Years Ago

Today is Monday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2015. 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.

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

1915: The T.S. Eliot poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is first published in “Poetry: A Magazine of Verse” in Chicago.

1933: In a bizarre scene captured by news photographers, Lya Graf, a female circus dwarf, sat in the lap of financier J.P. Morgan Jr. during a recess of a Senate hearing on the stock market crash of 1929.

1943: A civilian flight from Portugal to England was shot down by Germany during World War II, killing all 17 people aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.

1955: The romantic comedy “The Seven Year Itch,” starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, has its world premiere in New York.

1968: Author-lecturer 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.

1980: Cable News Network makes its debut.

1990: President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev sign the foundation of a landmark treaty for the first cuts in strategic nuclear missiles and a pact to slash chemical weapons stockpiles.

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.

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1990: Construction worker James Pezzatta, 68, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital of injuries suffered when the roof collapses on a building under construction at Mahoning and Dunlap avenues.

Shareholders of McKinley Bank in Niles vote overwhelmingly to sell their shares to Ohio Bancorp. Inc. of Youngstown, which will operate McKinley’s three branches as part of Dollar Savings & Trust Co.

Laszlo Domonkos, a 15-year-old Boy Scout working toward his Eagle Scout award, is restoring an unnamed cemetery in Milton Township containing about 15 graves, including some veterans of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.

1975: Charles G. “Buzz” Ridl, who resigned after seven years as head basketball coach of the University of Pittsburgh, is named director of alumni affairs at his alma mater, Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa.

The city of Youngstown is considering an appeal to the Civil Aeronautics Board to reverse a “severe deterioration” in air service at Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Robin Hartman of Lake-view is the only Mahoning Valley girl to win a state track title in Columbus, taking the Class AA low hurdles in 10.7 seconds.

1965: The National Safety Council reports 450 traffic deaths during the three-day Memorial Day weekend. Ohio had 27, second only to California with more than 50.

Clifford D. Smith, Sharon High School’s assistant football coach for 14 years, is named head coach with a three-year contract.

After years of complaints from Boardman Township residents about inadequate water supply and pressure, county commissioners have taken the first step toward getting a $700,000 system by July 1966.

1940: A helpful citizen sends Youngstown Police Chief John Turnbull a photograph of an unattended police cruiser parked beside a fire plug on a downtown street. Turnbull says he will use the photo as an object lesson for all police.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Ewing of Turner School-Ohltown Road celebrate their golden wedding anniversary wearing the suit and dress they wore when they wed May 29, 1890.

Sales-tax revenue for the state of Ohio for the first five months of 1940 is $17.8 million, a million more than the same period a year earlier.