Today is Tuesday, June 1, the 153rd day of 2004. There are 213 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, June 1, the 153rd day of 2004. There are 213 days left in the year. On this date in 1813, the commander of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, "Captain James Lawrence, says, "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with a British frigate.
In 1792, Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the union. In 1796, Tennessee becomes the 16th state. In 1801, Mormon leader Brigham Young is born in Whitingham, Vt. In 1868, James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, dies near Lancaster, Pa. In 1926, actress Marilyn Monroe is born in Los Angeles. In 1943, a civilian flight from Lisbon to London is shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all aboard, including actor Leslie Howard. In 1944, the British Broadcasting Corporation airs a coded message intended to warn the French resistance that the D-Day invasion is imminent. In 1958, Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France. In 1977, the Soviet Union formally charges Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. (Shcharansky is imprisoned, then released in 1986.) In 1989, former Sunday school teacher John E. List, sought for 18 years in the slayings of his mother, wife and three children in Westfield, N.J., is arrested in Richmond, Va. (List is later sentenced to life in prison.)
June 1, 1979: The Richley administration and Youngstown safety forces reach a tentative agreement on a wage package that calls for a 5 percent wage increase effective July 1 and another 5 percent Oct. 1.
A government index designed to forecast economic trends declines by a record 3.3 percent in April, providing new evidence that a sharp slowdown in the economy is underway.
Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone announces three chancery appointments. The Rev. Msgr. P. Breen Malone, pastor of St. Patrick Church, will be director of priests' continuing education, the Rev. Thomas J. McCarthy will be priests' personnel director and the Rev. Donald King will be director of vocations.
June 1, 1964: Youngstown police are questioning a 32-year-old Boardman man as a suspect in four armed robberies, including three at Lawson Dairy stores, over the Memorial Day weekend.
The nation's traffic death toll during the Memorial Day weekend was 429, a record high for a three-day observance of the holiday. Ohio registered 16 traffic fatalities.
The Supreme Court of the United States rules 8-1 that federal law allows Ohio's "fair trade" statute, which permits a manufacturer to fix a statewide price for brand-name goods.
June 1, 1954: Completion of the Ohio Turnpike will probably give heavy trucking in Youngstown, already one of the nation's major trucking centers, a big boom.
The Grant-Holladay Construction Co. of Dayton tells Mayor Frank X. Kryzan it is willing to make a "substantial contribution" toward extending sewer water lines to the McKelvey Lake area, where it intends to build homes.
Three masked bandits escape with $1,600 in receipts of the Sky-Hi Drive-In Theater on Youngstown-New Castle Road after holding up the projectionist and then kidnapping him in his own car.
June 1, 1929: The month of May was the wettest on record, according to L.H. Copeland, official weather observer in Millport, with precipitation of 6.5 inches. Rainfall in May a year earlier was but 2.03 inches.
Eight Protestant ministers and a Jewish rabbi sit on the same pulpit platform and hear four clergymen of different religious faiths extoll good will and fellowship among various creeds at Rodef Sholem Temple in Youngstown. The service was sponsored by the Men's Club of the Temple and presided over by Rabbi I.E. Philo. A large crowd attended.
Gov. Cooper sends letters to Geauga County's sheriff and prosecutor informing them that their duty to crackdown on gambling at the Bainbridge Park race track is clear. The track has been circumventing state law by using a "contribution" system whereby spectators "donate" to the purses of horses, with the purses then going to the supporters of the winning horse.