Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, June 4, the 155th day of 2014. There are 210 days left in the year.

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1783: The Montgol- fier brothers first publicly demonstrate their hot-air balloon, which does not carry any passengers, over Annonay, France.

1784: Opera singer Elisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to make a nontethered flight aboard a Montgol- fier hot-air balloon, over Lyon, France.

1892: The Sierra Club is incorporated in San Francisco.

1919: Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing citizens the right to vote regardless of their gender and sends it to the states for ratification.

1939: The German ocean liner MS St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, is turned away from the Florida coast by U.S. officials.

1940: During World War II, the Allied military evacuation of more than 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France, ends.

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1989: “Edgar Allen Poe,” a pet raven that got away from its owner, Earl Schriver of Baden, Pa., during an outdoor show at Niles McKinley High School in October, returns to his roost 70 miles away after an absence of seven months.

The red brick farm house of Harris and Elva McClelland, which was built in 1848 by his grandfather, Joseph McClelland, in North Beaver Township in Lawrence County, Pa., is put on the National Register of Historic Places.

1974: Dr. Gary Branson of Columbus is hired to succeed Clyde C. Quinby as superintendent of Struthers schools.

The Mahoning County Children Services Board takes a stand against a resolution prepared by Youngstown City Councilman Emanuel Catsoules defining a single family unit as one with no more than two unrelated people.

1964: Suzi Schwartz, a Hayes Junior High student and Youngstown’s spelling bee champion, falls in the 11th round of the National Bee in Washington, D.C., falling on the word, “avocet.”

A Youngstown man found innocent of armed robbery at an Our Lady of Hungary bingo game, is secretly indicted under Ohio’s habitual criminal because he has three previous felony convictions.

William F. Maag Jr., editor of The Vindicator, resigns from the Mahoning County Board of Child Welfare, marking the first time in 62 years that a member of the family had not served on the board or its predecessor, the Glenwood Children’s Home.

1939: The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. male chorus directed by W. Gwynn Jenkins, wins the male chorus competition at the ninth annual Trumbull Eisteddfod, which attracted 1,400 to Harding High School auditorium.

Discarding his crutches in the last rounds, Henry Drazba, crippled 13-year-old Warren marbles champion, wins the Youngstown district crown at Evan Field.

L.L. Rummell, formerly of Ohltown and a graduate of Niles High in 1911 and Ohio State in 1915, is named by Gov. John W. Bricker to the board of trustees of OSU.