YEARS AGO

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Today is Saturday, June 4, the 156th day of 2016. There are 210 days left in the year.

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On this date:

1783: The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their hot-air balloon, which did not carry any passengers, over Annonay, France.

1892: The Sierra Club is incorporated in San Francisco.

1919: Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing citizens the right to vote regardless of their gender, and sends it to the states for ratification.

1940: During World War II, the Allied military evacuation of some 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France, ends.

1972: A jury in San Jose, Calif., acquits radical activist Angela Davis of murder and kidnapping in a deadly courthouse shootout in Marin County in 1970.

1986: Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, pleads guilty in Washington to conspiring to deliver information related to the national defense to Israel. (Pollard, sentenced to life in prison, was released on parole Nov. 20, 2015.)

1990: Dr. Jack Kevorkian carries out his first publicly assisted suicide.

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1991: Fowler Township trustees say they are prepared to take legal action to block the use of land owned by the Warren City School District from being used as a “work farm” for young misdemeanor offenders in a program operated by Atty. John Leopardi and Residential Education Alternatives.

Ohio’s coal mining industry could lose 10,000 jobs over the next five years because of the federal Clean Air Act, says Nancy Hollister, director of Gov. George V. Voinovich’s Office of Appalachia.

After Mahoning County commissioners’ vote to enact a 0.5 percent sales-tax increase, the Mahoning County Board of Elections votes unanimously to rescind salary cuts of 10 percent for managers and 5 percent for full-time deputy clerks.

1976: “Jimmy Carter’s economic policies are closer to the Nixon-Ford economic polices than to Democrats,” Morris Udall tells a group of workers at Copperweld Steel Co. in Warren. Udall says that if Carter wins Ohio in the Democratic primary, it will be difficult to stop him from winning the party’s presidential nomination.

An ad hoc nursing home committee tells Mahoning County commissioners that a half-percent countywide sales tax may be the solution to the $1 million deficit at the county’s nursing home.

William G. Mittler, advertising manager of The Vindicator, is named by Gov. James A. Rhodes to a nine-year term on the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees.

1966: Construction of the Canfield Swim Club is blocked after residents of Bradford Drive file a lawsuit.

Youngstown Mayor Anthony Flask proposes expanding the city’s Urban Renewal Department from 12 employees to 40.

Fanos George of Main Street, Niles, turns over to police a set of encyclopedias that was left behind after George threw a persistent book peddler off his porch. The salesman had come calling at 12:30 a.m.

1941: Heavy weekend rains help offset a dry spring. More than a half-inch of rain brought smiles to farmers’ faces and caused Lake Milton to rise for the first time in weeks.

A committee of local pilots asks the Youngstown Board of Control to delay awarding a contract for operating the hangar at the new $32.6 million municipal airport. The pilots want assurances that the largest number of fliers have access to the facility.

Warren and Trumbull County open their USO drives with a goal of $12,000.