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Local history
50 years ago: 1973
The 19 members of the Logan Township Auxiliary Police Force were issued new pine green uniforms. Logan Chief Vaul E. Rouzer said they sometimes accompanied the regular police on patrols and would be used for parades and other civil functions.
25 years ago: 1998
A Conemaugh Health System MEDSTAR helicopter was to be stationed at Bon Secours Hospital, upsetting Altoona Hospital, who had wanted to affiliate with Bon Secours, which chose Conemaugh of Johnstown.
10 years ago: 2013
Reliant Senior Care Management of Philadelphia took over operations at Blair County's Valley View Home June 1 and hired 97% of the home's employees to stay and work there, pleasing Blair County Commissioners Terry Tomassetti and Diane Meling, who had expressed hiring concerns. About 14 employees chose retirement.
-- Compiled by Tim Doyle
World history
Today is Monday, June 5, the 156th day of 2023. There are 209 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history:
On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was arrested at the scene.
On this date:
-- In 1794, Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from taking part in any military action against a country that was at peace with the United States.
-- In 1950, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Henderson v. United States, struck down racially segregated railroad dining cars.
-- In 1967, war erupted in the Middle East. Israel, anticipating a possible attack by its Arab neighbors, launched a series of airfield strikes that destroyed nearly the entire Egyptian air force; Syria, Jordan and Iraq immediately entered the conflict.
-- In 1975, Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.
-- In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control reported that five men in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what later became known as AIDS.
-- In 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her Salt Lake City home. (Smart was found alive by police in a Salt Lake suburb in March 2003. One kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell, was sentenced to life without parole; the other, Wanda Barzee, was released in September 2018.)
-- In 2004, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
-- In 2006, more than 50 National Guardsmen from Utah became the first unit to work along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a crackdown by President George W. Bush.
-- In 2020, Minneapolis banned chokeholds by police, the first of many changes in law enforcement practices to be announced in the aftermath of George Floyd's death; officers would also now be required to intervene any time they saw unauthorized force by another officer.
-- The Associated Press