TODAY IS SUNDAY, JUNE 6, THE 158TH DAY OF 2004. THERE ARE 208 DAYS LEFT IN THE YEAR. ON THIS DATE IN 1944, THE D-DAY INVASION OF EUROPE TAKES PLACE DURING WORLD WAR II AS ALLIED FORCES STORMED THE

Today is Sunday, June 6, the 158th day of 2004. There are 208 days left in the year. On this date in 1944, the D-Day invasion of Europe takes place during World War II as Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France. In 1844, the Young Men's Christian Association is founded in London. In 1918, the World War I Battle of Belleau Wood, which resulted 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 1942, Japanese forces retreat in the World War II Battle of Midway.
In 1966, black activist James Meredith is shot and wounded as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration. In 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, a day after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. In 1978, California voters overwhelmingly approve Proposition 13, a primary ballot initiative calling for major cuts in property taxes. In 1984, government forces in India storm the Golden Temple in Amritsar in an effort to crush Sikh extremists. In 1994, President Clinton joins leaders from America's World War II allies to mark the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. In 1999, the space shuttle Discovery returned from a 10-day mission that included a visit to the international space station. In 2003, the government reported the U.S. unemployment rate had hit a nine-year high of 6.1 percent the previous month.
June 6, 1979: Girard Councilman Joseph J. Melfi ends the tenure of Girard's first full-time mayor, Nick J. D'Eramo, by a margin of just 81 votes of 3,364 cast in the Democratic primary. Melfi will face Republican David Hall in November.
Youngstown voters approve a .4 mill renewal levy for support of Mill Creek Park by a 2-1 margin.
George Vukovich, clerk of Youngstown City Council, receives 10,903 votes to lead a field of seven candidates for the Democratic nomination for mayor. William R. Shranko, former administrative aide to Mayor J. Phillip Richley, received 6,598 votes and Clerk of Courts Rosemary Durkin ran third with 6,118.
Salem voters reject a 2-mill bond issue for school construction by a 228-vote margin. The issue was aimed primarily at reducing overcrowding in the city's elementary buildings.
Daniel J. Sferra leads a field of six candidates in the primary to win the Democratic nomination for mayor of Warren. He will face Republican William R. Shank in November.
June 6, 1964: On the 20th anniversary of D-Day, CBS airs a special report, "D-Day Plus 20 Years," which features a return of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower to Normandy. On a British TV commemorative program, Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery declares, "I do not believe Eisenhower ever really understood the strategy of the Normandy campaign. He seemed to be to get the whole thing muddled up." Eisenhower declines to respond.
President Johnson declares that record high employment and a four-year low in the jobless rate are strong evidence that a recent tax cut is stimulating the nation's economy and creating new jobs.
The National Rivers and Harbors Congress calls for publication of the long-delayed survey report on a proposed Lake Erie-Ohio River Waterway, which the congress has endorsed a number of times. The report is being held by the Army Corps of Engineers in Pittsburgh.
Mahoning Valley real estate agents and homebuilders have begun preparing to welcome an increasing number of advance personnel arriving in the area from Detroit in anticipation of construction of the General Motors plant in Lordstown. Cars with Michigan license plates are being seen with increasing frequency, cruising area neighborhoods.
June 6, 1954: Four Youngstown men graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. They are Cadet Sgt. James F. Obendorfer, Cadet Sgt. Donald C. Porter, Cadet Sgt. James R. Randall and Cadet M. Sgt. Andre G. Broumas.
Dominic "Moosey" Caputo, racket king in Youngstown in the middle 1940s, is kicked out of Waterford Park racetrack at Chester, W. Va., for allegedly operating a bookie business there in competition with the track.
Miss Ada March Rogers, a member of The Rayen School faculty for 45 years and girls' adviser for 12 years, is retiring. A graduate of Wellesley College with 80 hours of graduate credits and a masters degree from Columbia University, she taught primarily Latin and English classes.
June 6, 1929: During a debate on the question of Prohibition in Washington, D.C., lawyer Clarence Darrow, speaking against the anti-liquor measure, is cheered by the audience, while Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, is jeered, heckled and booed.
Suggestions by Dr. Haven Emerson of Columbia University that Youngstown's municipal hospital, now used to control infectious diseases, be converted into a general hospital and that health work in the schools be turned over to the city, are rejected by City Health Commissioner H.E. Welch and Schools Superintendent J.J. Richeson.
The Youngstown Planning Commission recommends that its engineer, Gerald S. Gimre, confer with C.S. Robinson, vice president of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., regarding the drafting of legislation in the city that would control smoke.
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