YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 16

Today is Sunday, June 16, the 167th day of 2019. There are 198 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

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.”

1883: Baseball’s first “Ladies’ Day” takes place as the New York Gothams offer women free admission to a game against the Cleveland Spiders. (New York won, 5-2.)

1903: Ford Motor Co. is incorporated.

1911: IBM has its beginnings as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co., which is incorporated in New York State.

1932: President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis are renominated at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

1933: National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signature. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. also is founded as Roosevelt signs the Banking Act of 1933.

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

1963: The world’s first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova 26, is launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6; Tereshkova spends 71 hours in flight, circling the Earth 48 times before returning safely.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: A woman and three children are found dead in a secluded house in Pulaski Township, Pa. Dead are Bonnie Lou Dryfuse, 34; her two daughters, Heather, 4, and Jacqueline, 7; and a cousin, Stephanie Herko, 5.

Work begins on a $3 million two-story addition to the Dillard’s Department Store at the Southern Park Mall in Boardman. (The store closed in May 2019.)

A crew from ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America” tapes footage from the village green in Meso-potamia of a visit by the Warren-Trumbull County Library bookmobile.

1979: Ohio must welcome new sources of energy, including coal and nuclear power, if it is to enjoy industrial growth, William Saxbe tells Youngstown State University’s graduating class. Saxbe is a former U.S. attorney general and ambassador to India.

E. Rachel Kauffung, a 61-year-old widow, dies when fire roars through the front of her one-story home at 304 S. Edgehill Ave., Austintown.

The U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs will hold a hearing on the effects of inflation at Youngstown’s City Hall Annex.

1969: The daughter of a Warren bank executive, Denise Campbell, is killed and her date, Paul Hancharik, injured when their car was hit broadside by a steel-laden truck during a rain storm in Coraopolis.

Thomas Holcomb, 15, of Cuyahoga Falls, drowns while attempting to swim across Berlin Reservoir with two friends.

The skipper of the Lake Newport boat, Joseph Campati, spotted two boys desperately trying to retrieve a ball from the lake. While piloting a full load of passengers, Campati thought quickly and swung the boat around twice to make waves that forced the ball to shore and saved the day for the boys.

Plans of the E.W. Bliss Co. to expand its facilities on the east side of South Broadway Avenue will be disclosed at a public hearing in Salem City Hall.

1944: Five women welders are injured, one seriously, in an explosion at the MacKenzie Muffler Inc. plant on North Meridian Road.

The Mahoning County Board of Health is considering declaring a rabies epidemic, which would give it access to more county funding.

Blaine Brewer, twice confessed Youngstown bookmaker, is sentenced to 30 days in jail by Special Judge Adrian Newcomb, who said Brewer violated terms of his earlier suspended sentence.