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Today is Friday, June 10, the 162nd day of 2016. There are 204 days left in the year.

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1692: The first execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts takes place as Bridget Bishop is hanged.

1864: The Confederate Congress authorizes military service for men between age 17 and 70.

1921: President Warren G. Harding signs into law the Budget and Accounting Act, which creates the Bureau of the Budget and the General Accounting Office.

1935: Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.

1940: Italy declares war on France and Britain; Canada declares war on Italy.

1967: The Middle East War ends as Israel and Syria agree to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.

1971: President Richard M. Nixon lifts a 2-decades-old trade embargo on China.

2004: Singer-musician Ray Charles dies in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 73.

2006: Two Saudis and one Yemeni are found hanged at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, the first successful suicides at the base after dozens of attempts.

2011: In a stern rebuke, Defense Secretary Robert Gates warns in Brussels that the future of the historic NATO military alliance is at risk because of European penny-pinching and a distaste for front-line combat.

2015: President Barack Obama orders the deployment of up to 450 more American troops to Iraq in an effort to reverse major battlefield losses to the Islamic State.

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1991: In a move to reduce employment costs, the Packard Electric Division of General Motors in Warren is offering 1,300 eligible hourly workers 55 years or older a bonus of up to $12,500 if they retire by Nov. 1.

Howland High School is putting the finishing touches on its $400,000 library and media center.

The 26th annual Western Reserve Dalmatian Club competition is coming to Howland Township Park and is expected to draw dogs from Columbus, Cleveland and places in between.

1976: A landslide victory in Ohio and second-place finishes in California and New Jersey all but assure former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter the Democratic nomination for president on the first ballot of the Democratic National Convention.

Two gunmen kidnap George Bruss, an attendant at the Clark Oil Station on McGuffey Road, as he is walking to make a night deposit of $2,000 at the McGuffey Mall. They release him in the Mount Hope Cemetery in McGuffey Heights after beating him and taking the night-deposit bag.

Youngstown City Council approves seeking a bid on $1.1 million in repairs to the main runway at Youngstown Municipal Airport but only after several members point out that suburban communities that rely on the airport should be sharing in the cost of operation.

1966: Orlando Petrilla responds to an appeal by five Youngstown area GIs serving in Vietnam by mailing a shipment of pizzas to the soldiers. Dennis M. Sweet, William E. Reinhard, Ronald L. Zalesky, Wayne E. David and Dennis Zinda had sent along 100 Vietnamese piasters worth about 50 cents with their order.

Dr. Albert Pugsley, Youngstown University’s president-elect, makes a visit to the area and comments on the outstanding relationship that exists between the university and the community.

1941: About 450 students picket Stambaugh Grade School and chant, “We want Hoskinson” in protest over their principal, C.E. Hoskinson, not being rehired. Only about 200 students cross the picket line to attend class.

Youngstown vice officers open another assault on marble boards, arresting four people, including a man who won 35 cents playing one machine.

The Pennsylvania Utilities Commission is expected to approve a plan to replace street cars in New Castle with buses.