Today is Wednesday, June 3, the 154th day of 2015. There are 211 days left in the year.

Today is Wednesday, June 3, the 154th day of 2015. There are 211 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

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

1935: The French liner Normandie sets a record on its maiden voyage, arriving in New York after crossing the Atlantic in just four days.

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.

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

1972: Sally J. Priesand is ordained as America’s first female rabbi at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati.

1989: Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, dies.

2005: U.S. military officials say no guard at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects had flushed a detainee’s Quran down the toilet, but disclosed there were instances in which Qurans were abused by guards, intentionally or accidentally.

2010: BP slices off a pipe with giant shears to make way for a cap in the latest bid to curtail the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

2014: President Barack Obama arrives in Warsaw, Poland, at the start of a three-country swing, pledging to boost U.S. military deployments and exercises throughout Europe.

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1990: W. Scott Stoner, right worshipful grand master of Masons in Pennsylvania, participates in the 25th anniversary of Wilmington Lodge 804 in New Wilmington, Pa.

Cardinal Mooney High School becomes the first Youngstown school to win a state track championship when the Cardinals score 28 points to capture the Division II crown at the 83rd state track meet in Columbus.

1975: More than 17,700 employees of the May Department Store Co., including 907 employees of Strouss in the Youngstown area, will share $903,000 in the company’s 1974 profit-sharing plan.

Dr. Saul Friedman, associate professor of history at Youngstown State University, is honored for his contribution to Jewish education at Temple El Emeth.

James Bellavia, biology teacher at Ursuline High School, is elected president of the Diocesan Confederation of Secondary Teachers, succeeding Anthony Costarella.

1965: Bill Santor, Ruth Doyle and Richard Brown score holes-in-one over the holiday weekend. Santor aces the No. 6 at Henry Stambaugh, Mrs. Doyle fires her ace on No. 13 at Mill Creek, and Brown aces the No. 3 hole at Mill Creek Par-three.

Jane Lyman of Youngs-town is awarded a grant in history by the National Defense Education Department. She will return to the University of Dayton to study U.S. foreign policy and American social and political history.

1940: William F. Maag, general manager of The Vindicator, is appointed by common pleas judges to fill the unexpired term of Edwin F. Miller as a trustee of The Rayen School.

More than 10 percent of Mahoning County’s 5,083 Works Progress Administration employees have been laid off because the WPA has nearly exhausted its appropriation for the current fiscal year.

Columnist Esther Hamilton reports traffic jams at Redondo Road and Ford Avenue, where the Victor Lumbards have 9,500 tulips in bloom.