Today is Monday, June 9, the 161st day of 2008. There are 205 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, June 9, the 161st day of 2008. There are 205 days left in the year. On this date in A.D. 68, the Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide.

In 1940, during World War II, Norway decides to surrender to the Nazis, effective at midnight. In 1953, 94 people die when a tornado strikes Worcester, Mass. In 1954, during the Senate-Army Hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch berates Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, asking: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” In 1969, the U.S. Senate confirms Warren Burger to be the new chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren. In 1973, Secretariat becomes horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning the Belmont Stakes. In 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. In 1985, American educator Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon; he is released in November 1991 along with fellow hostage Terry Waite. In 1986, the Rogers Commission releasesits 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.

June 9, 1983: McDonald Steel Corp. is starting up its moth-balled eight-inch bar mill at McDonald, indicating something of a rebound in the Mahoning Valley economy.

Union and management officials say workers at the GF Business Equipment Inc. plant in Youngstown will determine the fate of their jobs when they vote on a new contract that calls for wage concessions.

June 9, 1968: The hard-pressed basic steel industry is stepping up expansion and modernization, with a major impact expected on the Youngstown district and its aging steel plants and its 100,000 jobs.

Richard A. Foster, who has spent 21 years gathering weather information for airplane flights and residents at the Youngstown Municipal Airport, is promoted to weather observer in charge of the Greenville-Spartansburg, S.C., Weather Bureau.

June 9, 1958: The House Appropriations Committee approves $200,000 for plans for the proposed West Branch Reservoir and $100,000 for the Shenango River Reservoir.

Dr. Eugene E. Elder, superintendent of Woodside Receiving Hospital since 1945, announces from Miami Beach that he will resign due to ill health.

June 9, 1933: Two men are dead, three others are hospitalized and more than a score of steel mill workers are reported overcome by heat as the record heat wave continues. The temperature on the Youngstown Sheet Tube Co. thermometer was reported to have reached 100 at 3:30 p.m.

Mill operations in the Youngstown district are expected to hit 50 percent. At least 42 of the area’s 83 open hearth furnaces will be on the active list.

Mahoning County spent $196,316 for relief in May, a decrease of $26,148 from what was spent in April.