Today is Tuesday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2010. There are 213 days left in the year.

May 31, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

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On this date in:

1792: Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the union.

1796: Tennessee becomes the 15th state.

1868: James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, dies near Lancaster, Pa., at age 77.

1909: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle. (It closed in October the same year.)

1943: A civilian flight from Portugal to England is shot down by the Germans during World War II, killing all 17 people aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.

1958: Charles de Gaulle becomes premier of France, marking the beginning of the end of the Fourth Republic.

1967: The Beatles release their album, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

1979: The short-lived state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia comes into existence.

1980: Cable News Network makes its debut.

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June 1, 1985: Ohio Gov. Richard F. Celeste, standing in the middle of rubble on Main Street in Newton Falls, pledges to do whatever is necessary to rebuild after a tornado roared through Trumbull County.

Ronald R. Anderson, chairman and CEO of GF Corp., says the company lost $10 million in 1984, but is ready for sales growth and future profits.

1970: Four motorists are killed in Memorial Day weekend traffic accidents in the Youngstown district.

Wayne Trimbule, 20, of Youngstown, who was recently inducted into the U.S. Army, is dead after being accidentally shot by an acquaintance who was playing with 22-caliber pistol. Four young men are being questioned.

Juvenile Court Judge Martin P. Joyce orders nine teenage boys and a girl on house arrest until they make full restitution for $2,000 in vandalism done to an East Side Home.

1960: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown, will be awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by Vincennes University, Vincennes, Ind.

George C. Brainard, Youngstown and Cleveland industrialist, marks his 75th birthday by retiring a chairman of the executive committee of Addressograph-Multigraph and a director of its domestic and international subsidiaries.

A crowd gathers in the rain to dedicate Mauthe Park in Struthers, named for chairman of the board of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. The park features a Sabrejet fighter plane that has been installed on blocks.

1935: Youngstown Mayor Mark E. Moore buys his family’s 140-acre homestead in Milton Township, saying he plans to restore the farm, which has become run down, in his spare time and plant trees.

U.S. Sen. Robert Wagner, father of the Wagner bill that will create a National Labor Relations Board, will be the principal speaker at the outing of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Tin and Steel Workers at Idora Park. He replaces Sen. Huey “Kingfish” Long, the Louisiana as speaker.