Local history

50 years ago: June 3, 1976

Youthpower Inc., Michael Cassidy director, a nonprofit job referral service for young adults, opened that week for the summer in the Seller’s Building, 1410 11th Ave., from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.

25 years ago: June 3, 2001

A class action lawsuit required Norfolk Southern Railroad to pay millions of dollars to land owners along its tracks in 16 states for installing telecommunication lines along their property. Blair County alone had 602 eligible parcels.

10 years ago: June 3, 2016

Rabbi Audrey Korotkin and the Rev. Marlys Hershberger spoke at the Wear Orange for National Gun Violence Awareness Day held by area women at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg.

— Compiled by Tim Doyle

World history

Today is Wednesday, June 3, the 154th day of 2026. There are 211 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On June 3, 1943, an altercation between U.S. Navy sailors and young Mexican Americans on the streets of Los Angeles led to several days of clashes known as the Zoot Suit Riots as white mobs attacked Mexican Americans across the city, injuring more than 150 people.

Also on this date:

– In 1844, the last confirmed specimens of the great auk, a flightless bird, were killed on Eldey island, near Iceland.

– In 1888, the poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner.

– In 1935, the French liner SS Normandie set a record on its maiden voyage, arriving in New York after crossing the Atlantic in just four days.

– In 1937, Edward, The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony in Monts, France.

– In 1965, during the Gemini 4, spaceflight, astronaut Edward H. White became the first American to “walk” in space.

– In 1989, Chinese army troops entered Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to begin a crackdown on student-led pro-democracy demonstrations, crushing their movement.

– The Associated Press