Today is Tuesday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2009. There are 212 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2009. 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 Grover Cleveland married 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 passes a measure that is then signed by President Calvin Coolidge granting American citizenship to all U.S.-born American Indians. In 1941, Lou Gehrig, baseball’s “Iron Horse,” dies in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; he was 37. In 1946, Italy holds a referendum which results in the Italian monarchy being 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 1969, the American destroyer USS Frank E. Evans is struck and cut in two by the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne during naval exercises in the South China Sea; 74 crew members from the Frank E. Evans are killed. In 1975, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller says his commission has found no widespread pattern of illegal activities at the CIA. 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 1999, South Africans go to the polls in their second post-apartheid election, giving the African National Congress a decisive victory; retiring president Nelson Mandela is succeeded by Thabo Mbeki.

June 2, 1984: The Brookfield Board of Education rejects the report of a state-appointed fact finder, saying he had not been objective during a day-long session aimed at reaching a new contract between the board and the Brookfield Federation of Teachers.

Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini loses his World Boxing Association Lightweight Championship in a TKO loss to Livingstone Bramble in Buffalo.

Modern Window & Awning Co. acquires the Steel City Milling building west of Andrews Avenue from the former W.B. Pollock Co.

June 2, 1969: William V. Davis Jr., 52, a Sebring Ford dealer, is killed when he loses control of his car at 95 miles an hour in a drag race at Ohio Drag City on Gibson Road.

The William B. Pollock Co., a major producer of iron and steel plant equipment and one of the Youngstown district’s older firms, is sold to General American Transportation Co.

The Most Rev. James W. Malone, bishop of Youngstown, will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters at the 47th spring commencement of Youngstown State University, where he will deliver the main address.

June 2, 1959: The Youngstown schools expect all students to follow the rules, regardless of race, color or creed, board of education President Warren P. Williamson tells Nathaniel Lee, NAACP representative, who questioned the expulsion of an 8th grade student at East High.

Alfred S. Glossbrenner, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., and Alfred Montgomery Tredwell, president of Sharon Steel Corp., are among six people receiving honorary degrees at Westminster College’s commencement exercises.

June 2, 1934: Youngstown district steel production is scheduled to reach 65 percent of capacity, near the peak for the year.

Youngstown’s public relief load drops to a new low since early 1932 as the Allied Council carried over into June only 7,627 families on relief.

The Amalgamated Steel Workers union serves notice that it is demanding the revision of the steel code to eliminate widespread abuses, and will seek minimum, pay of $1 an hour and a minimum five-day, 30-hour week.