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Today is Saturday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2013. There are 213 days left in the year.

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1533: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, is crowned as Queen Consort of England.

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

1796: Tennessee becomes the 16th state.

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.

1862: Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee assumes command of the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War.

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

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

1967: The Beatles album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is released.

1968: Author-lecturer Helen Keller, who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf almost all of her life, dies in Westport, Conn., at age 87.

1980: Cable News Network debuts.

2008: Hillary Rodham Clinton wins a lopsided, but largely symbolic, victory in Puerto Rico’s presidential primary.

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1988: In his memoirs, Lee Iacocca, chairman of Chrysler Corp., reveals that top executives of Chrysler and Allied Signal seriously considered a $40 billion hostile takeover of General Motors in 1987.

The summer job outlook for youths is brighter in the Youngstown area than in the summer of 1987, but employers can still afford to be choosy, says Gus Guzman, OBES employment service supervisor.

The Youngstown Central Area Community Improvement Corp. establishes four committees to focus efforts on different aspects of downtown redevelopment.

1973: The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency plans to deny pollution variance sought by Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. for its coke ovens at Brier Hill and Campbell.

Speaking at Chaney High School, U.S. Sen. Robert Taft Jr. says action by the Senate to block funding for the bombing in Cambodia is an impediment to getting North Vietnam to negotiate a peace.

A U.S. Department of Labor grant of $103,000 will allow the city to expand its summer employment program for youth by 235 students, bringing total participation to 510.

Francis Buckley, Boardman fireman, receives the Governor’s Award for Outstanding Community Service at a dinner marking the Boardman department’s 50th anniversary.

1963: The Ohio State Lantern reports that 15 members of the faculty are leaving “because the climate in the university and the community is not conducive to academic fulfillment.”

Anthony “Dooney” Sammarone, defeated in a Teamsters Local 377 election in January, is given a newly created post of investigator-organizer by the John J. Angelo-dominated board of directors of the local. The job pays $150 a week and $127 per month in car expenses.

An Ursuline High School football player, John Franken, 16, is seriously wounded in a knife attack at Idora Park in what police described as the first racially-motivated flare-up here. Franken said he was attacked by a group of Negroes, but would have probably been killed if a Negro football player from South High had not interceded.

1938: J. Eugene Roberts, former state senator from Mahoning and Trumbull counties, announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress in the 19th District.

Mahoning County Sheriff Ralph Elser again closes the pari-mutuel windows at the Milton Kennel Club’s new $40,000 dog racing track at Craig’s Beach.

Ten parking meter companies submit bids ranging from $38 to $65 per meter for 570 meters to be installed in the downtown area.