Years Ago

Today is Monday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2014. There are 212 days left in the year.

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1863: During the Civil War, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman writes a letter to his wife, Ellen, in which he comments, “Vox populi, vox humbug” (the voice of the people is the voice of humbug).

1864: (New Style Calendar; May 21, 1864, Old Style). After decades of scorched-earth warfare, leaders of the Circassians, a Muslim ethnic group in the Caucasus region, surrender in Sochi to the army of the Russian Empire, which proceeds to expel hundreds of thousands of Circassians.

1886: President Grover Cleveland, 49, marries Frances Folsom, 21, in the Blue Room of the White House. (To date, Cleveland is the only president to marry in the executive mansion.)

1897: Mark Twain, 61, is quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that “the report of my death was an exaggeration.”

1924: Congress passes a measure that is signed by President Calvin Coolidge guaranteeing full American citizenship for all Native Americans born within U.S. territorial limits.

1941: Baseball’s “Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, dies in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; he was 37.

1953: The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II takes place in London’s Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI.

1966: The U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 lands on the moon and begins transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.

1979: Pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.

1983: Half of the 46 people aboard an Air Canada DC-9 are killed after fire breaks out on board, forcing the jetliner to make an emergency landing at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: North Star Steel Co. will use “all moral and legal means” to oppose the United Steelworkers Union’s bid to organize workers at the Youngstown minimill, says David Desch, employee relations manager.

Denis Case, an Ohio Division of Wildlife biologist, bands a bald eaglet in a nest 90 feet up a tree in Mosquito Creek Wildlife Area.

Warren police looking for a suspected killer from Detroit confiscate cocaine valued at $100,000 in a car thought to belong to the Detroit suspect. The man is wanted for the shooting of Wayne Royal, 36, in the Highland Terrace housing project.

1974: Robert E. Saffold, the new executive director of the Warren-Trumbull Council of Economic Development, is gearing up for a full slate of poverty-related programs, and the council is taking applications for 12 full-time employees.

Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, the 82-year-old former primate of Hungary, opens a four-day visit to the Youngstown area.

Official tabulation shows that 70,322 voted in the Mahoning County primaries and special elections May 7, for a turnout of 48 percent, about 10 percentage points above the state average.

1964: Burglars break into the Moose Lodge at 580 E. State St., Salem, crack two safes and make off with nearly $1,900.

Armed robbery charges will be filed against a 32-year-old Boardman man who was identified in a police lineup as the “paper bag bandit” who robbed three Lawson Dairy stores and the Hunter Confectionery.

Holiday Designs Inc., a new enterprise, says it plans to begin regular production at the former Spaulding China plant in Sebring, which Holiday bought.

1939: The German-American Bund and the German-American League for Culture — the “noisy minorities among German people in the U.S.” — cannot exist long because they introduce principles contrary to American traditions, Theodore Hoffman, national secretary of the Steuben Societies, tells members of the William F. Maag Steuben unit in Youngstown.

Mahoning County is $62.08 richer because of a will left by an unidentified inmate of the county home who died some time ago, leaving his bank account in Lorain National Bank to the county. The account was long ignored, until the bank’s assets were liquidated at 95 cents on the dollar.