YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 4

Today is Sunday, June 4, the 155th day of 2017. There are 210 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1783: The Montgolfier brothers first publicly demonstrate their hot-air balloon, which does not carry any passengers, over Annonay, France.

1812: The U.S. House of Representatives approves, 79-49, a declaration of war against Britain.

1917: The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded.

1937: One of the first, if not the first, shopping carts is introduced by supermarket chain owner Sylvan Goldman in Oklahoma City.

1939: The German ocean liner MS St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, is turned away from the Florida coast by U.S. officials.

1940: During World War II, the Allied military evacuation of some 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France, ends. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declares: “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

1942: The World War II Battle of Midway begins, resulting in a decisive American victory against Japan and marking the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

1947: The Christmastime tale “Miracle on 34th Street,” a 20th Century Fox production, opens in New York.

1977: The VHS home videocassette recorder is introduced to North America by JVC during a press conference in Chicago.

2012: With President Barack Obama standing off to the side, former President Bill Clinton warns during a fundraiser in New York that a Mitt Romney presidency would be “calamitous” for the nation and the world.

2016: A day after the death of Muhammad Ali, President Barack Obama says the boxing legend “shook up the world and the world is better for it,” and that Ali stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela in fighting for what was right.

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1992: An Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction administrator says that the state will take legal action if Youngstown officials don’t proceed with improving jail conditions.

Niles Councilman Lewis J. Cickelli says the city of Niles should be seeking bids on an $11 million health insurance contract for city service workers, but Mayor Ralph Infante says the administration is informally seeking quotes because a formal bidding process is too time consuming.

Phar-Mor and Finast say they will still have stores in The Shops at Boardman Park, even if Boardman voters continue to reject a local option that would allow the sale of liquor in the precinct.

1977: Lake Newport Developers Inc. announces the purchase of a 32-acre tract for the construction of luxury condominiums in the Forest Glen area near Mill Creek Park’s Lake Newport. The buildings will front on Devonshire Drive.

Paced by fuel-stingy imports, new car sales in May hit their highest levels in nearly four years. It is the third straight month that U.S. consumers bought a record number of small foreign cars.

Youngstown television stations 21, 27, 33 and 45 plan to give live coverage to a community/university open house at Youngstown State University that is part of the “Rally ’Round Youngstown” celebration hosted by Geraldo Rivera on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

1967: Ashtabula County Common Pleas Judge Thomas D. Lambros, 37, is nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson as a judge for the U.S. District Court at Cleveland.

Sandra Sarosy of Campbell, a Youngstown University student who was second runner-up in the Miss Ohio contest, wins the title of Miss Warren for the second consecutive year.

After 55 years, the Poland Seminary High Class of 1912 has a reunion with all four women and two men who were in the class attending. Also attending were two of their teachers, Mrs. Allen Frederick and Mrs. Laverne Delin.

Five Mahoning County lawyers, all still active, will be honored for 50 years in the profession by the Bar Association: Robert Crumpler, John Danks, Donald Lynn, Ralph Jiller and Larry Rapport.

1942: Jared Paul Huxley, former county prosecuting attorney, dies in North Side Hospital of a pulmonary embolism.

New officers of the local Girl Scout Council are installed: Mrs. I.A. Colby, Mrs. Seth Wolff, Mrs. Ira D. Talbott, Mrs. Robert A. Manchester and Mrs. Walter E. Meub.

Word is received that two Youngstowners, John Cook and Ralph Lemke, are stationed in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, target of two recent attacks by Japanese bombers.

The millions of dollars that Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Republic Steel poured into new strip mills in the last decade to protect Youngstown’s position in the steel industry are proving invaluable to the U.S. war effort.