YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 11

Today is Sunday, June 11, the 162nd day of 2017. There are 203 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1509: England’s King Henry VIII marries his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

1779: Capt. James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovers the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it.

1919: Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner.

1937: Eight members of the Soviet Red Army High Command accused of disloyalty are put on trial, convicted and immediately executed as part of Josef Stalin’s Great Purge.

1942: The United States and the Soviet Union sign a lend-lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II.

1947: The government announces the end of sugar rationing for households and “institutional users” (e.g., restaurants and hotels) as of midnight.

1959: The Saunders-Roe Nautical 1, the first operational hovercraft, is publicly demonstrated off the southern coast of England.

1962: Three prisoners at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay stage an escape, leaving the island on a makeshift raft; they were never found or heard from again.

1977: A 20-day hostage drama in the Netherlands ends as Dutch marines storm a train and a school held by Moluccan extremists; six gunmen and two hostages on the train are killed.

Seattle Slew wins the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown.

1987: Margaret Thatcher becomes the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office as her Conservatives hold onto a reduced majority in Parliament.

2001: Timothy McVeigh, 33, is executed by injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of a federal office building that killed 168 people.

2007: Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, is arrested at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in a restroom sex sting. (Craig, who denied soliciting an undercover police officer, later pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and paid a fine.)

2012: Testimony begins in the trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, accused of sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years. (Sandusky was later convicted and sentenced to at least 30 years in prison.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: The Chevrolet Cavalier, manufactured exclusively at the General Motors Lordstown complex, dropped 24.1 percent in sales for the first five months of this year.

Warren Police Chief Thomas Hutson says the ladies room on the first floor of the city Municipal Building has been locked because it was being used by prostitutes and “we had ‘its’ that were coming in here, the ‘he-shes’ that come down.”

An 11-year-old Lake Milton boy turned his father in for growing and using marijuana after the father failed to heed his warning that it was wrong.

1977: Frank A. Nemec, the financial wizard credited as the architect of the merger of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Lykes Corp., resigns as president, CEO and director of Lykes Corp, citing “personal reasons” for taking early retirement at 62.

The Youngstown Board of Control throws out nearly $1.7 million in bids for the first stage of North Side Hospital’s expansion program because they were too high or didn’t meet Equal Employment Opportunity guidelines.

1967: Spencer Tracy, 67, the craggy-faced, two-time Academy Award winner, dies of a heart attack at his Hollywood home. Tracy’s estranged wife, Louise, is a 1916 graduate of New Castle, Pa., High School and a granddaughter of George E. Treadwell, founder of the New Castle News.

The Builders Association of Mahoning Valley offers a $2,500 reward in the dynamiting of an A.P. O’Horo garage. A wall was blown out, causing $5,000 damage.

Cheryl Jamison becomes the second Champion High School student in two years to win the Ohio Jaycees safe-driving Road-e-o competition and will compete in the national championship in August.

1942: Furloughed employees of the Youngstown Water Department are picketing City Hall carrying signs such as, “Why are we being laid off so that more water funds can be used to retire sanitary bonds?”

Walter Mitchell, city finance director and county Democratic chairman, is entitled to serve as a Democratic member of the board of elections, the 7th District Court of Appeals rules.

Wally Rehovo registers a par 36 to set the pace for the Republic Steel League golfers at the Poland Country Club. Lou Bobola and C. Surell were next with 37s.