YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 1

Today is Thursday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2017. There are 213 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1792: Kentucky becomes the 15th 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.

1927: Lizzie Borden, accused but acquitted of the 1892 ax murders of her father, Andrew, and her stepmother, Abby, dies in Fall River, Mass., at age 66.

1967: The Beatles album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is released, as is David Bowie’s debut album, titled “David Bowie.”

1980: Cable News Network debuts.

1997: Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, is severely burned in a fire set by her 12-year-old grandson in her Yonkers, N.Y., apartment (she died three weeks later).

2009: Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330 carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashes into the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of everyone on board.

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1992: Youngstown State University’s Managing for the Future Task Force issues a report recommending that the YSU Board of Trustees remain a policy-making body and not meddle in day-to-day operations.

A poll shows that both Republicans and Democrats in Mahoning and Trumbull counties would support a half-percent sales tax to attract to the Mahoning Valley a massive Defense Department financial center that would employ 7,000.

The new Toys “R” Us warehouse opens on Salt Springs Road with an initial workforce of about 100. (It closed in 2014 with a workforce of about 70.)

1977: Mahoning County Clerk of Courts Anthony Vivo files a $120,000 lawsuit against Butler, Wick & Co., claiming his investments were mishandled.

In a case originating from the Ohio Works of U.S. Steel in Youngstown, the U.S. Supreme Court rules 8-0 that states may deny unemployment benefits to workers who are laid off because of a labor dispute at one of the employer’s supplying companies.

1967: Mary Rivers of Youngstown, a cleaning woman who snatched 4-year-old Danny Zublena from a flaming bed at South Side Hospital in 1966, is awarded the Carnegie Bronze Medal of Heroism.

Edwin H. Gott, who received part of his training in Youngstown steel operations, is the new president of United States Steel Corp., the world’s largest steel producer.

A branch of Commercial Bank of Salem is robbed of $14,000 by a man who called the bank and claimed to be aiming a high-powered rifle with a scope on it at the bank. The money was placed in a sack and picked up at a phone booth.

1942: A freak wave from 4 to 20 feet high swept 60 miles of the coast of Lake Erie from Bay Village to Geneva, killing seven people, three from Warren. The Warren victims were Merle E. Diehl, 45; Orlo Lenney, 29, and his wife, Esther Lenney, 22.

Under wartime regulations, The Vindicator is reducing its deliveries to newsstands outside of downtown to two a day, the “Early” and “Stocks-Sport” editions.

E.W. Vickers leads 26 hikers on a new Mill Creek Park foot trail from the flowing well at Shields Road to a limestone spring. Lindley Vickers points out interesting trees, plants, birds and insects along the way.

Youngstowners find relief from humid heat in the 90s when rain brings a 16-degree drop in temperature in one hour.