Years Ago

June 2, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2010. There are 212 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1924: Congress passes a measure that is then signed by President Calvin Coolidge granting American citizenship to all U.S.-born American Indians.

1941: Baseball’s “Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, 37, dies in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

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.

1979: Pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.

1986: For the first time, the public can watch the proceedings of the U.S. Senate on television.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: Coach Brenda Miele’s Mineral Ridge Rams score a stunning 4-0 victory over Archbold for the Ohio Class A girls fast pitch softball championship.

More than 75,000 homes and businesses in northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania are without electric power on the third day after a tornado swept through the area.

1970: Members of Bakers & Confectionery Workers Local 177 vote 8 to 1 against an offer proposed by the city’s three largest bakeries, Continental Baking Co., Ward’s and Schwebel’s.

Professional thieves cut a hole in a store wall and sidetrack a burglar alarm at the Hart Jewelry store, 783 W. Market St., in Warren, and escape with $100,000 worth of jewelry from a vault.

1960: Youngstown University graduates its largest class ever, 713 men and women, including three who graduated summa cum laude, Jane Cunningham, Mary Gough Guterba and Sister M. Imelda Marinovich, by carrying averages of at least 2.8 on a 3 point scale.

Sixth Ward Councilman Gerald K. Hayes proposes legislation to prohibit the changing of police department uniforms without council’s approval.

Coach Gus Hlebovy’s East High track team brings an end to Rayen School’s three year hold on the city title.

1935: A campaign against draymen operating without city licenses is launched by License Clerk M.J. Burke, who says he will also resume a similar war against junk dealers.

The old Federal Savings & Loan Co. becomes the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Youngstown after its federal charter is filed with the Secretary of State.

H.R. Packard, executive secretary of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, predicts the Senate commerce committee will approve $5 million for the Beaver-Mahoning Canal, despite some opposition.