Today is Wednesday, June 11, the 162nd day of 2003. There are 203 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, June 11, the 162nd day of 2003. There are 203 days left in the year. On this date in 1776, the Continental Congress forms a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.
In 1509, England's King Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon. In 1919, "Sir Barton" wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing's first Triple Crown winner. In 1942, the United States and the Soviet Union sign a lend-lease agreement to aid the Soviet war effort in World War II. In 1963, Buddhist monk Quang Duc immolates himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. In 1970, the United States' presence in Libya comes to an end as the last detachment left Wheelus Air Base. In 1977, a 20-day hostage drama in the Netherlands ends as Dutch marines storm a train and a school held by South Moluccan extremists. Six gunmen and two hostages on the train are killed. In 1978, Joseph Freeman Jr. becomes the first black priest ordained in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1979, actor John Wayne dies at age 72. In 2001, Timothy McVeigh is executed by injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
June 11, 1978: Ohio Education Association President Sally Savage of McDonald is launching an "oust-Rhodes" drive, claiming that Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes has failed to serve the interests of education and educators in Ohio.
Despite sizable setbacks in basic steel and metal-working, employment in the Youngstown-Warren job market is increasing. State statistics show that 2,600 more persons were employed in the Mahoning Valley at the end of April, compared to a year earlier.
Jockey Steve Cauthen is pictured raising his hand in victory after riding Affirmed to victory in the Belmont Stakes to capture horse racing's triple crown. Affirmed nosed out Alydar by about three inches.
June 11, 1963: The West Federal St. YMCA swimming pool is closed for the remainder of the week so employees can clean up the debris-littered pool bottom caused when vandals broke 37 windows over the weekend. Juvenile officers are questioning neighborhood children about the vandalism.
The ground water level for the Youngstown district hits a record low in May dropping to 35.62 feet, or about 79 feet below the level a year earlier. The Mahoning River basin averaged only 80 percent of capacity.
Quang Duc, an aged Buddhist monk, soaks his robes in gasoline and burns himself to death before thousands of onlookers at a Saigon intersection to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's government. An Associated Press photographer captures a picture of the monk sitting upright and motionless as he burns to death.
June 11, 1953: A dozen interested citizens turn out for the first public hearing held by the Youngstown Planning Commission to discuss the city's proposed master plan.
The Valley Television Co., headed by automobile dealer Al Wagner, asks the Federal Communications Commission in Washington to revoke assignment of TV Channel 21 in Youngstown to Polan Industries Inc. of Huntington, W. Va.
The Republic Rubber division of Lee Rubber & amp; Tire Corp. on Albert St. is shut down by a strike after the collapse of lengthy contract negotiations.
The Youngstown Sesquicentennial Commission, headed by Probate Judge Clifford M. Woodside, approves a program that will begin in July and continue until November.
June 11, 1928: Anthony Novosel, 13, and Marco Clarich, 21, drown when a homemade boat in which Novosel and Clarich's younger brother, John, were riding hits a rock near the water works on the Shenango River and overturns. Clarich was on shore and went into the water in an attempt to save the boys. John Clarich and another passenger, George Roman, made it to shore. Young Novosel and the older Clarich were swept away.
Youngstown Fireman James McCarthy is badly cut on the left wrist by falling glass while fighting a fire at three Boardman St. stores, Goldberg Brothers, L. Frank & amp; Sons and Carl Hoffman. Firemen also fought a fire at the Mazda plant of the General Electric Co. on Williams St. Damage is estimated at more than $50,000 in the two fires.
May's payroll of $6.9 million is the best so far in 1928, indicating better industrial operations for the last 30 days. The May figure, however, is still $9,656 behind May 1927 and $75,361 less than May 1926.