Today is Thursday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2006. There are 213 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2006. There are 213 days left in the year. On this date in 1813, the commander of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, says, "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with a British frigate.
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 Corp. 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 1980, Cable News Network makes its debut. In 1996, an estimated 200,000 participants, most of them schoolchildren, gather at the Lincoln Memorial to protest government cuts for social and educational programs. In 2001, a suicide bomber attacks a Tel Aviv nightclub, killing himself and 21 Israelis; the king, queen and seven other members of Nepal's royal family are slain by Crown Prince Dipendra, who then mortally wounds himself; "Dennis the Menace" creator Hank Ketcham dies in Pebble Beach, Calif., at age 81. In 2005, Paul Wolfowitz begins a five-year term as head of the 184-nation World Bank; Dutch voters reject the European Union constitution; a landslide sends 17 multimillion-dollar houses crashing down a hill in Laguna Beach, Calif.; Peruvian doctors separate the fused legs of Milagros Cerron, a 13-month-old baby girl known as Peru's "mermaid."
June 1, 1981: A poll shows a majority of Ohio Republicans favor U.S. Rep. John Ashbrook over Gov. James A. Rhodes in the race for the party's 1982 nomination for U.S. Senate.
A speeding car strikes a tree and then plunges into a Draper SE apartment in Warren, killing Mrs. Grace Benbow, 52.
After 28 years in the taxi business in Salem, Paul "Red" Hardin retires and says he's moving south. When he arrived in Salem in 1953, he competed with three existing cab companies to get established. His nine-cab company, which is being sold to two Boardman men, is the only one left.
June 1, 1966: Dr. Howard Jones, president of Youngstown University, presents honorary degrees to Dr. Howard Hanson, retired director of the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester; Richard L. Krabach, Ohio finance director; and Youngstown Mayor Anthony B. Flask. Dr. Hanson, the commencement speaker, urges graduates to shun materialism.
June arrives with record shattering low temperature and widely scattered light frost.
Malirat Saguansin, who arrived in the United States from Thailand in 1961, is the winner of the Anne Purnell award as Youngstown University's outstanding woman scholar.
June 1, 1956: The Youngstown area spends the last day of May in another drenching downpour. There was rain 22 days during the month, totaling 5.79 inches, about 1.7 inches over normal, but well below the 1946 record of 9.87 records.
A resolution urging county commissioners in the Mahoning Valley to set up a regional planning board to solve water, sewer, traffic and other expansion problems is passed by the Mahoning-Trumbull Mayors' Association at the Victoria Caf & eacute;.
Contracts for the Youngstown Jet Base housing project will be let in the fall. A $70,000 architectural contract has been awarded for the 250-unit housing project.
June 1, 1931: A U.S. Immigration inspector, F.E. Bangs, joins Youngstown police in questioning 73 communists arrested during a protest that turned violent in Youngstown. Some of the men who led the battle face deportation.
George M. Defrees Petit, known to hundreds throughout the Mahoning Valley as "Scoop DePetit," a Vindicator police reporter for nearly 13 years, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital of a heart attack. Petit had been a printer, reporter, jockey, actor, manager of special entertainment stunts and even a parachute jumper.
The Presbyterian Church in the USA, meeting in Pittsburgh, places the full power of the church and its 2 million communicants behind any member of the denomination that adopts the Quaker attitude of conscientious objection to war and military training.