YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 15

Today is Thursday, June 15, the 166th day of 2017. There are 199 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1215: England’s King John puts his seal to Magna Carta at Runnymede.

1775: The Second Continental Congress votes unanimously to appoint George Washington head of the Continental Army.

1836: Arkansas becomes the 25th state.

1904: More than 1,000 people die when fire erupts aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York’s East River.

1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act making the National Guard part of the U.S. Army in the event of war or national emergency.

1992: During a visit to an elementary school in Trenton, N.J., Vice President Dan Quayle, relying on a faulty flashcard, erroneously instructs sixth-grader William Figueroa to write “potato” as “potatoe” on a blackboard during a spelling quiz.

2012: President Barack Obama eases enforcement of immigration laws as he announces a new policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

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1992: A projected $7.2 million deficit within a year has Youngstown school officials contemplating cutbacks, closings and possibly seeking passage of a new levy.

A Champion man described by local police as a “strange duck” is accused of talking to undercover agents about blowing up a building in South Carolina that contained drug evidence against him.

United Auto Workers President Owen Beiber threatens the Big Three U.S. automakers with a strike in 1993 to fight what he says are attempts to break the union.

1977: An exceptionally dry May, with only 30 percent of the normal rainfall, drops the water levels of area reservoirs 6 to 18 inches below normal for this time of year.

The Liberty Board of Education approves a resolution to sell $4.8 million in capital-improvement bonds to finance improvements suggested in a report prepared by J. David Rossi, a school planner from Chautauqua, N.Y.

After a year that saw community divisiveness, financial crises and the defeat of a school levy, Dr. Tom Powers announces his resignation as superintendent of the Howland Local School District.

1967: Several Youngstown elementary school children go to Columbus to lobby the state Legislature for a requirement that foreign languages be taught in the early grades. Anne Melnick, 7, sings “Happy Birthday” in French to members of the Ohio Education Committee.

Youngstown’s sick-leave ordinance covering city employees is repealed by City Council and a stricter one proposed by Mayor Anthony Flask is adopted unanimously.

Canfield Ruritan members will provide two flowerbeds in the Village Square as a community project.

A Trumbull County Joint Vocational School would be projected to have an enrollment of 2,000 students in the 11th and 12th grades from 20 participating school districts.

1942: Few Youngstowners have purchased new federal auto stamps costing $5, which must be posted on every car, truck and motorcycle before July 1.

Wallace E. Watson, vice president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., is named general chairman of the U.S. Office of Price Administration’s steel products advisory committee.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Price Jr. celebrate the ninth birthday of daughter June Rae with a birthday and theater party.