YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, June 16, the 167th day of 2015. There are 198 days left in the year.

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1858: Accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln says the slavery issue has to be resolved, declaring, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

1903: Ford Motor Co. is incorporated.

1911: IBM has its beginnings as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. and is incorporated in New York State.

1933: The National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signature. (The act was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.)

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is founded as President Roosevelt signed the Banking Act of 1933.

1944: George Stinney, a 14-year-old black youth, becomes the youngest person to die in the electric chair as the state of South Carolina executes him for the murders of two white girls, Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 7.

1955: Members of Argentina’s military bombard the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires in a failed attempt to assassinate President Juan Domingo Peron and his Cabinet, causing hundreds of civilian deaths.

1963: The world’s first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, 26, is launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6; she spent 71 hours in flight, circling the Earth 48 times before returning safely.

1987: A jury in New York acquits Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four youths he said were going to rob him; however, Goetz is convicted of illegal weapons possession. (In 1996, a civil jury ordered Goetz to pay $43 million to one of the people he’d shot.)

1999: Vice President Al Gore opens his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.

2010: After meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House, BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg announces the oil giant is establishing a $20 billion claim fund and suspending dividends as he insisted, “We care about the small people.”

2014: President Barack Obama notifies Congress that up to 275 troops could be sent to Iraq to provide support and security for U.S. personnel and the American Embassy in Baghdad.

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1990: Three Muslim men from the Youngstown area are charged with criminal confinement in Angola, Ind., accused of kidnapping a female family member because she married outside her culture.

The Meander Brewing Co. will receive a $165,000 loan from the Small Business Administration to renovate the former Dutch Pantry restaurant on Mahoning Avenue into a small brewery and pub.

A federal judge in Cleveland dismisses a lawsuit by Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro against the Youngstown Board of Education over the board’s refusal to extend Ungaro’s leave of absence from his job as a school administrator.

1975: Susan Kay Banks of Ravenna, a Kent State University graduate who competed as Miss Warren, is crowned Miss Ohio.

Richard W. Roberts, 27, manager of the Ponderosa Steak House in Boardman, is in fair condition in South Side Hospital after being shot by one of two robbers who entered by an unlocked door just after closing time and forced him to open a safe. A third man, the driver of the getaway car, was captured by Boardman police.

Dr. Timothy Moritz, Ohio commissioner of mental health, says the new Doris Burdman Home at 278 Broadway is the largest transitional facility in the state. About 500 people attend dedication ceremonies for the home.

1965: Dr. George M. Wilcox, a distinguished member of the education department at Youngstown University for 31 years, dies. He organized the department and got it accredited after coming to the college in 1933.

Five Meadville, Pa., teenagers, including a brother and sister, are killed when their car collides with a steel-hauling tractor-trailer on Route 62 near Sandy Lake. Dead are: Robert Watkins, 17; Ann Feleppa, 16; John Feleppa, 15; Raymond Weir, 19, and Guy Porfilio.

Singing star Robert Goulet cancels his run in “Carousel” at the Kenly Players in Warren after a blood vessel bursts in his vocal cords. Stephen Douglass is his stand-in.

1940: The Poland Post of the American Legion announces that it is canceling its July Fourth fireworks so that it can donate $58 in the fireworks fund to the Red Cross European war relief fund.

A final group of six of Youngstown College’s first crop of air pilots will try for their wings in the Civil Aeronautics Authority’s pilot-training program.

Doris Mefort Eells of Lisbon is the guest soloist at the first pops concert of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra at Idora Park.