YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 10

Today is Saturday, June 10, the 161st day of 2017. There are 204 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1692: The first execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts takes place as Bridget Bishop is hanged.

1892: The Republican National Convention in Minneapolis nominates President Benjamin Harrison for re-election and Whitelaw Reid for vice president. (Harrison lost the election to former President Grover Cleveland.)

1922: Singer-actress Judy Garland is born Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn.

1935: Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.

1944: German forces massacre 642 residents of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane.

1967: War in the Mideast ends as Israel and Syria accept a United Nations-mediated cease-fire; during the six days of conflict with Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq, Israeli forces captured the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.

1982: Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi fantasy “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” has its world premiere in Los Angeles.

2012: Parts of northern Colorado and southern New Mexico battle wildfires spreading rapidly through mountainous forest land, forcing hundreds of evacuations.

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1992: Despite a decrease in water consumption, the drought has left the Meander Reservoir at 67 percent of its capacity, far below the 80 percent that is normal at the beginning of June.

The Ohio Department of Transportation says construction will begin in 1996 on the $2.7 million interchange at state Route 11 and King-Graves Road.

1977: The Eastgate Development and Transportation Agency is seeking state designation as the agent to develop a federally managed regional solid-waste management plan.

Youngstown Diocesan officials will follow some 50 other dioceses across the nation by establishing a self-insurance program for its church, school and nursing-home buildings. Bishop James W. Malone says the move is expected to save the diocese nearly $400,000.

1967: The Rabbinical Council of Youngs-town issues a proclamation saying, “It is with a sense of heartbreak and a soul-searching sorrow that we are witness to the tragedy of violence and war that has come to the Middle East for the third time in two decades.”

Football will be played in six Youngstown public high schools and five junior highs with coaches working without additional pay.

Some $25,000 has been raised toward a goal of $125,000 for the Youngstown Rescue Mission’s facility for the care and treatment of alcoholics.

1942: Atty. J. Russell McKay is elected president of the YMCA to succeed Judge James E. Bennett, who has served 10 years. Walter Meub is elected treasurer to succeed Philip Schall, who held the post for 27 years.

Girard City Council passes a resolution seeking better bus service so that city residents can go to work in defense plants.

The 38-member Navy Band, youngsters between 8 and 12, will march down Federal Street and give a concert in front of McKelvey’s, where the miniature destroyer U.S.S. Youngstown is stationed.