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Today is Thursday, June 6, the 157th day of 2013. There are 208 days left in the year.

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1844: the Young Men’s Christian Association is founded in London.

1912: The greatest volcanic eruption of the 20th century takes place as Novarupta in Alaska erupts.

1925: Walter Percy Chry-sler founds the Chrysler Corp.

1932: The Senate approves, and President Herbert Hoover signs, a Revenue Act containing the first federal gasoline tax, which was one cent per gallon.

1933: The first drive-in movie theater is opened by Richard Hollingshead in Camden County, N.J.

1944: Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, France, on “D-Day,” during World War II.

1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy dies at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.

1982: Israeli forces invade Lebanon to drive Palestine Liberation Organization fighters out of the country.

1985: Authorities in Brazil exhume the body of Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious “Angel of Death” of the Nazi Holocaust.

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1988: The governors of Ohio and New York propose a national policy that would sharply reduce acid rain while protecting the interests of coal-producing states.

Mahoning and Trumbull counties’ convention bureaus are discussing a possible merger.

Twenty-two medical students from the Youngstown area graduate from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine at E.J. Thomas Hall in Akron.

1973: An Austintown truck driver, Robert J. Thornton Jr., 35, is shot to death in a Parkman Road tavern in Warren after scuffling with another man.

Between 400 and 500 of the 1,100 teachers in the Youngstown School District authorize Youngstown Education Association negotiators to call a strike if necessary before school opens in September.

1963: John L. Donahue, 7th District Court of Appeals judge since 1959, dies of a heart attack in St. Clairsville following a dinner of the Belmont County Bar Association.

Four new principals are named in the Youngstown City School District: Ruth Bowers, Theresa Gray, Sheldon Johnson and Merle Rosselle.

FBI agents join Warren police in investigating a daring $11,000 robbery at the Youngstown Road office of the Second National Bank .

1938: Helen Cercone, employee in her father’s beer garden at 2608 Glenwood Ave., says some vice squad raiders are still discriminating against certain persons and ignoring others in the enforcement of gambling laws.

A 16-year-old New Castle boy is killed and three other boys injured when lightning strikes a shed in which they had taken refuge from a terrific freak storm. Dead is Tony DeRosa; injured are his brothers, Billy and Michael, and Tommy Micco.

Associated Hospital Service, which recently began offering insurance against sickness in Youngstown, is proving popular, with 2,000 members enrolled in 30 organizations.

Dr. Castle W. Foard, professor of mathematics at Youngstown College, says there is no system for picking numbers that would allow a bettor to beat the bug.