Today is Friday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2006. There are 212 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2006. There are 212 days left in the year. On this date in 1953, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain is crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.
In 1886, President Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony. In 1897, Mark Twain, 61, is quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that "the report of my death was an exaggeration." In 1924, Congress grants U.S. citizenship to all American Indians. In 1941, baseball's "Iron Horse," Lou Gehrig, dies in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In 1946, the Italian monarchy is abolished in favor of a republic. In 1966, the U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 lands on the moon and begins transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface. In 1975, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller says his commission has found no widespread pattern of illegal activities at the Central Intelligence Agency. In 1979, Pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country. In 1986, for the first time, the public can watch the proceedings of the U.S. Senate on television as a six-week experiment of televised sessions begins. In 1995, a U.S. Air Force F-16-C is shot down by a Bosnian Serb surface-to-air missile while on a NATO air patrol in northern Bosnia; the pilot, Capt. Scott F. O'Grady, is rescued six days later.
June 2, 1981: Conrail is cutting its Youngstown area trackage, including some lines that were once the most heavily traveled in the area, such as the track that runs through downtown Youngstown.
Sharon has a new private ambulance service, Sherman Ambulance, that was officially certified by the city's licensing officer.
Primary election voting throughout the Mahoning Valley is reported as light.
While border agents try to curb a tide of aliens crossing the Mexican border, the Canadian frontier has become a convenient backdoor for tens of thousands of illegals sneaking into the United States. Haitians and Jamaicans are among those who use Canada as a stepping stone to the United States.
June 2, 1966: Gov. James A. Rhodes presents a charter for the Mahoning County Community College to Dr. Marvin O. Looney, president of the college, and James P. Griffin, chairman of the college board of trustees.
Room rates at St. Elizabeth Hospital and both units of the Youngstown Hospital Association are increased several dollars a day in order to increase wages for hospital employees, especially nurses. The charge for a semi-private room at YHA will go from $23 to $27 a day. The hourly pay for nurses will go from $2.10 to $2.30.
William "Duke" Burney, 53, operator of Duke's Hotel at 321 E. Boardman St., is shot to death, apparently accidentally by his wife, as he lay in bed.
June 2, 1956: The possibility of a crippling bus strike is over in Youngstown, at least for another year, as bus drivers accept a 10-cent an hour raise that will bring hourly pay to $2.
A New Castle boy's car hit a 6-year-old South Side girl and another youthful driver ran his car through a hedge and over a lawn as scores of high school students roam Youngstown streets in noisy caravans of decorated cars following the last day of school.
Dr. Edward C. Goldcamp, 67, credited with establishing bronchoscopic work in Youngstown, dies at his residence at 271 Park Ave. He had been ill for several years with abdominal cancer.
June 2, 1931: Harry Engle, Youngstown's former traction commissioner, files a $100,000 slander suit against Raleigh Reese, former assistant to the president of the Pennsylvania-Ohio Power Co., charging that Reese made false statements about him regarding the early days of the utility scandal.
About 100 petitions are in circulation seeking to remove Prosecutor Ray L. Thomas from office following the prosecutor's indictment by a special grand jury.
Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.'s second quarter common dividend will be cut in half, to 50 cents. The dividend was $1 in the first quarter and $1.25 a year earlier.