Years Ago

Today is Sunday, June 8, the 159th day of 2014. There are 206 days left in the year.

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1845: Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, dies in Nashville, Tenn..

1864: Abraham Lincoln is nominated for another term as president during the National Union (Republican) Party’s convention in Baltimore.

1948: The “Texaco Star Theater” debuts on NBC-TV with Milton Berle guest-hosting the first program. (Berle is later named the show’s permanent host.)

1953: The U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.

Eight tornadoes strike Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, killing 126 people.

1972: During the Vietnam War, an Associated Press photographer captures the image of 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc as she runs naked and severely burned from the scene of a South Vietnamese napalm attack.

1982: President Ronald Reagan becomes the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.

1987: Fawn Hall begins testifying at the Iran- Contra hearings, describing how, as secretary to National Security aide Oliver L. North, she helped to shred documents.

1998: The National Rifle Association elects actor Charlton Heston its president.

2013: Palace Malice takes charge on the turn for home and wins the Belmont Stakes.

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1989: The city of Niles will give Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish free electricity for its buildings for a year in exchange for land to build a substation near its school.

Niles officials are unsure of when the Niles Park Pool will open because of a continuing dispute between the city and its service workers over the use of Private Industry Council summer workers to prepare the pool.

The Boardman Township Zoning Commission approves language regulating drilling for gas and oil in the township.

1974: The Youngstown Board of Education files suit against the parents of five boys seeking payment of $8,115 for damage caused by vandals to three schools in 1972.

Between 20 and 25 hot air balloons are expected for the Ohio Open Hot Air Balloon Rally at Sebring. It is part of the 75th anniversary celebration for the village.

The Trumbull Memorial Hospital School of Nursing graduates 46 nurses at its 61st annual commencement.

1964: Four Youngstown area foreign language teachers will accompany 45 of their students to European schools over the summer as part of the Foreign Language League study-tour program.

Ohio Gov. James Rhodes, who brought the national governors’ conference to Cleveland, says he is working to bring the 1968 Republican National Convention to the city.

More than 300 people, many of them men and women who studied music at Woodrow Wilson High School, attend a reception to honor retiring music teacher William Omeis, who joined the Wilson faculty when the school opened.

1939: More than 200 young men and women of nearly every nationality dance and sing in native folk costume in Mahoning County’s first annual observance of “New Citizens’ Day” at Stambaugh Auditorium.

Atty. Donald J. Lynn, a Harvard man and specialist in utility law, succeeds Henry Caldwell as president of the Youngstown Rotary Club.

Rayen School’s tennis team bests Chaney, East, South, Woodrow Wilson, Struthers and Poland to win the Wheeler Trophy, emblematic of the Mahoning Valley Scholastic Tennis League championship.