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Today is Wednesday, June 1, the 153rd day of 2016. There are 213 days left in the year.

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On this date:

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.

1916: Louis Brandeis takes his seat as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first Jewish American to serve on the nation’s highest bench.

1926: Actress Marilyn Monroe is born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles.

1955: The romantic comedy “The Seven Year Itch,” starring Marilyn Monroe, 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.

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.

2006: Six world powers, including the U.S., agree on a package of incentives to persuade Iran to halt its uranium- enrichment program.

2015: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham opens his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

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1991: Nine employees of a Veterans Administration medical center in Pittsburgh are disciplined after a psychiatric patient disappeared and was missing for 11/2 days before being found in a stuck elevator.

Fred Cleary, superintendent of Fairhaven School in Niles for 16 years, resigns amid controversy over his $76,000 contract and ongoing scrutiny by the Trumbull County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities over some of his decisions.

The Nevel Sisters of Youngstown, Versa Records recording artists, will be featured in a gospel music concert at Nevels Temple Church of God in Christ at 939 Elm St.

1976: Two Hiram College students are killed and seven other people, including four from the Roger Gillespie family of McDonald, are injured in a three-car crash near Windham. Dead are Richard Deltorto, 20, of Margate, Fla., and Howard M. Wells, 19, of Cleveland Heights.

Three men wearing dark coats and stockings over their heads take a night-deposit bag at gunpoint from the First National Bank branch in the Hermitage Plaza.

Michael E. Waldman, 29, of North Bloomfield is killed when his motorcycle collides with a truck at Braceville-Robinson Road and Route 5 in Trumbull County.

1966: Dr. Howard Hanson, retired director of the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, urges 810 graduates of Youngstown University to shun materialism.

A Salem Senior Citizen Club survey shows that elderly residents believe the city should have low-cost apartments available for senior citizens. Suggested monthly rent: $35.

A special exam is set for potential police cadets in Warren, which wants to fill 10 openings in the police department.

1941: Dolly Heberding of Canfield, a student at Ohio State University and a licensed pilot, will compete for the title of Miss Collegiate Aviation against 66 other coeds from across the country.

Members of Warren City Council complain that a defense housing project to be known as Westlawn on the city’s West Side will be an eyesore. Each unit will cost $2,500, less, they say, than is needed to build attractive housing.