republican ticket.

A jury of six men and six women is discharged in the trial of James Anderson, charged with seven counts of first-degree vehicular manslaughter in a downtown Youngstown tragedy, after reporting that it was hopelessly deadlocked.

Nearly 7,200 Mahoning County households taking part in the federal food stamp program will have a boost in monthly income as a result of new regulations.

The Youngstown Board of Education will borrow $2 million against anticipated revenue to meet new salary adjustments and other costs in August.

1962: Youngstown Ladder Truck No. 7 conducts drills at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Niles, extending its ladder 80 feet to reach the tip of the cross atop the church. The pastor, the Rev. Henry Fabrizio, and a workman applying gilding to the cross, are also allowed to scale the ladder.

The Youngstown Civil Service Commission wants Western Reserve University to prepare five promotional exams for the police department.

Dr. William A. Kolozsi, Columbiana County coroner, rules that 2-year-old Gerry Phillips of Salem died of accidental insecticide poisoning after wading into a puddle on a nearby fruit farm and absorbing the poison into his skin.

1937: Phone service in Warren and nearby rural areas is halted when local and long-distance operators go on strike for higher wages.

Trumbull Common Pleas Judge Lynn B. Griffith issues an injunction barring pickets from railroad property and orders railroads to refrain from making runs into or out of strikebound plants in Warren and Niles.

Bernard Wittenauer of Hubbard, an employee of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., who says he wants to work, tells the U.S. Senate and House labor committees in Washington that 500 steel workers who support a strike are keeping 15,000 out of work at Sheet & Tube mills.