Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, June 3, the 154th day of 2014. There are 211 days left in the year.

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1621: The Dutch West India Co. receives its charter for a trade monopoly in parts of the Americas and Africa.

1808: Confederate President Jefferson Davis is born in Christian County, Ky.

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

1924: Author Franz Kafka, 40, dies near Vienna.

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.

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

1964: South Korean President Park Chung-hee declares martial law in the face of student protests.

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

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1989: Route 224 in Boardman becomes something of a parade route for hot rods and classic cars in town for the 11th annual Hot Rod Supernationals at the Canfield Fairgrounds.

The estate of Alice Resch Powers, who died Sept. 26 at the age of 81, is left to an educational trust that will benefit seven colleges and universities, including Youngstown State University.

The Catholic Diocese of Youngstown adopts interim guidelines for families requesting permission to cremate deceased family members. Bishop James W. Malone says fewer than 6 percent of Catholic funerals involve cremation.

1974: Firemen are seeking the cause of a spectacular three-alarm fire that swept through the three top floors of the Schween-Wagner Building at 125 W. Federal St.

Vandals break into the Science Hill Junior High School on Liberty Road and ransack four classrooms and the teachers’ lounge.

The NAACP and its Youngstown branch file suit in federal court on behalf of six students and their parents against the Youngstown Board of Education and various state officials seeking an end to segregation in city schools.

1964: Glenn Elder, 54, of Austintown is killed at the Republic Steel Corp. plant on Poland Avenue when spraying acid led to a 10-foot fall in which he fractured his skull.

The Mahoning County grand jury is dropping its investigation of organized-crime activities but recommends strongly that the probe be pursued at a later date.

Poland Seminary High School graduates 160 students. Addressing the class are its four top students: Margie McCuskey, Linda Pipoly, Kenneth Raupple and Peggy Gerber.

1939: Judge Walter W. Braham of New Castle, Pa., speaks at the graduation of 85 students at Hubbard High School. Phillip T. Doughton, class president, delivers the class address.

Joe Hoza, 62, of Rigby Street, is charged with manslaughter in the death of Hilda Martin, 16, who died when Hoza fired into a truckload of people at his service station after an argument over payment for two gallons of gasoline.