Today is Saturday, June 17, the 168th day of 2017. There are 197 days left in the year.

Today is Saturday, June 17, the 168th day of 2017. There are 197 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1775: The Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill results in a costly victory for the British, who suffer heavy losses.

1885: The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor aboard the French ship Isere.

1967: China successfully tests its first thermonuclear (hydrogen) bomb.

1972: President Richard Nixon’s eventual downfall begins with the arrest of five burglars inside Democratic national headquarters in Washington’s Watergate complex.

1994: After leading police on a slow-speed chase on Southern California freeways, O.J. Simpson is arrested and charged with murder in the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

2015: Nine people are shot to death in a historic African-American church in Charleston, S.C. Suspect Dylann Roof is arrested the following morning. (Roof has since been convicted of federal hate crimes and sentenced to death. He later pleaded guilty to state murder charges and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: John S. Gerish tells a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court jury that he never would have killed his mother and another woman if he had been aware of what he was doing when he pulled the trigger eight times.

Columbiana Village accepts the annexation of the Century 3 Truck Plaza to the village from Fairfield Township.

Warren Municipal Court Judge Samuel Petkovich dismisses 22 charges of keeping unlicensed dogs and having an unlicensed kennel against Atty. John Leopardi who said he only gathered stray dogs to keep them from being put to death in dog pounds.

1977: A citizens committee and Niles city officials set priorities for development of a $1 million park on the 97-acre Waddell-Clingan estate, which the heirs of that family have said they will donate to the city for use as a park. The park will be named Pleasant Hills, the translation of Brynhyfryd, the Welsh name of the estate.

The new Youngstown Post Office will be renamed the Michael J. Kirwan Post Office, and U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney has invited President Jimmy Carter to the July 1 dedication.

The Mahoning County Courthouse has been designated a national historical preservation site by the National Register of Historic Places. The late Charles Owsley was the principal architect for the $1 million structure that was begun in 1907 and finished in 1910.

1967: Marine 2nd Lt. Michael Roth of Salem, a graduate of the Naval Academy is awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

The Reserve Officers Training Corps at Youngstown University receives a satisfactory rating from the U.S. First Army after an inspection of the YU facilities.

The Bochert-Wells Painting Co. is awarded a contract to repair and repaint the walls of three floors of the Mahoning County Courthouse on a low bid of $4,750.

1942: Youngstown Western Union and Total Telegraph boys go on strike, asking raises of 10 and 15 cents an hour.

The War Ration Board appeals to housewives to save and sell waste fats from home cooking as a war-conservation measure.

Despite efforts of hundreds of volunteer workers in Mahoning County, the rationing program still is in confusion, especially regarding canning sugar as the registration is three times as many as expected.