Today is Sunday, June 12, the 164th day of 2016. There are 202 days left in the year.

Today is Sunday, June 12, the 164th day of 2016. There are 202 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1776: Virginia’s colonial legislature adopts a Declaration of Rights.

1920: The Republican national convention, meeting in Chicago, nominates Warren G. Harding for president on the 10th ballot; Calvin Coolidge is nominated for vice president.

1924: President Calvin Coolidge is nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Republican national convention in Cleveland. (Coolidge had become president in 1923 upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding.)

1939: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated in Cooperstown, N.Y.

1942: Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, receives a diary for her 13th birthday, less than a month before she and her family go into hiding from the Nazis.

1956: The Flag of the United States Army is officially adopted under an executive order signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

1963: Civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, is shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Miss. (In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001.)

1965: The British government announces that The Beatles would each be made an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace later in the year.

1967: The Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, strikes down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.

1975: An Indian court finds Prime Minister Indira Gandhi guilty of electoral corruption and bars her from holding office for six years; Gandhi rejects calls for her to resign.

1987: President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, publicly challenges Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”

1991: Russians go to the polls to elect Boris N. Yeltsin president of their republic.

1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are slashed to death outside her Los Angeles home. (O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial, but is eventually held liable in a civil action.)

Boeing’s new 777 jetliner goes on its first test flight.

2006: Al-Qaida in Iraq names a successor to slain leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who was killed in a U.S.-Iraqi air strike in April 2010.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: A tearful Anthony J. Payiavilas resigns from the Warren Board of Education, citing increasing demands on his time by the family-owned company Automatic Vending Inc. of which he is a vice president.

The Youngstown Board of Education rejects hiring Leetonia superintendent Douglas Hiscox as assistant superintendent, then holds a second vote approving his hiring after Superintendent Emmanuel Catsoules threatens to retire in August.

The Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police joins opponents of a bill in the Ohio General Assembly that would strip cities of the power to regulate firearms.

1976: Victor Bugno, 17, of Youngstown’s East Side, drowns in Erskine Quarry near New Castle after drifting too far from shore while swimming with another boy and two girls.

Saying that secrecy could serve to cover up for corrupt police, prosecutors and judges, the Ohio Supreme Court rules that pretrial and trial proceedings in criminal court cases must be open to the press and public and the proceedings can be closed only as an extreme last resort when all other methods of guaranteeing a fair trial have been exhausted.

Dr. Leighton Ford preaches to 23,000 on the opening day of his 10-day “Youngstown Reachout” crusade at the Canfield Fairgrounds. Ford is an associate evangelist with Billy Graham.

1966: Dr. Dominic A. Bitonte, who comes from a family of dentists and health professionals, is the new president of the Corydon Palmer Dental Society.

Youngstown motorists will have a chance to drive a new Mercury with “wrist steering,” an experimental replacement of the conventional steering wheel, when a specially equipped car is brought to Kroehle Lincoln-Mercury.

Carl “Bull” Lawson of Niles, professional wrestler and a wrestling official for 35 years, is retiring from the ring. Lawson won most of his 400 matches and officiates at some of the nation’s most prominent wrestlers.

1941: An Ohio Department of Health engineer says the time has come for Warren to abandon the use of Mahoning River for its drinking water. It is no longer a healthy practice.

Mrs. Sarah J. Petersen, a board of education member and former teacher at the Rayen School, is honored by nearly 800 people attending the school’s 75 th anniversary celebration.

President Roosevelt tells House Speaker Sam Rayburn that he “has his eye on the Mahoning Valley” and knows of its need for reservoirs to assure continued industrial production.