YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 6

Today is Tuesday, June 6, the 157th day of 2017. There are 208 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1523: Gustav Vasa becomes Sweden’s new king, Gustav I.

1799: American politician and orator Patrick Henry dies at Red Hill Plantation in Virginia.

1809: Sweden adopts a new constitution.

1844: The Young Men’s Christian Association is founded in London.

1925: Walter Percy Chrysler founds Chrysler Corp.

1933: The first drive-in movie theater opens in Camden County, N.J. (The movie shown is “Wives Beware,” starring Adolphe Menjou.)

1944: During World War II, Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, France, on “D-Day” as they begin the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe.

1966: Black activist James Meredith is shot and wounded as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration.

1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy dies at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan.

1994: President Bill Clinton joins leaders from America’s World War II allies to mark the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy.

2007: Bob Barker tapes his last episode as host of CBS’ “The Price Is Right.”

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1992: A high-ranking official with the Ohio Department of Education and a former head of Cleveland Public Schools are among 17 applicants for superintendent of the Youngstown City School District.

A move is afoot in Ohio to delay the mandatory start of kindergarten until children are at least 51/2 years old. It has the support of a growing corps of educators and at least one state representative.

The Rev. J.L. King, pastor of Phillips Memorial Baptist Church, is celebrating his 50th year in the ministry and 33rd year as pastor of the church.

1977: Several thousand rain-soaked adults and ice-cream-licking children wander the campus of Youngstown State University during an open house that is part of the Rally ’Round Youngstown celebration.

A plaque is presented to U.S. Rep. Charles Carney at YSU’s Maag Library, where the government documents section is renamed for Carney.

Don R. Gosney, 50, former Columbiana County Democratic Party chairman, is transported to the Ohio State Penitentiary to begin serving a one- to five-year term for grand theft.

1967: Maj. William S. Hall, operations officer for the Air Force Reserve’s 910th Troop Carrier Squadron at Youngstown Municipal Airport, is injured in a one-car crash in Texas that killed the driver, Astronaut Edward G. Givens Jr., also an Air Force major.

Albert Davies, superintendent of Mill Creek Park for more than 30 years, is retiring and will be succeeded by Charles Wedekind, assistant superintendent the past seven years.

The Youngstown Board of Education accepts with regret the resignation of Mrs. Robert Marshall, a member for almost 20 years.

1942: Municipal Judge Robert B. Nevin tells the Council for Civic Action that “the police could end the ‘bug’ overnight by stepping out and arresting the men really responsible for it.”

A barber who is a former machine operator and a clerk who once was a mill rigger are referred to defense plants in Youngstown as Uncle Sam’s program to put men in war-essential jobs gets underway.

Mildred Woodrow of Wirt Street, a June graduate of The Rayen School, wins a $1,100 scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design.