Years Ago

Today is Sunday, June 3, the 155th day of 2012. There are 211 days left in the year.

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

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

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

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

1962: Air France Flight 007, a U.S.-bound Boeing 707, crashes while attempting to take off from Orly Airport near Paris; all but two of the 132 people aboard are killed.

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.

1972: Sally J. Priesand is ordained as America’s first female rabbi at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1989: Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, dies.

1992: Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton appears on “The Arsenio Hall Show,” where he plays “Heartbreak Hotel” on the saxophone.

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1987: A Columbus engineering firm takes core samples of the Lake Milton Dam to determine how much of the deteriorated surface must be stripped off and replaced.

Health Enterprises of America sells its holdings in Mahoning Valley nursing homes to Horizon Health Care Corp. of Tacoma, Wash.

Dan Faraglia, a 7-year-old centerfielder for Boak & Sons Insulation in the Austintown Youth League, makes an unassisted triple play by catching a pop fly and then stepping on second base to get one runner out and tagging the first base runner before he could get back to the bag.

1972: The Western Reserve Transit Authority will have to borrow against future tax receipts to keep buses rolling after June 30, says CPA Abe Harshman, WRTA secretary-treasurer.

Donald W. Bailey, 21, an innocent bystander at the Fleming Tavern on Mahoning Avenue, is killed by a shotgun blast during a dispute between the owner and a patron over a go-go dancer.

Beth Anne Maiorano, a 7th grader at St. Dominic School, will reign as queen of the 1972 Youngstown Soap Box Derby.

1962: The Rev. Russell J. Humbert, D.D., 57, president of DePauw University and former pastor of Trinity Methodist Church in Youngstown, dies in Traverse City, Mich., after a heart attack.

Youngstown University receives a National Science Foundation grant for support of a nine-month in-service institute in mathematics for secondary school teachers.

Terry Brown of Canfield receives Hiram College’s most valuable player award for his performance on Coach Bill Hollinger’s basketball team.

Youngstown Police Chief William Golden warns commanding officers in his department that they face reduction in rank, suspension or dismissal if they fail to maintain closer supervision of their police officers.

1937:Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins assigns a federal conciliator to come to Warren to meet with Republic Steel Corp. officials and representatives of striking workers.

Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., says it is the responsibility of local authorities to provide protection for willing workers during a strike called by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee.

Thomas Grimes, 25-year-old Westinghouse Electric employee in Sharon who won more than $33,000 in the Irish Sweepstakes, says he won’t resign his $150-a-month job at the local plant.