YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, June 6, the 158th day of 2016. There are 208 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1816: A snowstorm hits the northeastern U.S., heralding what would become known as the “Year Without a Summer.”

1844: The Young Men’s Christian Association is founded in London.

1944: During World War II, Operation Overlord, aimed at liberating German-occupied western Europe, commences as Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, France, on “D-Day.”

1955: The U.S. Post Office introduces regular certified mail service.

1966: Black activist James Meredith is shot and wounded as he walks along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.

1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy dies at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.

1978: California voters overwhelmingly approve Proposition 13, a primary ballot initiative calling for major cuts in property taxes.

1994: President Bill Clinton joins leaders from America’s World War II allies to mark the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy.

2011: After days of denials, New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner confesses that he had tweeted a photo of his bulging underpants to a woman and admits to “inappropriate” exchanges with six women before and after getting married; Weiner apologizes for lying but says he would not resign (which he ended up doing).

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1991: Paul D’Eramo, curriculum director of West Branch Schools, is named superintendent of the district, replacing Nancy Pinney, who resigned to take a job with the Mahoning County Board of Education.

The Ohio Department of Human Services warns the Mahoning County Child Support Enforcement Agency that unless it does a better job of collecting and distributing child-support payments, the agency faces the loss of some state funding. The state provides $2 million of the agency’s $2.9 million budget.

Warren Harding High School Principal Rozen Lymor credits the senior classes of Harding and Warren Western Reserve high schools with the successful consolidation of the two schools. After Western Reserve was closed, the graduating seniors took the initiative in making consolidation work.

1976: The automobile industry’s projected switch to smaller and lighter cars could cut deeply into the Youngstown district’s steel sales and jobs, writes George R. Reiss, Vindicator business editor.

A dedication ceremony for the 100-year-old, 1,160-pound replica of the Liberty Bell in Sharon, Pa., will take place in Sharon’s new Bicentennial Park.

Dr. Larry H. Capots, a 1966 Chaney High graduate, joins the physics department at Georgetown University, where he earned his doctorate. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Youngstown State University, which he attended on a Westside Merchants and Civic Association scholarship.

1966: Thirty-three youths are arrested after breaking into the Craig Beach Amusement Park and going on a rampage. The same group is suspected in the breaking of 21 windows at Woodrow Wilson High School in Youngstown.

Salem fundraisers reach the halfway mark in their drive for $6,000 that will be used to build a memorial on the green to World War II and Korean War veterans.

1941: Alexander E. Kuhn of Youngstown is one of 20 outstanding machinists honored at the Ford Naval Training Center in Michigan. More than 500 competed for the honor.

Dorothy Fuldheim, noted lecturer and traveler, tells Niles McKinley High School’s graduating class that they will need courage, character and vision as the world faces war and chaos.