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Today is Friday, June 3, the 155th day of 2016. 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.

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

1916: President Woodrow Wilson signs the National Defense Act of 1916, which, among other things, creates the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

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.

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

1992: Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton appears on “The Arsenio Hall Show,” where he plays “Heartbreak Hotel” on the saxophone.

2011: Former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards admits he had “done wrong” and hurt others but strongly denies breaking the law after federal prosecutors charged him with using $925,000 in under-the-table campaign contributions to hide his mistress and baby during his 2008 White House run. (After a 2012 trial in North Carolina, jurors acquitted Edwards on one count of accepting illegal campaign contributions and deadlocked on five other counts; prosecutors decided against retrying the case.)

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1991: The U.S. Census Bureau says Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties shrank during the 1980s in the category of young people entering the workforce, those between 18 and 24 years old, signaling future shortages in the workforce.

The city of Warren says Browning-Ferris Industries’ installation of a new filtering system on its medical-waste incinerator resulted in reductions in the discharge of lead and mercury in its wastewater. The discharges are within allowable limits, a dramatic change from before the filter’s installation in October 1990.

1976: The Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce proposes that city council submit to the voters either an increase in the income tax or a property tax to finance repairs and improvements to bridges in the city.

Marlin D. “Whitey” Ford is elected president of United Auto Workers Local 1112 at the Lordstown Assembly Division in a runoff election with John Spain.

Steve V. Vivo Jr., owner of Vivo Iron & Steel Co., is named Boss of the Year by the Mahoning Valley Chapter of the American Business Women’s Association.

1966: The Ursuline High School graduating class has five sets of twins: Marilyn and Marion Poidmore, John and Mary Celeste Sturgeon, Nancy and Kathy McEvoy, Chuck and Pattie Machuga and Joe and Mike Marquard.

The Mahoning County Manpower Residence Training Center, which will be located at the Youngstown Air Base, receives a $33,059 grant that will be used to train 75 people.

James Rhinehart, Ohio coordinator of the John Birch Society, tells the Downtown Optimist Club that the society preaches loyalty to God, country and family.

1941: The nation mourns baseball great Lou Gehrig, who died after a two-year battle with a rare and incurable disease.

More than 1,500 men and women volunteers will be calling every home in the Mahoning Valley seeking donations to the United Defense Fund to finance various programs for the armed forces.

The Salem Board of Education reappoints 81 employees, all with 10 percent salary reductions meant to save the board $14,000.