YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, June 4, the 154th day of 2015. There are 211 days left in the year.

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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 some 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France, ends.

1998: A federal judge sentences Terry Nichols to life in prison for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

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1990: At Youngstown State University and Kent State Trumbull Campus, about half of all incoming students are placed in developmental courses that address a deficiency in areas such as reading, writing or math.

Saying the Mahoning Valley deserves special help from the state, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr. unveils a 10-point jobs initiative plan for the Valley.

A telephone company employee abruptly halts the FBI’s probe of Mahoning Valley gambling activities by alerting a Warren bookie that the phones of a Trumbull County rackets figure were bugged.

1975: Warren faces a future without bus service after voters reject a quarter-mill tax, 4,461-3,568, that would have subsidized Suburban Transit Inc.

George Vukovich, clerk of Youngstown Municipal Court, wins the Democratic nomination for mayor with a margin of 2,331 votes over his nearest of three rivals, Councilman Jerome McNally.

Tom Baker, 42, is found dead in the flooded basement of his Canfield-Niles Road home, draped over a live electrical wire connected to a sump pump.

1965: The Mahoning Soil Conservation District is named the state’s outstanding district in the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.’s annual Soil conservation awards program.

Carl C. Rigsby, general manager of the Packard Electric Division of General Motors, cuts a cake celebrating the 75 th anniversary of the company at its Warren headquarters.

Struthers High School senior Thomas J. Belichick is appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy. He has been on the track team, captain of the football team and a member of the National Honor Society.

1940: City Engineer Ralph W. O’Neill says work on Youngstown’s municipal airport is more than a month behind schedule, and heavy equipment will be brought in with the hope of getting the job back on schedule.

Frank P. Whitney of Collinwood High School is the commencement speaker when 78 graduates of Austintown Fitch High School receive their diplomas.

Youngstown City Council rejects daylight-saving time, saying there are legal questions as to whether council has the authority to establish it.