YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 9

Today is Sunday, June 9, the 160th day of 2019. There are 205 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

A.D. 68: Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, ending a 13-year reign.

1588: Construction begins on the present-day Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy, with the laying of the first stone. (The structure was completed in 1591.)

1732: James Oglethorpe receives a charter from Britain’s King George II to found the colony of Georgia.

1940: During World War II, Norway decides to surrender to the Nazis, effective at midnight.

1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943, which reintroduced federal income-tax withholding from paychecks.

1953: Ninety-three people die when a tornado strikes Worcester, Mass.

1954: During the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch berates Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., asking: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

1969: The Senate confirms Warren Burger to be the new chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren.

1972: Heavy rains trigger record flooding in the Black Hills of South Dakota; the resulting disaster leaves at least 238 people dead and $164 million in damage.

1973: Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.

1978: Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints strike down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood.

1986: The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Challenger disaster, criticizing NASA and rocket-builder Morton Thiokol for management problems leading to the explosion that claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

2004: The body of Ronald Reagan arrives in Washington to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda before the 40th president’s funeral.

2009: A bankruptcy judge approves Chrysler’s plan to terminate 789 of its dealer franchises, the same day the Supreme Court cleared the way for Chrysler LLC’s sale to Fiat.

2014 : In a wide-ranging review, the Veterans Affairs Department says more than 57,000 U.S. military veterans have been waiting 90 days or more for their first VA medical appointments, and an additional 64,000 appeared to have fallen through the cracks, never getting appointments after enrolling and requesting them.

Five American special operations troops are killed by a U.S. airstrike called in to help them after they were ambushed by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.

2018: After leaving the annual G-7 summit in Canada, President Donald Trump pulls out of a joint statement with other summit leaders, citing what he called “false statements” by the host, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau warned that he wouldn’t hesitate to retaliate against new U.S. tariffs.

Justify, ridden by Mike Smith and trained by Bob Baffert, wins the Belmont Stakes to become horse racing’s 13th Triple Crown winner and the second in the past four years.

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1994: Dr. James Cicarelli, Youngstown State University’s business college dean, will resign in August, leaving only one dean who was at YSU before President Leslie Cochran took office two years ago.

The Rev. Billy Graham, 75, tells 32,000 people attending his crusade at Cleveland Stadium to prepare for the inevitability of Judgment Day.

Members of the Mah-oning Democrats for Change roar their approval as Atty. Michael Morley takes over as chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party.

1979: U.S. steel mills and executive offices, long considered the exclusive domain of white men, are beginning to open the doors more widely to women and minorities, writes George R. Reiss, Vindicator business editor.

George Markota says a gas well drilled in 1977 on his farm at state Route 45 and Berlin Station Road and abandoned by the drilling company in 1978 leaks, producing a constant hiss and more aggravation than gas.

Debbie Librandi, 11-year-old daughter of George and Pat Librandi of New Castle, Pa., receives a new puppy, Benji, from a five-puppy litter of Benji of motion picture and television fame. A California pen-pal of Debbie arranged the “adoption.”

1969: Vice President Spiro Agnew urges Ohio State graduates to treat the wrongs of America as a challenge, not an indictment. Agnew and comedian Bob Hope receive honorary doctorates at the commencement of 4,200 in Ohio Stadium.

As many as 4,000 temporary workers – high school and college students and teachers – are marching into district employment offices to alleviate one of the area’s tightest labor shortages in recent years.

Construction of the $75 million stamping plant at General Motors Lords-town is employing 1,500, and basic steel plants are running at 80 percent.

Funeral services will be held at the residence of Mrs. Mary Waddell, 91, of Brown Street, Niles, a member of a family long prominent in the city and widow of Jacob Waddell.

1944: Blood donors give 180 pints to the Mahoning County blood bank, and some are turned away because there weren’t enough bottles.

Eight-year-old O.B. Atkins, East Woodland Avenue, and two companions watched tame pigeons strutting on the girders under the Market Street Bridge. While crawling out to capture the birds for pets, the Atkins boy slipped and fell 40 feet to the ground. He is in fair condition with a fractured skull and broken arm.

Youngstown wants news not only of the fighting in general, but especially of men from the Youngstown district taking part in the D-Day invasion. Such news received by families or friends is welcome at The Vindicator.