YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, June 6, the 157th day of 2015. There are 208 days left in the year. Today is the 71st anniversary of D-Day.

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On this date in:

1799: American politician and orator Patrick Henry dies at Red Hill Plantation in Virginia.

1925: Walter Percy Chrysler founds the Chrysler Corp.

1944: During World War II, the liberation of German-occupied western Europe begins as Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, France, on “D-Day.”

1966: Black activist James Meredith is shot and wounded as he walks along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.

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

1994: President Bill Clinton joins leaders from America’s World War II allies to mark the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy.

2010: The Vatican releases a working paper that says the international community is ignoring the plight of Christians in the Middle East.

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1990: The excitement that typically accompanies the last day of school has an underlying sadness for students and teachers as Holy Name School in Youngstown closes its doors for the last time.

Despite vociferous protests from some citizens, Canfield City Council votes 3-2 to rezone the former Mahoning County Home property on Herbert Road to allow construction of a $90 million mixture of 418 homes and condominiums.

Youngstown Law Director Edwin Romero says an attempt by city council to fund the reopening of the Oakland Avenue fire station by introducing 18 ordinances each allocating $4,999 is illegal.

1975: Arsonists keep Youngstown firefighters busy, setting three fires in vacant buildings over a period of an hour and a half.

Everett Lee White of Cadiz, Ohio, is being held in Mahoning County jail after being arrested by the FBI on an air-piracy charge in a 1969 hijacking of a plane to Cuba. White says he has suffered enough during six years in a Cuban prison.

Trumbull County deputy sheriffs arrest a 14-year-old Southington boy in the death of Ruth D. Grantz, 7, of Champion.

Nearly 4 inches of rain in some parts of the Mahoning River watershed during the first five days of the month send reservoir waters gushing over spillways and inundate many lowlands and golf courses.

1965: Robert Renton is awarded Eagle Scout rank at a court of honor at Bethel Lutheran Church.

The Rayen School gets its first American Field Service exchange student, J. Reinhart Koessler from Germany, who will live with Dr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Coombs on Fifth Avenue.

John B. Hassay is chairman of the 43rd Slovak Day at Idora Park.

1940: Edward Pedro, 21, of Struthers is fatally wounded when he “shot it out” with seven police officers at the Bus Arcade, 234 W. Federal St. Police said they have no motive for Pedro’s opening fire during an encounter with police Officer Myron Burnside or why he didn’t surrender when reinforcements arrived.

Three prominent Youngstown men are appointed to a national committee to enlist large gifts for the American Red Cross in its war-relief campaign. The men are Frank Purnell, president of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., George C. Brainard, president of General Fireproofing Co. and Harry L. Rownd, retired industrialist and financier.

Mayor William B. Spagnola names nine men and a woman to the Youngstown Safety Commission in compliance with an ordinance passed by city council.