Years Ago

Today is Friday, June 3, the 154th day of 2011. There are 211 days left in the year.

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1888: The poem “Casey at the Bat,” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.

1861: Illinois Sen. Stephen A. Douglas, the Democratic presidential nominee in the 1860 election, dies in Chicago of typhoid fever; he was 48.

1937: The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, marries Wallis Warfield Simpson in Monts, France.

1948: The 200-inch reflecting Hale Telescope at the Palomar Mountain Observatory in California is dedicated.

1961: President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev open two days of summit talks in Vienna.

1963: Pope John XXIII dies at age 81; he is succeeded by Pope Paul VI.

1965: Astronaut Edward White becomes the first American to “walk” in space, during the flight of Gemini 4.

1981: Pope John Paul II leaves a Rome hospital and returns to the Vatican three weeks after the attempt on his life.

1989: Chinese army troops begin their sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.

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1986: The YSU administration offers faculty pay increases totaling 12 percent over three years, but the faculty union wants 30 percent, saying the average salary for a full-time professor is $33,309, lowest among 11 public colleges in Ohio.

A joint delegation of steelworkers and industry officials will take a bus from Youngstown to Washington, D.C., where they will testify to the need for fair trade legislation that would prevent form steel jobs from vanishing.

1971: Youngstown applies to the Ohio Law Enforcement Planning Agency for a $257,000 helicopter patrol program in the police department.

The Warren Civil Service commission upholds the layoff of four city patrolmen and five other city employees in an economy move.

Youngstown State University comes out of the budget chopping process in the Ohio House of Representatives with $11.6 million, slightly more than it had going in.

1961: Carmen and Joseph Tisone, operators of Tisone’s Tavern at 1810 Wilson Ave., raided by state liquor agents, admit that gambling went on but ask for leniency, “because it is the first violation since the family operation began in 1933.”

Dr. Joseph E. Smith, dean of Youngstown University, receives YU’s new Presidential Citation in recognition of 40 years of service to the university.

A.S. Glossbrenner, president of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., will appear before the public works subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee to plead for funds for a study of the Lake Erie-Ohio River Waterway.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan receives an honorary doctor of laws degree at the University of Toledo commencement in recognition of his support for the St. Lawrence Seaway and development of the Port of Toledo.

1936: The Mullins Manufacturing Corp. in Salem will begin producing all-steel low-cost utility trailers for passenger automobiles. More than10,000 units are scheduled to be built during the rest of the year.

About 750 pottery workers fail to appear at their jobs at the W.S. George Pottery Co.’s two East Palestine plants as the result of action said to have been taken at a union meeting.