YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, June 2, the 154th day of 2016. There are 212 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

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, and President Calvin Coolidge signs, a measure 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.

1981: The Japanese video-arcade game “Donkey Kong” is released by Nintendo.

1997: Timothy McVeigh is convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. (McVeigh was executed in June 2001.)

2011: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announces his bid for the Republican presidential nomination during an appearance in New Hampshire.

2015: President Barack Obama signs the USA Freedom Act, extending three expiring surveillance provisions of the 9/11-era USA Patriot Act.

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1991: The Stanley Cup is on display at the DeBartolo Corp. headquarters in Boardman after the Pittsburgh Penguins, owned by Edward DeBartolo Sr., wins the National Hockey League trophy. Four Super Bowl trophies from Edward DeBartolo Jr.’s San Francisco 49ers also are on display there.

The Mahoning County Area Task Force on AIDS estimates that more than 300 cases of AIDS may exist in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties.

About a third of the newsprint being purchased by The Vindicator is recycled, meeting a commitment made by General Manager Mark A. Brown.

1976: A spokesman for the Ohio State Medical Society says that if medical-malpractice rates double, some physicians might refuse to perform high-risk surgeries or retire or move from the state.

A major program to revamp and enlarge the Youngstown Municipal Airport terminal to improve airline service and present a better image for the city is unveiled by Edmund J. Salata, city engineer.

More than 1,000 communications workers leave their jobs in Youngstown, East Liverpool, Salem and Columbiana to protest Ohio Bell’s use of service representatives to assemble and sell telephones in their new retail stores.

1966:Gov. James A. Rhodes comes to Youngstown to present a copy of the charter of the new Mahoning County Community College to board members before an audience of 700 at Stambaugh Auditorium.

Room rates at St. Elizabeth Hospital and the Youngstown Hospital Association’s North and South Side units are increased several dollars to cover pay raises for nurses. Rates will range from $21 a day in a ward to $34 a day in a private room.

Union Township schools near New Castle, Pa., cut the tax rate by 6 mills and slash $42,000 from the district’s budget in response to taxpayer complaints.

1941: New citizens and their families – 500 strong – attend the “I Am an American” program at The Rayen School.

The Hubbard Junior Chamber of Commerce will stage a donkey baseball game and donkey derby at the Fifth Avenue field.

In response to anticipated Defense Department needs, Detroit is planning new, smaller car models for 1942. They’ll be lighter in weight, have fewer frills and will get better gas mileage.