Today is Tuesday, June 3, the 154th day of 2003. There are 211 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, June 3, the 154th day of 2003. There are 211 days left in the year. On this date in 1963, Pope John XXIII dies at age 81. He is succeeded by Pope Paul VI.
In 1621, the Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands -- now known as New York. In 1808, Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy, is born in Christian County, Ky. In 1888, the poem "Casey at the Bat," by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is first published, in the San Francisco Daily Examiner. In 1937, the Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, marries Wallis Warfield Simpson in Monts, France. In 1948, the 200-inch reflecting telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California is dedicated. In 1965, astronaut Edward White becomes the first American to "walk" in space, during the flight of "Gemini 4." In 1968, pop artist Andy Warhol is shot and critically wounded in his New York film studio, known as "The Factory," by Valerie Solanas, an actress and self-styled militant feminist. In 1981, Pope John Paul II leaves a Rome hospital and returns to the Vatican three weeks after the attempt on his life. In 1983, Gordon Kahl, a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota, is killed in a gun battle with law-enforcement officials near Smithville, Ark. In 1989, Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, dies.
June 3, 1978: The Sheraton Inn Corp. has approached Peter A. Vessella about building an inn on urban renewal land in downtown New Castle, Pa. Vessella, owner of a Holiday Inn on Route 422, has been discussing the possibility of building a Holiday Inn downtown.
Gov. James A. Rhodes, speaking at the Lordstown High School commencement, says the Mahoning Valley needs 15,000 to 20,000 new jobs and says he is working to bring new industry to the area.
A representative from Jimmy Carter's White House, Robert Strauss, U.S. trade ambassador, meeting with Mahoning Valley politicians in Youngstown, says there are "no pat answers" to the economic problems of the district.
June 3, 1963: Judge Harold S. Rickert, writing in The School Dispatch, official publication of the Youngstown public schools, warns that the "greatest threat to the future of our society is the school dropout who cannot hope ever to become a respectable employed citizen of our community."
Dr. Martin Essig, superintendent of Akron city schools, will address the graduates of Canfield High School on the topic, "Privileged to Serve." David Hood, one of three top students in the class of 105, will be the honor speaker.
Vandals break into "Quailwood" on Clingan Road in Poland Township, home of the late author Ethel Hull Miller, causing several hundred dollars damage.
Mahoning County commissioners will replace the old 550-gallon county gasoline storage tank buried under the north end of the Market Street bridge to save a yearly leakage loss of about 2,000 gallons of gasoline. The loss through leakage is believed to have gone on for about three years.
June 3, 1953: A 47-year-old Ohio Edison Co. employee jumps to his death from the Ohio Edison radio tower on company property on Wayne Ave.
The Ohio Supreme Court clears the way for a northern Ohio turnpike paved with Portland cement. In a 7-0 decision, the court reverses an appeals court decision that had ordered the Ohio Turnpike Commission to take bids on both asphalt and cement to pave the 241-mile toll road.
Nineteen student nurses at Jameson Memorial Hospital receive their caps during a ceremony at Central Presbyterian Church, New Castle.
June 3, 1928: Ohio's 48 votes will be cast for Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York on the first ballot at the Democratic convention in Houston, Texas, reports Ernest N. Nemenyi, Vindicator politics writer.
Meeting in Lorain, the Slovak League of America selects Youngstown as the site of its biennial convention in 1930.
Four men are arrested and a quantity of alleged liquor is confiscated in a raid on the insurance office of McCrillis Co., which is located on the first floor of City Hall. Mayor Heffernan says the company will be evicted.