YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 9

Today is Friday, June 9, the 160th day of 2017. There are 205 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

A.D. 68: Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, ending a 13-year reign.

1870: Author Charles Dickens dies in Gad’s Hill Place, England.

1934: The first Walt Disney animated cartoon featuring Donald Duck, “The Wise Little Hen,” is released.

1943: The federal government begins withholding income tax from paychecks.

1954: During the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings on Communism, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch berates Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., for publicly attacking a member of Welch’s law firm, Fred Fisher, asking McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

1973: Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.

1997: The final episode of “Married ... with Children” (“Chicago Shoe Exchange”) starring Ed O’Neill of Youngstown airs on Fox, ending the series’ 11-season run.

2007: President George W. Bush, denounced by anti-American protesters in Rome, defends his humanitarian record as he meets at the Vatican with Pope Benedict XVI, who expressed concern about “the worrisome situation in Iraq.”

2016: President Barack Obama endorses Hillary Clinton to succeed him and urges Democrats in a Web video to line up behind her, declaring: “Look, I know how hard this job can be. That’s why I know Hillary will be so good at it.”

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1992: General Motors, Ford and Chrysler sign an agreement to share technology in an effort to reduce tailpipe emissions.

Seven applicants being interviewed by the Youngstown Board of Education for superintendent are: Douglass T. Hiscox, Robert L. Jefferson, Robert L. Moore, Mark G. Stevens, Alfred D. Tutela, Shirli M. Vioni Billings and Weinfort C. Washington.

Margaret Stanko, a Youngstown East High School teacher, is honored in Washington, D.C., as one of six teachers nationally to receive Warner Cable Communications’ annual “Cable in the classroom” teacher recognition award.

1977: County Court Judge Julius Zlotnick fines two men and suspends their jail sentences after finding them guilty of presenting material harmful to juveniles by showing X-rated films at the West Side Drive-In in Austintown. Township police found juveniles in the drive-in and in the parking lot of the nearby Austintown Plaza.

Ohio State University increases fees for undergraduate students by $15 per quarter and by $20 for graduate students to help meet a 6.9 percent increase in the 1977-78 fiscal budget.

Lori Skarbinski, 14-year-old Vindicator grand champion from St. Luke School, falls in a tough sixth round of the national spelling bee on the word “filar.” It was a round punctuated by unfamiliar words such as “wordle” and “google.”

1967: The Youngstown Education Association recommends that the Board of Education turn down public school coaches’ offer to work for nothing in the fall to keep sports alive in the schools.

1942: A band program and movies will be presented at the special Navy recruiting unit, the miniature U.S.S. Youngstown, stationed in West Federal Street in front of McKelvey’s department store.

A meeting of the “10 Percent for Victory Club” is called by the U.S. Treasury Department at the Hotel Pick-Ohio to tell Youngstowners that the government needs 10 percent of their paychecks.

An official forecast of America’s food and clothing situation lists coffee, tea and cocoa as likely to be rationed.