Today is Friday, June 6, the 157th day of 2003. There are 208 days left in the year. The Jewish

Today is Friday, June 6, the 157th day of 2003. There are 208 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday Shavuot begins at sunset. On this date in 1944, the D-Day invasion of Europe takes place during World War II as Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy, France.
In 1918, the World War I Battle of Belleau Wood, which results in a U.S. victory over the Germans, begins in France. In 1925, Walter Percy Chrysler founds the Chrysler Corp. In 1933, the first drive-in movie theater opens, in Camden, N.J. In 1934, the Securities and Exchange Commission is established. In 1966, black activist James Meredith is shot and wounded as he walks along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration. In 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy dies at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. In 1978, 25 years ago, California voters overwhelmingly approve Proposition 13, a primary ballot initiative calling for major cuts in property taxes.
June 6, 1978: Eight downtown Salem business buildings need immediate structural repairs for safety reasons, says the engineering firm of Adlaka and Associates of Youngstown.
Fire of undetermined origin destroys the old Wheatland School on Mercer Avenue.
At the suggestion of Law Director Richard Scullin, Hubbard City Council takes the first step toward breaking the city's ties with Hubbard Township. City Treasurer Dr. Thomas Crowe estimates the city will save about $11,200 that goes into the township's general fund.
June 6, 1963: John L. Donahue, 7th District appellate judge, dies of a heart attack in St. Clairsville following a dinner hosted by the Belmont County Bar Association. He was 52.
FBI agents from Cleveland and Youngstown join Warren police in investigating a daring $11,000 robbery at the Youngstown Road office of the Second National Bank.
A controversial commercial zone change for Market St. between Wilma and Vermont avenues becomes law as city council unanimously overturns Mayor Harry Savasten's veto.
June 6, 1953: "Grandma" Gertrude Grimsley, 49, of Warren gets her Youngstown College diploma to the applause of her husband, four daughters (two teachers, a nurse and a Kent State coed) and her three grandchildren. She taught school before she was married and returned to the classroom when her oldest daughter graduated from Youngstown College, but needed a degree to remain a teacher under present-day requirements.
Albert Shipka, 39, of Campbell, staff representative of the United Steelworkers Union, is hospitalized with a fractured leg and head lacerations after his car struck a utility pole in Wilson Ave., Campbell.
Police Capt. G. Woodrow Sicafuse is appointed chief of police in Struthers by Mayor Harold L. Milligan.
A 27-year-old High St. Man spends the night in jail after he complained about getting a jaywalking ticket in downtown Youngstown.
June 6, 1928: Steps are being taken to form a Youngstown post of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War, to which an estimated 900 Mahoning Valley veterans would be eligible. The D.A.V. has been endorsed by President Coolidge and Ohio Gov. Donahey.
Rayen School students are suggesting that Andrews Hollow be added to the school campus to be used as a laboratory and for nature study classes.
Shriners from three states are descending on New Castle to take part in ceremonies and a parade when the Syria Temple of Pittsburgh initiates 300 Western Pennsylvania Masons into the order.