YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 10

Today is Monday, June 10, the 161st day of 2019. There are 204 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1610: Englishman Lord De La Warr arrives at the Jamestown settlement to take charge of the Virginia Colony.

1692: The first execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts takes place as Bridget Bishop is hanged.

1935: Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.

1942: During World War II, German forces massacre 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.

1944: German forces massacre 642 residents of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane.

1967: Six days of war in the Middle East involving Israel, Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq end as Israel and Syria accept a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.

1978: Affirmed wins the 110th Belmont Stakes to claim horse racing’s 11th Triple Crown.

2009: James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist, opens fire in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., killing a security guard.

2014: In a stunning assault that exposes Iraq’s eroding central authority, al-Qaida-inspired militants overrun much of Mosul.

2018: President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrive in Singapore, two days ahead of their summit.

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1994: Trumbull County commissioners say they want additional proof of the economic value of the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport before they commit more tax dollars to it.

Youngstown Councilman Joseph Naples predicts that the city’s food-for-guns program will be so successful that the food vouchers will disappear faster than a speeding bullet.

Mahoning County Auditor George Tablack says 23 checks bearing his forged signature have been cashed at businesses in Mahoning and Trumbull counties totaling $7,000.

1979: Despite rising diesel fuel prices, the Western Reserve Transit Authority will maintain its fares at 50 cents for rides during peak periods and 25 cents in off-hours, says director Joseph Albanese.

The Ohio General Assembly is considering legislation that would restrict local governments from collecting increased taxes based on property valuation increases that come through countywide reappraisals.

Named to the All-City Series baseball team: Mark Billy, Joe Bettura, Dave Garcar, Chris Cole, Joe Belcik, Rocky DePizzo, Mike Sherman, George Bevy, Brian Kubala, Joe Oleksak and Jim Moore.

1969: The Penn Central Railroad will spend $2 million to expand its Goodman Yards at Lords-town to service General Motors’ expanding auto-truck complex.

Postmaster Winston M. Blount approves construction of a new post office in Canfield.

Youngstown Patrolman Sabatino Farinelli has been certified as a law-enforcement firearms instructor in the use of all major firearms for police work.

1944: Valedictorians of the 135-member graduating class of Chaney High School are Jerry Antalik and Violet Shadley. Margaret Sikora is salutatorian.

Seaman Bernard Gorvet of Youngstown, who has had a twin and another brother killed in the war, was passing through Youngstown on a train that would not stop, so he wrote a letter to his mother and dropped it out the window. It was found and mailed to his mother on Boston Avenue.

A community center where young people can find entertainment and recreation is to be established in the Elm Street School in Struthers.