YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, June 13, the 164th day of 2015. There are 201 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1927: Aviation hero Charles Lindbergh is honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

1966: The Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional right to consult with an attorney and to remain silent.

1971: The New York Times begins publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America’s involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967 that had been leaked to the paper by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg.

2005: A jury in Santa Maria, Calif., acquits Michael Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch.

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1990: Singing star Stevie Wonder surprises about 300 people attending the funeral of Louella M. White in Warren, singing the “Lord’s Prayer.” Wonder knows White’s daughter, Mary Jo Moore, who works for Motown Records. Family members knew he was coming, but not most of the mourners.

After 24 years, Warren Western Reserve High School closes. The Warren City School District will revert to having one high school, Harding, in the fall.

Mayor Patrick Ungaro balks at a proposal by Councilman Lock Beachum that the city pay Pan Am World Services $100,000 a year to manage the Youngstown Municipal Airport.

1975: Atty. Robert A. Manchester II of Canfield is elected president of Rotary International at the worldwide association’s 66th annual convention in Montreal, Quebec.

Sidney Rigelhaupt, retired Mahoning County common pleas judge, will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree when he speaks at the 53rd annual spring commencement of his alma mater, Youngstown State University.

A recount gives challenger James R. Walker a six-vote victory over East Liverpool Mayor Norman R. Bucher in the May Democratic primary election.

1965: Lt. Commander Robert Shumaker of New Wilmington, Pa., is one of two U.S. Navy pilots captured by the North Vietnamese to be interviewed by London trade unionists. Accounts of the interviews were published in the Sunday Times of London.

L.A. Beeghly, Youngstown industrialist and philanthropist, is identified as the hitherto anonymous donor of $1 million for a new library at Ohio Wesleyan University.

The Hubbard Women’s Golf Association opens play for the season. Scoring the fewest putts were Mrs. George Rowland, Mrs. Iva Long and Mrs. Frank Zitnik,.

1940: An engineer from General Electric Co. in Philadelphia demonstrates “frequency modulation’’ equipment at WMFJ radio in Youngstown, a system that promises radio reception without static from man-made or natural sources.

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus plays to capacity crowds of 25,000 and 30,000 in Youngstown, despite heavy mud at the circus grounds on Route 422 near the Lincoln Park bridge.

The Rev. David T. Williams, 86-year-old retired pastor of Youngstown Congregational Church, receives a doctor of divinity degree at Western Reserve University in Cleveland 60 years after his graduation from the college.