YEARS AGO FOR JUNE 3

Today is Monday, June 3, the 154th day of 2019. There are 211 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1781: Capt. Jack Jouett begins riding his horse some 40 miles from Louisa County, Va., to Charlottesville, where Gov. Thomas Jefferson and other politicians are located, to warn of approaching British troops who intend to take them prisoner.

1861: Illinois Sen. Stephen A. Douglas, the Democratic presidential nominee in the 1860 election, dies in Chicago of typhoid fever; he was 48.

1965: Astronaut Edward H. White becomes the first American to “walk” in space during the flight of Gemini 4.

1989: Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, dies. On the same day, Chinese army troops begin their sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations.

2008: Barack Obama claims the Democratic presidential nomination.

2016: Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali dies in Scottsdale, Ariz., at 74.

2017: A white van slams into pedestrians on London Bridge, killing eight people.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Ted Sanders, superintendent of the Ohio Department of Education, says the state’s ninth -grade proficiency test, which every graduating senior must pass, should be toughened, but not just yet.

Judge Mary Cacioppo, who sentenced Columbiana County Treasurer Ardel Strabala to 18 months in prison for violating Ohio ethics laws by giving control of public money to his son, says other Ohio treasurers who wrote to the court in support of reducing Strabala’s sentence “apparently didn’t understand the message” behind the sentence” – that ethics laws must be respected.

Some 3,500 workers at General Motors and Chrysler technology centers walk off the job in protest of the companies’ outsourcing of parts production to outside vendors. They carry signs reading “Defend the American Dream.”

1979: Some 600 people of all ages participate in the Strouss Fun Run, proceeds of which benefit youth activities. Rich Kempe was first in the 5-mile race, and Sandra Graham was the first woman to finish. Rick March and Tammy Tarka were first in the 2-mile race.

Volkswagen of America, flush with the success of its first U.S. plant at New Stanton, Pa., is looking for a site for a second plant.

Anthony Julian, director of Youngstown’s Office of Consumer Affairs, wants to see more owner-operated gas stations and says major oil companies are making that more difficult.

1969: Frank Leseganich is sworn in as director of District 26, United Steel Workers of America in Washington, D.C. Local supporters of Leseganich complained they were not allowed to witness the ceremony.

Mahoning County commissioners apply to the Ohio Water Department Authority for a $7.8 million grant to construct a 10-million-gallon-per-day sewage treatment plant.

Revamping of Youngstown’s Central Square is postponed until fall to permit private developers around the square to complete plans for their building programs.

1944: Three recently established bookie establishments, two of them downtown, are raided simultaneously by Sheriff Ralph Elser and his deputies.

Police and Office of Price Administration investigators are seeking distributors of thousands of illegally obtained gasoline coupons being circulated in the Youngstown area.

Diplomas are presented to 124 graduates of Youngstown College by Dr. Howard Jones, president of the college. An honorary doctorate is bestowed on Frank Purnell, who began as a hall boy in the mill and rose to be president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.