YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 16

Today is Friday, June 16, the 167th day of 2017. There are 198 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland. (She escaped almost a year later but ended up imprisoned again.)

1858: Accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln says the slavery issue has to be resolved, declaring, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

1903: Ford Motor Co. is incorporated.

1944: George Stinney, a 14-year-old black youth, is electrocuted by the state of South Carolina for the murders of two white girls, Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 7.

1967: The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival, a major event of the “Summer of Love,” opens in northern California.Among the featured acts are Jefferson Airplane, The Who, the Grateful Dead, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding and Ravi Shankar.

1987: A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four youths he said were going to rob him.

2015: Real-estate mogul Donald Trump launches his successful campaign to become president of the United States with a speech at Trump Tower in Manhattan.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992:Revisions in Western Reserve Transit Authority bus routes to accommodate greater demand for transportation to the suburbs and less to downtown Youngstown bring complaints from veteran downtown riders but praise from riders going to the Liberty Plaza or Southern Park Mall.

The Ohio Controlling Board approves $175,663 for an environmental study of abandoned industrial sites along the Mahoning River.

Hubbard hires Hersh Exterminating Service Inc. to monitor rat bait boxes in the Hubbard Estates area after residents say that boxes put in place in 1984 by another company have not been checked for months and that more than a dozen rats were killed by residents in the last year.

1977: Youngstown city workers lower a television camera into the shaft of an abandoned coal mine on the South Side and find that the hole is deeper than originally thought – 120 feet – and more than half-filled with water.

About 180 production workers, members of United Steel Workers Local 6529, strike the Taylor Winfield Corp. plant in Warren.

The Rev. John P. Ashton, pastor of St. Luke Catholic Church, is named the seventh Paul Harris Fellow of the Youngstown Rotary Club.

1967: The Youngstown Board of Control awards contracts for the purchase of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of real estate, cars and trucks for the Department of Public Works.

Grants totaling $343,000 in federal and local shares will provide 557 summer jobs for high-school and college students, says the Youngstown Area Community Action Council.

Repairs to a break in a 24-inch water main at the Webb Road pump station ease a water crisis in Austintown and North Jackson.

1942: Summer-school enrollment at Youngstown College hits a new high with 800 students. Engineering is the favorite course.

Scrap rubber collected in a campaign that will last till the end of the month will be stored on city property and kept under constant guard, says City Engineer Ralph O’Neill.

First Lt. Robert Grandmontagne of Youngstown pilots a four-engine Flying Fortress at Youngstown Municipal Airport and finds the airport satisfactory.