YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, June 18, the 170th day of 2016. There are 196 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1778: American forces enter Philadelphia as the British withdraw during the Revolutionary War.

1815: Napoleon Bonaparte meets his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeat the French in Belgium.

1940: During World War II, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urges his countrymen to conduct themselves in a manner that will prompt future generations to say, “This was their finest hour.”

1983: Astronaut Sally K. Ride becomes America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues blast off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day mission.

2006: Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is elected the first female presiding bishop for the Episcopal Church, the U.S. arm of the global Anglican Communion.

2011: President Hamid Karzai acknowledges that the U.S. and Afghan governments have had talks with Taliban emissaries in a bid to end the nation’s nearly 10-year war.

2015: In dueling decisions about free speech, the Supreme Court upholds Texas’ refusal to issue a license plate bearing the Confederate battle flag and strikes down an Arizona town’s restrictions on temporary signs put up by a small church.

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1991: An infusion of $400,000 in tax revenue allows Columbiana County to make its biweekly payroll of $110,000, but County Auditor Patricia Hadley predicts that the cash-strapped county will have to borrow money before the summer is over.

The Springfield Local Board of Education approves a pay-to-participate program for the 1991-92 school year, which it is estimated will produce income of $40,000 a year.

Ohio Secretary of State Robert Taft rules that the city of Youngstown can put an issue on the ballot seeking a 0.25 percent increase in the city’s 2 percent income tax, but it cannot put an issue asking voters to approve either an income-tax hike or a sanitation fee.

1976: Orval Waldron, deputy director of the Trumbull County Board of Elections, is elected chairman of the Trumbull County Republican Party, succeeding Atty. E.G. Ted Johnson, who had been chairman for 10 years.

A new $25 million reclamation facility that will convert specialty-steelmaking waste products into commercially useful metals will be constructed at the USS Industrial Park in Ellwood City, Pa. It will employ up to 100 people.

Democrats elect Mahoning County Auditor Stephen R. Olenick chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party, and William Wade is elected chairman of the Republican Party.

1966: Frank DeMain Jr. scores the top grade on the test for appointment to the Youngstown Police Department with a score of 115.

A 17-year-old South Side youth is beaten with chains by a gang of youths who attacked him as he left a record hop at Idora Park. Two youths who had argued with him earlier at the dance were arrested.

The Ohio Board of Regents keeps $1.8 million available for possible use in building a Kent State branch campus in Warren.

1941: Ohio Bell is installing huge diesel-powered generators deep under its buildings in Cleveland, Akron and Youngstown to supply power in the event of bombing attacks on the U.S.

Salem voters will be asked to approve a 1-mill levy that will provide funding for storm and sanitary-sewer construction.

A strike by 500 workers at National Pants Co. in New Castle, Pa., ends.