YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 1

Today is Saturday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2019. There are 213 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1533: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, is crowned as Queen Consort of England.

1792: Kentucky becomes the 15th state.

1796: Tennessee becomes the 16th state.

1926: Actress Marilyn Monroe is born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles.

1939: Mexico officially abolishes the siesta.

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

1968: Blind and deaf author-lecturer Helen Keller dies at 87.

1980: Cable News Network debuts.

2008: Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent dies in Paris at 71.

2014: Ann B. Davis, 88, who became America’s favorite and most famous housekeeper on television’s “The Brady Bunch,” dies in San Antonio, Texas.

2017: President Donald Trump declares he is pulling the U.S. from the landmark Paris climate agreement.

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1994: Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman Don Hanni Jr. says he will not seek re-election, clearing the way for Michael Morley to become the new chairman.

The Mahoning Valley lost 3,000 jobs between 1990 and 1993, but has added 6,000 jobs between June 1993 and March 1994, the second-highest job gain, percentage wise, among Ohio metropolitan areas.

Youngstown Finance Director David Bozanich is questioning the cost estimates for renovating the Higbee department store complex on West Federal Street downtown into a government center.

1979: Car haulers stay on the job at Anchor Motor Fright in Lordstown after Teamsters reach a contract extension with car-hauling companies hours before a strike was to begin.

The Richley administration and Youngstown safety forces reach a tentative agreement on a wage package that will increase police and fire salaries by 5 percent in July and an additional 5 percent in October.

The advisory committee of the Esther Hamilton Alias Santa Claus Scholarship Fund selects Patricia Ann Magda of Ursuline and Karen Leah Fortney of Cardinal Mooney to receive four-year scholarships to Youngstown State University.

1969: Fifty-three North Lima seniors will receive the last diplomas issued by North Lima School District. Next year’s graduates will receive diplomas from South Range School District following the merger of North Lima and Greenford.

Youngstown’s public swimming pools will not open until June 25 because supervisory personnel are tied up with the extended school year in the city.

The Youngstown Symphonic Band directed by Paul Rossi will present a concert on the Canfield Village Green. Dave Wetmore, a senior at Canfield High School, will be the guest trumpet soloist.

1944: Some downtown Youngstown stores may abandon their Monday night opening hours temporarily to give their employees time to work in their Victory Gardens.

About 150 employees of the blooming mills of the Campbell plant of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. are affected by a strike. Union leaders said men refuse to work because the company failed to furnish “spell men.”

Dan Roche, manager of Western Union, initiates messenger girls. For some time he has been using elderly men, who he says are “the best messengers we’ve ever had.”