YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, June 10, the 161st day of 2015. There are 204 days left in the year.

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1864: The Confederate Congress authorizes military service for men between age 17 and 70.

1935: Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.

1940: Italy declares war on France and Britain; Canada declares war on Italy. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking at the University of Virginia, says the U.S. stance toward the conflict is shifting from one of “neutrality” to “nonbelligerency.”

1944: German forces massacre 642 residents of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane.

1967: The Middle East War ends as Israel and Syria agree to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.

1971: President Richard M. Nixon lifts a two- decades-old trade embargo on China.

2010: Army Secretary John McHugh announces that an investigation has found that potentially hundreds of remains at Arlington National Cemetery are misidentified or misplaced.

2014: In a stunning assault that exposes Iraq’s eroding central authority, al-Qaida-inspired militants overrun much of Mosul.

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1990: Ronald Klingle, a former steel-plant environmentalist, and Darrell Wilson, a former landfill inspector, have seen phenomenal growth in just four years of their company American Waste Systems in Liberty Township and are anticipating additional growth.

Gangatharen Pillay, a former circus gymnast who has played the Palladium in London and “The Ed Sullivan Show,” has retired to Lawrence County, Pa., where he operates B.G. Entertainment Enterprises, a talent-booking company.

The first use of the “battered woman syndrome” as a legal defense in Trumbull County fails as a jury finds Linda Lou Flowers of Howland guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of her husband, James.

1975: A large contingent of business and civic leaders voice their opposition to plans to abandon service on part of the Erie Lackawanna Railway’s Niles-Lisbon line during a hearing in Youngstown City Council chambers.

Members of the Liberty Police Department return to work, ending a weekend strike after township trustees file suit seeking their firing under the state’s Ferguson Act.

Paula L. Williams of Niles is installed as honored queen of Bethel 35, International Order of Job’s Daughters, during a ceremony at the Masonic Temple.

1965: Youngstown police arrest two Youngstown University students who admitted purchasing marijuana cigarettes from a Campbell “pusher” and police say as many as 100 YU students have been buying marijuana from the same source.

R. Thornton Beeghly, president of Metal Carbides Co., is elected president of the Youngstown Club, succeeding Charles B. Cushwa Jr.

More than 800 prominent Republicans from Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana and Jefferson counties attend a $100-a-plate “Salute to Ray Bliss” at Idora Park. U.S. Sen. Thurston B. Morton of Kentucky is the main speaker.

1940: Youngstown City Council appropriates $3,000 to finance a short 65-day season for the city’s swimming pools.

The Magnolia Petroleum Co., which is drilling for oil in the western part of Mahoning County, asks Youngstown City Council to consider leasing approximately 550 acres of city property in the Berlin Center Reservoir area for drilling purposes.

Nearly 8,000 people from eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania attend the annual Polish Day outing at Idora Park.