YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 5

Today is Monday, June 5, the 156th day of 2017. There are 209 days left in the year.

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1794: Congress passes the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from taking part in any military action against a country that was at peace with the United States.

1933: The United States goes off the gold standard.

1950: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Henderson v. United States, strikes down racially segregated railroad dining cars.

1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary; gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was arrested.

2004: Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, dies in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.

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1992: After 30 years at the helm of the Trumbull County Democratic Party, Dr. William J. Timmins announces that he is stepping down and will support vice chairman Fred Alberini as his successor.

The Joseph Horne Co. store in the Southern Park Mall will close July 12. The lease for the store is expected to be transferred to Higbee’s.

The Youngstown Connection, a musical group of city school students, perform at a retirement dinner for retiring Superintendent Emanuel N. Catsoules.

1977: Warren Sculptor Csaba Kur says he believes his bust of Youngstown founder John Young is one of his best, surpassing even the sculpture he did of the composer Bartok for the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The bust is still in search of a home.

The steel import problem is growing more troublesome and top-ranking steel figures complain that the Carter administration’s apathy and its likely effect will kill off a few more thousand Youngstown steel jobs, writes Vindicator Business Editor George Reiss.

George E. Sutton, dean of the William Rayen School of Engineering at Youngstown State University, says he has seen a National Science Foundation report saying that jobs for engineers have been declining since 1970, but he’s seen no evidence of a decline in employment opportunities for YSU’s engineering graduates.

1967: A Boardman man, Ira Earl Albert, 64, dies after being struck by a rock thrown by one of several teenage boys from the Old Mill parking lot into the ravine below where Albert was walking.

Fire destroys the Century Building at East State Street in Salem, a storeroom for Poland Countryside Furniture, causing damage estimated at $200,000.

Dr. Eugene Klinko is appointed assistant professor of mathematics at Purdue University. The 1957 graduate of Campbell Memorial High School received his B.S., M.S. and doctorate at Ohio State University.

Marine Maj. Gen. Keith McCutcheon, an alumnus of East Liverpool High School, will deliver the commencement address at the school.

1942: Campbell Councilwoman Helen Matune tells fellow council members that the city is “wide open” to vice, with the numbers racket and other gambling schemes operating every day and houses of ill fame flourishing.

Youngstown joins 500 other American communities in observing Vengeance Day by swearing in a class of recruits in front of the courthouse at exactly six months to the hour and minute of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Mauro Scali of East High School is awarded first prize in the poster contest sponsored by the Office of Civilian Defense after judges viewed 250 posters.