Years Ago

Today is Sunday, June 17, the 169th day of 2012. There are 197 days left in the year. This is Father’s Day.

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On this date in:

1397: The Treaty of Kalmar is signed, creating a union between the kingdoms of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

1775: The Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill results in a costly victory for the British, who suffer heavy losses.

1885: The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor aboard the French ship Isere.

1930: President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which boosts U.S. tariffs to historically high levels, prompting foreign retaliation.

1942: The U.S. Army begins publishing “Yank, the Army Weekly,” featuring the debut of the cartoon character G.I. Joe.

1972: President Richard M. Nixon’s eventual downfall begins with the arrest of five burglars inside Democratic national headquarters in Washington, D.C.’s Watergate complex.

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1987: LTV Corp. will spend more than $5 million removing hazardous materials from shutdown Youngstown area plants and will demolish those plants in future years.

The Senate highways and transportation panel approves legislation that would increase the speed limit on rural freeways from 55 mph to 65 mph.

1972: “Our society must accept the cost of education as a concrete investment, fully as important as expressways, post office and computers,” Dr. William S. Carlson, president of the University of Toledo, declares at the Youngstown State University commencement.

Trumbull County Commissioner John F. McCloskey says the board of commissioners is the “laughingstock of the county” and that all three members should resign.

1962: Former OSU star Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer face an 18-hole playoff after finishing in a dead heat after 72 holes at the 62nd National Open at Oakmont Country Club near Pittsburgh.

The state fire marshal threatens to padlock Trumbull County’s 89-year-old county jail unless county commissioners produce a plan for construction of a new building.

The Mercer County Historical Society is completing plans to move the county’s famed log cabin from the Bindley farm off West Middlesex Road to Mercer.

1937: The chairman of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, Phillip Murray, tells the Senate post office committee that Republic Steel Corp. is demanding postal service to its Mahoning Valley plants because it is preparing for a massacre, similar to that in Chicago, where eight strikers were killed.

Struthers Mayor T.A. Roberts vetoes a resolution of “neutrality” in the steel strike passed unanimously by city council because it would tie his hands in enforcing the law in the city.

Responding to a Vindicator editorial calling for an end to the steel strike, Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., says the union would have to first renounce calls for a closed shop and dues check-off and must take responsibility for the actions of its members.