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Today is Thursday, June 9, the 161st day of 2016. There are 205 days left in the year.

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A.D. 68: Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, ending a 13-year reign.

1870: Author Charles Dickens dies in Gad’s Hill Place, England.

1911: Carrie (sometimes spelled “Carry”) A. Nation, the hatchet-wielding temperance crusader, dies in Leavenworth, Kan., at age 64.

1934: The first Walt Disney animated cartoon featuring Donald Duck, “The Wise Little Hen,” is released.

1943: The federal government begins withholding income tax from paychecks.

1954: During the Senate-Army Hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch famously berates Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., asking McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

1973: Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.

1986: The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Challenger disaster, criticizing NASA and rocket-builder Morton Thiokol for management problems leading to the explosion that claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

2015: Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert pleads not guilty in Chicago to charges that he had violated banking rules and lied to the FBI about promising to pay $3.5 million in hush money to conceal misconduct from his days as a high school teacher. (Hastert later pleaded guilty to violating banking law in a case that revealed accusations of sexual abuse, and was sentenced to 15 months in prison.)

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1991: The Ohio State Highway Patrol Post in Southington reports confused or ailing elderly drivers have caused several recent high-profile crashes, including five that involved fatalities.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge R. Scott Krichbaum and Prosecutor James A. Philomena threaten to have Youngstown police officers who fail to appear for hearings arrested. A concealed-weapons case was dismissed against one man after none of three officers appeared to testify during a hearing, and an aggravated robbery charge was nearly dismissed, but the court managed to track down the four missing officers.

The new owners of the Holiday Inn-Metroplex in Liberty are spending $2 million on expansion of the convention center and renovation of the motel’s 153 rooms.

1976: Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter wins five of the six presidential delegates from the 19th Congressional District while Morris Udall wins one.

Paul Grimes defeats Mahoning County Sheriff Ray T. Davis in the Republican primary and will meet Democrat Michael Yarosh in the general election.

Susan Goodwin, winner of the Vindicator Spelling Bee and an eighth-grader at Poland Junior High School, meets President Gerald Ford when she and other spelling champions tour the White House.

1966: Vandals break into Frank Ohl Junior High School in Austintown, ransacking 14 rooms and flooding halls with water and liquid bleach.

Cable television is suggested to Youngstown City Council as a way for the city to raise money for employee wage increases. Councilman Corry Dama says the city passed up as much as $40,000 in annual revenue by rejected cable television in 1965.

The Newton Falls Board of Education considers construction of a new $500,000 elementary school on Quarry Street.

1941: Eddy Duchin brings his orchestra and review to the stage of the Palace in Youngstown for four shows.

The Mahoning Red Cross warns sun worshippers to take their time in acquiring a summer tan. Shortcuts will result only in a painful burn.

Hubbard voters will go to the polls for a special election to decide the fate of a 2-mill levy. The district’s teachers haven’t been paid in two months.