YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 14

Today is Wednesday, June 14, the 165th day of 2017. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day.

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On this date in:

1777: The Second Continental Congress approves the design of the original American flag, declaring: “Resolved, that the Flag of the thirteen United States shall be 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be 13 stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation.”

1801: Former American Revolutionary War general and notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold dies in London.

1922: Warren G. Harding of Ohio becomes the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcasts his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry.

1940: German troops enter Paris during World War II; the same day, the Nazis begin transporting prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.

1943: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that children in public schools could not be forced to salute the U.S. flag.

1954: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a measure adding the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.

1972: The Environmental Protection Agency orders a ban on domestic use of the pesticide DDT, to take effect at year’s end.

2012: In dueling speeches in the battleground state of Ohio, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, speaking in Cincinnati, describes the Obama administration as the very “enemy” of people who create jobs; President Barack Obama, going second in Cleveland, asks the nation to buy into his vision for four more years.

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1992: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Poland, and Joseph Leonard, a Milton Township trustee, are promoting a regional water district similar to the Miami Valley Conservancy District that would consolidate as many as six watersheds in Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana, Stark and Portage counties.

The Mahoning Valley’s proposals for a massive Pentagon accounting center stands out because they contain a funding mechanism that does not rely on state financial help, officials say.

More than 300 athletes compete in 12 events in the Mahoning Valley Special Olympics at Fitch Stadium in Austintown.

1977: The floor of a garage at the home of Joyce Tanner, 523 Hylda Ave., Youngstown, collapses into an abandoned mine shaft that is about 100 feet deep. Her son, Arthur, 12, and a friend were preparing to play basketball in the driveway when they opened the garage door and saw the floor begin to sink.

The Ohio Water Service negotiates a deal to drill at least three exploratory natural gas wells at its Yankee Lake properties.

Archie Nelson, accused of robbing a bank and holding an East Side woman and three children hostage, attempts a break out at the Mahoning County jail. He is subdued after jumping Sgt. Joseph Hudak, who was delivering food trays.

1967: The Ohio Water Pollution Control Board gives Youngstown and other communities on the banks of the Mahoning River until 1972 to clean up river pollution.

The Mahoning County health board orders residents of Austintown, Boardman and Canfield to limit lawn sprinkling, car washing and filling swimming pools during the continuing water shortage.

Boardman Township Park will sponsor a summer day camp for children 6 to 12 years old. Warren Webster is director.

1942: Relatives of William Holmes McGuffey, early American educator and author of the famous readers, and the Youngstown McGuffey Society will meet at Pioneer Pavilion.