YEARS AGO

Years ago

Today is Wednesday, June 8, the 160th day of 2016. There are 206 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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A.D. 632: The prophet Muhammad dies in Medina.

1845: Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, dies in Nashville, Tenn.

1864: Abraham Lincoln is nominated for another term as president during the National Union (Republican) Party’s convention in Baltimore.

1953: The U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks.

1966: The strongest of a series of tornadoes strikes the Topeka, Kan., area, killing 17 people.

A merger is announced between the National and American football leagues, to take effect in 1970.

1967: Thirty-four U.S. servicemen are killed when Israel attacks the USS Liberty, a Navy intelligence-gathering ship in the Mediterranean.

1972: During the Vietnam War, an Associated Press photographer captures the haunting image of 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc as she ran naked and severely burned from the scene of a South Vietnamese napalm attack.

1982: President Ronald Reagan becomes the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: After four months of exhausting debate, Youngstown City Council approves a $6.50 per month garbage fee for city residents in four minutes. A dozen laid-off city firefighters and ambulance crew workers are immediately called back to work.

Using a procedural challenge to pork-barrel amendments that had been placed in a defense appropriations bill, U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant, D-17th, finally succeeds in getting his “Buy American” amendment added to the bill.

Pennsak Inc., which employs 52 in making plastic bags for the produce and advertising industries, has outgrown its quarters in Transfer, Pa., and wants to buy the 34,000-square-foot Chevron Building at 534 Vine St. in Sharon.

1976: Common Pleas Judge Clyde Osbourne orders the Youngstown Board of Education to rehire Sarah L. Lyle as a teacher in the School of Practical Nursing at Choffin Career Center after finding that the board did not meet the statutory requirement that she be notified by April 30 if her contract was not going to be renewed.

Jerome C. Hightower, a 1964 graduate of North High School and 1969 graduate of Youngstown State University, earns his doctor of medicine degree from the Ohio State University College of Medicine. He will begin a surgical residency at the Cleveland Clinic.

1966: The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce asks Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to reconsider plans to deactivate the 910th Troop Carrier Group at the Youngstown Air Force Reserve Base.

Bonnie Kay Weant, 11, of Warren is named “Miss Zip” by the postal service, part of a promotion aimed at increasing the use of ZIP codes on mail. She received the key to the city at Annapolis, Md.

1941: The Youngstown Area League of Women Voters organizes a program aimed at bringing home the important role women can play in winning the “battle of production.”

Ohio Edison Co. breaks ground for a $3.6 million addition to its Gorge Power Plant near Akron. The addition will add 40,000 kilowatts of power for the Akron-Youngstown area.

Buechner Hall on Bryson Street, home for female students at Youngstown College and for businesswomen, opens to the public.