Today is Thursday, June 5, the 156th day of 2003. There are 209 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, June 5, the 156th day of 2003. There are 209 days left in the year. On this date in 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is immediately arrested.
In 1783, Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier publicly demonstrate their hot-air balloon in a 10-minute flight over Annonay, France.which prohibits Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power. In 1917, about 10 million American men begin registering for the draft in World War I. In 1933, the United States goes off the gold standard. In 1940, the Battle of France begins during World War II. In 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall gives a speech at Harvard University in which he outlines an aid program for Europe that comes to be known as "The Marshall Plan." In 1967, war erupts in the Mideast as Israel raids Egyptian military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq enter the conflict. In 1975, Egypt reopens 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 reports that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they are the first recognized cases of what later becomes known as AIDS. In 1999, jazz and pop singer Mel Torme dies in Los Angeles at age 73.
June 5, 1978: Columbiana County deputy sheriffs are holding a Sebring man in connection with the shooting deaths of his ex-wife and her boyfriend at the woman's Perry Township home. Dead are Sheila Campbell, 29, and Ronald Franket, 36.
Lester Rawlins, winner of the Tony Award for featured actor for his supporting role in the Broadway play, "Da," is the former Leonard Rosenberg of Farrell, Pa. Rawlins graduated from Farrell High School in the early 1940s and is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University.
The old Four Mile Run Christian Church building in Austintown has neither a bell in its steeple or a flock in its fold, but it remains a symbol as the church, now celebrating its 150th anniversary of its founding. A new church building was constructed in 1969.
June 5, 1963: The Citizens Association of Metropolitan Youngstown is organized during a meeting at the Central YMCA. The group's goal is to combat crime and corruption and promote good citizenship and good government. The Rev. Samuel C. Sharp, executive secretary of the Youngstown Council of Churches, was instrumental in forming the group.
Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.'s open hearth department at the Campbell Works produces 159,653 tons of steel in May, a new production record.
The U.S. auto industry produces its 6 millionth car of the 1963 model year as it continues its drive to eclipse all previous production records. Detroit is on track to turn out its 1 millionth truck of the model year within days.
June 5, 1953: Congressman Michael J. Kirwan says the Senate will probably restore cuts made by the House of Representatives in federal appropriations for hospital construction . Officials of both St. Elizabeth Hospital and South Side Hospital say they will proceed with their planned additions with or without federal aid.
Youngstown Police Chief Edward J. Allen, who has gained nationwide prominence for his accomplishments in law enforcement, turns down an offer to be police chief of Palm Springs, Calif. Palm Springs mayor and former movie star Charles Farrell had made Allen his first choice.
"This is a time for greatness. Little men are not fit to deal with big problems," Dr. Herbert Beecher Hudnut, pastor of Woodward Ave. Presbyterian Church of Detroit, tells 245 members of the graduating class of the Rayen School.
June 5, 1928: Revision of the Youngstown building code, hiring additional building inspectors and firemen, and establishing a fire prevention bureau are recommended as fire prevention measures. Wooden shingles would be barred under the new code.
H.F. Davis, vice president of the Westinghouse Electric Co., says radio has a great future, but he also predicts that talking movies will soon be viewed in the home and that the new medium of television will some day allow the broadcasting of movies to homes.
There are 2,792 children of school age in the Girard school district, according to a census completed by Miss Roma Lambert.