Years Ago

Today is Sunday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2014. There are 213 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

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.

1939: The British submarine HMS Thetis sinks during a trial dive off North Wales with the loss of 99 lives.

Mexico officially abolishes the siesta.

1943: A civilian flight from Portugal to England is shot down by Germany 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.

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

1989: Former Sunday school teacher John E. List, sought for almost 18 years in the slayings of his mother, wife and three children in Westfield, N.J., is arrested in Richmond, Va. (List was later sentenced to life in prison; he died March 21, 2008.)

2004: A federal judge declares the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional.

2009: Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330 carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashes into the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of everyone on board.

General Motors files for Chapter 11, becoming the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection.

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: Youngstown City Council questions an 11 percent pay raise for Gary Sympson, the city’s emergency management technician, who also happens to be a friend and political supporter of Mayor Patrick Ungaro.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. of Poland says his Democratic colleagues allowed a dissident House GOP minority to topple House Speaker James Wright of Texas. “It’s a sad day when partisanship and dissidents can set the agenda for the House. “

Visitors to Lake Milton are finding new rules in effect since the state took control from the Youngstown Park and Recreation Department, including a ban on alcohol, overnight camping and off-road vehicles and lower speed limits.

1974: The Youngstown Board of Education will close Coitsville School in Coitsville and transfer its 149 students to Mary Haddow School.

Floyd Wade, 53, of North Jackson, an employee of the General Motors Corp. Lordstown plant since 1966, is killed in an industrial accident at the plant.

Four Girard High School graduating senior girls are in fair condition in two Youngstown hospitals with injuries received when their car plunged down an embankment off McCollum Road in Mill Creek Park.

1964: Ohio’s Memorial Day weekend death toll is 16, but Mahoning County, which had 30 people injured in crashes, had no fatalities for the second year in a row.

A record 427 students receive diplomas at the sixth commencement of Cardinal Mooney High School. Top students are John G. Himes with a scholastic average of 96.8 and Stephanie A. Hrinko with a 94.4.

1939: A gas explosion demolishes a two- story frame building used as a temporary school in Barberton, injuring 57 pupils and teachers, including three near death and 28 others who are hospitalized.

John A. Lynch, 45, a Republic Steel inspector, dashes through flames in the early morning to rescue three of his children from a fire that swept through their home at 923 Vernon Ave.

Electrical power consumption rose 21 percent in May over the same month a year earlier, reflecting an increase in industrial operations and retail business in the Youngstown area.