YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, June 18, the 169th day of 2015. There are 196 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1778: American forces enter Philadelphia as the British withdraw during the Revolutionary War.

1873: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony is found guilty by a judge in Canandaigua, N.Y., of breaking the law by casting a vote in the 1872 presidential election. (The judge fined Anthony $100, but she never paid the penalty.)

1983: Astronaut Sally K. Ride becomes America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues blast off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day mission.

1992: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Georgia v. McCollum, rules that criminal defendants could not use race as a basis for excluding potential jurors from their trials.

2010: Death-row inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner dies in a barrage of bullets as Utah carries out its first firing squad execution in 14 years. (Gardner had been sentenced to death for fatally shooting attorney Michael Burdell during a failed escape attempt from a Salt Lake City courthouse.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Atty. Clarence A. Covington Jr., who has been a member of the Boardman Zoning Commission since its inception in 1948, says Boardman Township still has lots of room to grow.

A Youngstown State University accounting and finance professor, Dr. Thakol Nunthirapakorn, is spending the summer in Thailand helping to develop that country’s first doctoral program in business administration at the National Institute of Developmental Administration Bangkok.

Joseph Longo, national sales manager for Youngstown’s B.J. Alan Fireworks Co., says, “Fireworks are not as dangerous as people think,” noting that in 1989 “there were only 9,000 fireworks-related injuries in the United States.”

1975: Despite chilly water and cloudy skies, youngsters flock to Youngstown’s swimming pools on opening day.

A 9-year-old Lake Milton boy, Mike Gemmarco Jr., drowns after falling off a raft in 14 feet of water in Lake Milton.

Robert Armstrong, 11, of Warren is in serious condition in Trumbull Memorial Hospital after being stabbed by an 11-year-old girl after an argument on the way home from school.

1965: DeYarman Wallace of Canfield, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. research supervisor, receives the F.H. Waring Award for outstanding achievements in industrial-waste control.

The winning essayists in the Daughter of the American Revolution good citizenship contest are Joann Lange, Jackson-Milton; Christine Bauman, South High and Barbara Kotch, Campbell Memorial.

David Owens, 14, of Canfield, a worker at the Megerle & Pfile carnival at Parmatown Shopping Center, is wounded by a stray shot when a group of 25 youths go on a rampage at the carnival.

1940: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan announces an additional $150,000 from the Works Progress Administration for materials at Youngstown’s new municipal airport. The WPA appropriation for work and materials at the airport now exceeds $1 million.

The Mahoning Chapter of the American Red Cross’s drive for $80,000 for aid for European war refugees exceeds $50,000.

John H. Chase, executive secretary of the Youngstown Playground Association, is re-elected president of the League of Ohio Nature Clubs during the annual convention in Columbus.