Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2011. There are 213 days left in the year.

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1813: The mortally wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, gives the order, “Don’t give up the ship” during a losing battle with the British frigate HMS Shannon in the War of 1812.

1861: Capt. John Quincy Marr, CSA, is killed during a skirmish with Union cavalrymen near Fairfax Court House in Virginia; he is widely regarded as the first Confederate officer killed in the Civil War.

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

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.

1961: Regular FM stereo broadcasting begins in the United States.

1971: American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, 78, dies in Stockbridge, Mass.

1980: Cable News Network makers its debut.

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1986: An employee buyout of the financially troubled Copperweld Steel Co. is being seriously discussed by company owners and the United Steelworkers Union.

Nine Trumbull County local governments make an initial financial commitment to the proposed countywide 911 emergency communications network, but voters may ultimately decide if they want to pay for a $2 million system.

1971: Three Youngstown cadet patrolmen are sworn in: Richard R. Brincko, Richard S. Gresh and Edward L. Traficant.

The wreckage of a chartered airplane carrying Audie Murphy, the most decorated U.S. Army soldier of World War II, and five other men is found on a rugged mountaintop near Roanoke, Va.

1961: Walter Bender, former head of General Fireproofing Co., and Charles M. White, former chairman of he board of Republic Steel Corp., receive honorary degrees at the 39th annual commencement of Youngstown University in Stambaugh Auditorium.

The Youngstown Steel Door Co. ships 200 sets of aluminum boxcar doors, which weigh about half that of steel doors, to the Maine Central Railroad.

1936: The Mutual Construction Co. of Youngstown submits the low bid of $47,325 for general contracting on the new $70,000 Girard Post Office.

A new traffic plan for Spring Common that was to go into effect June 1 is delayed by Traffic Commissioner Clarence Coppersmith while technical details are worked out.