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Today is Monday, June 13, the 165th day of 2016. There are 201 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1842: Queen Victoria becomes the first British monarch to ride on a train, traveling from Slough Railway Station to Paddington in 25 minutes.

1927: Aviation hero Charles Lindbergh is honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

1957: The Mayflower II, a replica of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America in 1620, arrives at Plymouth, Mass., after a nearly two-month journey from England.

1966: The Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that criminal suspects have to be informed of their constitutional right to consult with an attorney and to remain silent.

1971: The New York Times begins publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of America’s involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967 that had been leaked to the paper by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg.

2015: Hillary Rodham Clinton formally kicked off her presidential campaign with an outdoor rally in New York where she asks supporters to join her in building an America “where we don’t leave anyone out, or anyone behind.”

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1991: Boardman resident and former San Francisco Giants pitcher Dave Dravecky will have his left arm amputated to alleviate chronic infection and nerve damage. Dravecky, one of baseball’s great comeback stories, has had three operations to remove cancerous growths from the arm.

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda takes a side trip from Pittsburgh, where his team is playing the Pirates, to the Nemenz Foodland in Boardman, where he served samples of his pasta sauce to shoppers.

The Ohio Supreme Court rules that a lawsuit brought against the state by Deborah York of Canfield can go forward. Bruce York died in 1986 when his motorcycle crashed during a Ohio State Highway Patrol chase. The suit claims the OSHP had no reason to be chasing York.

1976: Youngstown Steel Door Co. buys the vacant 190,000-square-foot industrial plant at 460 N. Meridian Road and plans a major expansion of its Youngstown facilities, says Bernard Scheidler, Steel Door vice president-finance. Steel Door employs about 750 people and has had as much as twice that many when demand for rail cars is high.

Joseph Palmer, manager of Ohio Bureau of Employment Services in Warren, says his office is bracing for as many as 1,100 applicants for unemployment compensation from two closed facilities, the Halsey-Taylor drinking-fountain plant in Warren and the Rockwell International bumper plant in Newton Falls.

Mario Grilli, 47, of Grove City, Pa., a teacher in Hubbard who received a heart from a 15-year-old traffic accident victim April 22, is transferred from Stanford University Hospital to an apartment in Mountain View, Calif.

1966: Warren Mayor Raymond Schryver delays signing an ordinance requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets after motorcycle shop owners complain.

Four-year-old Daniel Zublena of Youngstown dies of burns almost a month after sparks from a toy ray gun ignited his oxygen tent while he was a patient in South Side Hospital.

Mahoning Valley school superintendents meet to discuss problems they’ll face when their districts are required to provide busing for parochial school students in the fall.

1941: Youngstown district mills are operating at 93 percent of capacity and Shenango Valley plants at 96 percent, the highest in 16 years.

Ben Hogan, at 2 under par, moves into the lead of the $5,000 Mahoning Valley Open Golf Tournament.

Youngstown Democratic Women are selling “I Am an American” buttons to commemorate Flag Day.