YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, June 5, the 157th day of 2016. There are 209 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1794: Congress passes the Neutrality Act, which prohibits Americans from taking part in any military action against a country that is at peace with the United States.

1884: Civil War hero Gen. William T. Sherman refuses the Republican presidential nomination, saying, “I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”

1916: The Arab Revolt against Turkish Ottoman rule begins during World War I.

1933: The United States goes off the gold standard.

1947: Secretary of State George C. Marshall gives a speech at Harvard University in which he outlines an aid program for Europe that comes to be known as The Marshall Plan.

1950: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Henderson v. United States, strikes down racially segregated railroad dining cars.

1963: Britain’s Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns after acknowledging an affair with call girl Christine Keeler, who was also involved with a Soviet spy, and lying to Parliament about it.

1967: War erupts in the Mideast as Israel raids military aircraft parked on the ground in Egypt; Syria, Jordan and Iraq enter the conflict.

1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary; gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is arrested.

1976: Fourteen people are killed when the Teton Dam in Idaho bursts.

1986: A federal jury in Baltimore convicts Ronald W. Pelton of selling secrets to the Soviet Union. (Pelton was sentenced to three life prison terms plus ten years.)

1997: Former CIA officer Harold J. Nicholson is sentenced to 231/2 years in prison for selling defense secrets to Russia after the Cold War.

2004: Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, dies in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.

2015: The Social Security Administration’s inspector general finds that disability beneficiaries have been overpaid by nearly $17 billion over the previous decade, raising alarms about the massive program.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: An Ohio House committee approves a bill requiring a 24-hour waiting period for women seeking an abortion and requiring the woman to sign a form stating that she has been provided material from the Ohio Department of Health outlining the stages of fetal development and the alternatives to abortion. State Rep. Michael Verich of Warren voted for the bill; Rep. Joseph Vukovich of Poland voted against it.

Mahoning County Coroner Dr. Nathan Belinky rules suicide and homicide in the deaths of Steven W. Hayes, 31, and his sons, Graeme, 4, and Adam, 18 months, whose bodies were found in a pickup truck at Lake State Park near Alliance. All died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

1976: Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the nation’s largest securities brokerage firm, agrees to recruit women and minority employees and pay $1.9 million in compensation to people rejected for jobs in a discriminatory fashion after Helen O’Bannon files suit in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh.

The Ohio Milk Sales store on McCartney Road in Coitsville is destroyed by an explosion and fire that the Mahoning County Sheriff’s office says was suspicious.

“President Ford is a heck of a man. He has restored confidence with an amazing performance and deserves a four-year term,” James Lynn of Cleveland, the president’s economic adviser, tells members of the Youngstown Downtown Kiwanis Club.

1966: The Newman Club of Youngstown University will be established in St. Joseph Church at Wick and Rayen avenues. Plans for establishing a parish there are being discussed.

An increased need for titanium for aerospace and other high technology industries is bringing a boom to at least one segment of Northeast Ohio’s industry. Reactive Metals Inc., with plants in Niles and Ashtabula, is one of the nation’s largest producers of the metal.

The basin for the $13.5 million Shenango Reservoir is being cleared of trees and brush.

1941: Youngstown steel plants are being asked to increase production, especially of plate steel, which is needed in the defense effort.

Ray Ward and Lucille Lewis have the lead roles in Austintown Fitch High School’s senior class play, “Don’t Take My Penny,”

At the movies downtown: The Strand is showing Charlie Chaplin’s new comedy, “The Great Dictator.” The Park features Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney in “Men of Boys Town.”