Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, June 17, the 168th day of 2014. There are 197 days left in the year.

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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 suffered heavy losses.

1789: During the French Revolution, the Third Estate declares itself a national assembly, and undertakes to frame a constitution. (This gathering gives rise to the political terms “left wing” and “right wing,” with deputies representing commoners sitting to the left of the assembly president, and nobles sitting to the right.)

1928: Amelia Earhart embarks on a trans-Atlantic flight from Newfoundland to Wales with pilots Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon, becoming the first woman to make the trip as a passenger.

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

1944: The Republic of Iceland is established.

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: The last of the Mavar supermarkets in the Youngstown area will close by order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

About 350 people pay $50 to attend the premiere of “An Unremarkable Life” at the Basil Theater in Hermitage. The movie was filmed in the Shenango Valley and one of its stars, Patricia Neal, attended the premiere.

Quoting Aristotle, businessman John J. Cafaro tells 900 graduates of Youngstown State University that “the roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

1974: Lykes-Youngstown Corp. announces a three-year $200 million expansion and modernization program for Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., including a new basic oxygen plant at Campbell.

The Ohio Bell Telephone Co. will spend $7 million on a new equipment building on West Rayen Avenue to improve service in the Youngstown “Riverside” exchanges.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for the body of former Warren area boxer Bobby Hughes, 46, who disappeared after a boating accident in Lake Erie, 8 miles from shore. His son, Hudson, 14, also drowned after their boat was swamped by high waves.

1964: Norma Jean Carter, 18, and Juanita Powell, 9, of Youngstown are killed when a semi-trailer slams into the back of their stalled car on the Ohio Turnpike near Toledo.

Fred Felger of New Springfield wins the top trophies in the Mahoning Valley Rose Society’s annual show at the McKelvey Auditorium.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan wins overwhelming House approval of his $14.3 million appropriations bill for the Shenango and West Branch reservoirs and the Crab Creek flood control project in Youngstown.

1939: More than 500 apparel workers in Youngstown will receive wage increases if a recommended national minimum wage rate of 40 cents an hour for the industry is adopted by the Wage-Hour Administration’s apparel committee.

The only woman head of a union in Mahoning County is Jean Johnston, newly re-elected president of Local B-1067, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, representing telephone operators.

Charley Fowler marks his 80th birthday still active as publisher of the Mahoning Dispatch, a weekly newspaper published in Canfield.