Today is Sunday, June 8, the 160th day of 2008. There are 206 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, June 8, the 160th day of 2008. There are 206 days left in the year. On this date in A.D. 632, the prophet Muhammad dies in Medina.

In 1845, Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, dies in Nashville, Tenn. In 1861, Tennessee secedes from the Union. In 1864, Abraham Lincoln is nominated for another term as president during the National Union (Republican) Party’s convention in Baltimore. In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt offers to act as a mediator in the Russo-Japanese War. In 1915, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns in a disagreement with President Wilson over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania. In 1948, the “Texaco Star Theater” makes its debut on NBC-TV with Milton Berle guest-hosting the first program. (Berle is later named the show’s permanent host.) In 1953, the Supreme Court, in District of Columbia v. Thompson Co., rules that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks. In 1966, a merger is announced between the National and American Football Leagues, to take effect in 1970. In 1967, 34 U.S. servicemen are killed when Israeli forces raid the Liberty, a Navy ship stationed in the Mediterranean. (Israel calls the attack a tragic mistake.) In 1978, a jury in Clark County, Nev., rules the so-called “Mormon will,” purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, is a forgery.

June 8, 1983: Youngstown City Council President Patrick J. Ungaro wins the Democratic nomination for mayor by 88 votes in a five-person race that was one of the tightest primaries in the city’s history.

The Citizen-Labor Energy Coalition releases a study saying that the nation’s 24 largest natural gas producers have been collecting excessive profits since the government began lifting price ceilings in 1978.

The General Electric Co. announces that it will close the Youngstown Lamp Plant on Hughes Street by 1985. All but 100 of the 500 employees will be eligible for retirement or transfer.

The first use of American Information Systems Inc.’s electronic vote-counting system comes off with barely a hitch in Mahoning County. An optical scanner counted the ballots in 233 precincts where primary races were held and tabulation was completed by 10 p.m.

June 8, 1968: Boardman Township and Mahoning County officials dedicate a new 500,000 gallon water storage tank on Afton Avenue that is part of a $843,000 water system that includes 10.4 miles of water mains.

Robert Lewis, 66, of 613 Covington St. dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital of gunshot wounds suffered in a shootout with police at a North Side home.

A 10-inch tooth from a prehistoric animal is uncovered in Conneaut Marsh north of Sheakleyville, Pa., while piles are being driven for a bridge over the swamp.

Eleven parishes from six states will participate in the first midwest regional Maronite Youth Organization concave at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon in North Jackson.

June 8, 1958: The on-going recession is taking at least $15 million a month out of the Youngstown district’s payrolls and business channels. That is being partially offset by about $3.5 million in Ohio and Pennsylvania unemployment compensation payments.

Dr. Andrew A. Detesco, president of the Mahoning County Medical Society, recommends that a committee of physicians study whether patients and doctors are abusing Blue Cross and other hospitalization plans through overuse and inefficiency.

Youngstown Municipal Judge Frank R. Franko, suspended indefinitely from law practice by the Ohio Supreme Court for unethical conduct, asks for a rehearing before the state’s top court.

The Youngstown Transit Co. announces a 6 percent reduction in service, which will affect mainly school and mill trippers. M.M. Malmer says the cutbacks are a response to school being out and reduced steel mill operations.

June 8, 1933: Rising steel mill operations bring wage increases for Niles brickyard workers making firebrick and for Youngstown Sheet Tube Co.’s coal miners in Pennsylvania. About 175 men are employed at Niles Firebrick Co. which resumed operations only recently after a long idleness.

Thomas E. Edmondson, state director of industrial relations, says the Moyer Manufacturing Co. in Youngstown has violated state law by working girls overtime.

The mercury hits 96 at noon, one degree short of the record for a June day, which was set on June 8, 1914.

Youngstown street car operators and bus drivers unions sign an agreement for a reduction in their wage rate from 55 cents an hour to 52 cents.