YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 3

Today is Saturday, June 3, the 154th day of 2017. There are 211 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

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, which creates the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC).

2012: A Dana Air MD-83 jetliner carrying 153 people crashes on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board and at least 10 people on the ground.

2016: Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight boxing champion whose fast fists and irrepressible personality transcended sports and captivated the world, dies at a hospital in Scottsdale, Ariz., at age 74.

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1992: Howland Police Chief Thomas Altiere defeats four-term Trumbull County Sheriff Richard Jakmas in the Democratic primary.

Trumbull County voters reject a 0.25-percent sales tax increase.

Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton easily defeats California Gov. Jerry Brown in the Ohio Democratic primary, assuring him of the Democratic nomination for president.

Veteran Mahoning County Commissioners John A. Palermo and Leonard Yurcho suffer stunning defeats in the Democratic primary to David Engler and Frank Lordi.

State Rep. Ronald V. Gerberry of Austintown defeats Rep. Joseph J. Vukovich of Poland in a Democratic face-off for the redrawn 65th House district.

1977: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will provide $2.2 million over five years in rent subsidies to convert the Sheridan Inn off Meridian Road into senior-citizen housing. The Catholic Diocese of Youngstown will oversee conversion of the building, which operated as a hotel for only three years.

The Ohio House Judiciary committee approves legislation authorizing a pay raise for Ohio judges. Supreme Court justices will see their salaries increase from $40,000 to $53,000; common pleas judges from $20,000 to $29,000, and municipal court judges from a maximum of $31,000 to $38,750.

The Ohio Senate sends to the House a bill spawned by the energy crisis that would pave the way for exploratory natural-gas drilling in Lake Erie.

1967: Only 28 of 58 applicants who took the Civil Service test for Youngstown patrolman get passing grades.

An 18-year-old Powers Way girl is seriously injured when a teenage armed-robbery suspect fleeing from police smashes into her car at Gibson Street and Indianola Avenue. Linda Sue Leyman, is in serious condition at South Side Hospital.

A box containing $1,035 in prize money for a Youngstown women’s bowling league is snatched from its treasurer’s car shortly after she withdrew it from a Mahoning National Bank branch.

Royal Oaks gets six runs in the first inning and goes on to defeat Commercial Shearing 9-4 in the Uptown Kiwanis League.

1942: Retail merchants are asking Vindicator readers to fill out a poll to tell them whether downtown stores should stay open one night a week.

Declarations of war on Romani, Bulgaria and Hungary will block citizenship for 175 aliens from those countries who have filed for final papers in Mahoning County.

Joseph G. Butler III is named chairman of the radio committee of the Office of Civilian Defense, succeeding the Rev. F.B. McAllister, who is leaving for a pastorate in Cincinnati.