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Today is Monday, May 30, the 151st day of 2016. There are 215 days left in the year. This is the Memorial Day observance.

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On this date:

1536: England’s King Henry VIII marries his third wife, Jane Seymour, 11 days after the king’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, was beheaded for treason and adultery.

1911: The first Indy 500 takes place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; the winner was Ray Harroun, who drove a Marmon Wasp for more than 61/2 hours at an average speed of 74.6 mph and collected a prize of $10,000.

1922: The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., is dedicated in a ceremony attended by President Warren G. Harding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln.

1937: Ten people are killed when police fire on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago.

2006: A jury in Rockville, Md., convicts John Allen Muhammad of six of the 10 Washington-area sniper killings. (Although sentenced to life in prison for the Maryland killings, Muhammad was executed in November 2009 for a slaying in Virginia.)

2011: Jim Tressel, who had guided Ohio State to its first national football title in 34 years, resigns amid NCAA violations from a scandal involving five players and the owner of a tattoo parlor that sullies the image of one of the country’s top football programs.

2015: Vice President Joe Biden’s son, former Delaware attorney general Beau Biden, diea at age 46 of brain cancer.

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1991: Children at the Colonial Villa Estates trailer park in Goshen Township may be without a place to play after their playground is found to be contaminated with mirex, a suspected carcinogen, that was manufactured at the former Nease Chemical plant near Salem.

Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge John Stuart rules that Omar Provitt will be eligible to play football for Warren Harding High School in the fall, despite being suspended for the remainder of his junior year over an incident of hazing a substitute teacher.

Rebecca Tally, a member of Students for a Healthier Planet, presents a petition containing 3,000 signatures to YSU President Neil D. Humphrey asking the university to convert from chemical to organic pesticides and fertilizers on campus.

1976: Ohio’s real-estate exemptions for farmers has lopped $9.7 million from Mahoning County’s total tax valuation, reducing revenue for 18 school districts in the county by $282,000.

The Rev. Msgr. Donald J. Reagan, pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church in Warren, is awaiting release of an album of liturgical music he has composed, “Forever Will I Sing,” by Alba House Communications of Canfield.

Boardman police arrest 24 people in overnight raids, including 10 juveniles, on various drug charges and confiscated drugs valued at $15,000.

1966: Unseasonably cool weather mars the holiday weekend for many Ohioans, but it may have been a factor in keeping the highway death toll down. On Sunday the count was 10, against a predicted 38 deaths.

Mrs. Ruth Notzen of Youngstown and her 5-year-old son escape with bruises after falling over a cliff on East Gorge Trail in Mill Creek Park.

1941: Early congressional action is expected on the 1941 flood-control bill, which authorizes construction of Berlin Reservoir at an estimated cost of $4.8 million.

Youngstown Water Department employees call off a threatened strike after city council authorizes raises of $10 a week for salaried employees and 15 cents an hour for hourly workers.

Chris J. Cunningham, national commander, and C.H. Buchanan, state commander, will attend the state convention of the Marine Crops League in Youngstown in June. More than 1,000 delegates are expected.