Fascinating Ohio

June 30, 1973 - Engineer Robert Lange admires his nephew's coasting car in Boulder, Colo. Lange conceals an electric magnet in the nose to give it an edge in the upcoming International Soap Box Derby race in Akron. Lange's device attracts the car to the steel paddle starter, and the car blows away the competition. But when X-rays reveal the gadget, the victory cup goes to another, and Boulder is forever banned from future races.
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Gov. Bob Taft

June 29, 2004 – Ohio Gov. Bob Taft of Cincinnati likes to golf - even with lobbyists - and it comes back to haunt him as he fails to report numerous rounds as gifts. He didn't report a Teddy Bear from the Meigs County Commissioners, either. Taft pleads no contest to misdemeanor charges for not disclosing gifts and becomes the first governor charged with a crime while in office.
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Deadliest tornado

June 28, 1924 – The deadliest tornado in Ohio history tears through Lorain and Sandusky, killing 85. It formed on Lake Erie and its 25-mile path of destruction leveled 500 homes and damaged 1,000 others.
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Fascinating Ohio

June 27, 1844 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Mormon Church, also known as The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, leaves his temple at Kirtland, Ohio, for Carthage, Ill., where an angry and fearful mob would gather and kill him.
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Teflon

June 26, 1910 - Roy G. Plunkett is born in New Carlisle. He would graduate with a Phd from Ohio State University in 1936 and two years later, while working for DuPont, he creates a substance by accident that does not stick to the sides of the container holding it. Teflon is born.
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Fascinating Ohio

June 25, 1876 – Buckeye native George Armstrong Custer of New Rumley would become a brigadier general at the age of 23. He and his two rowdy brothers, Thomas and Boston, die on this day at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
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Fascinating Ohio

June 24, 1915 - More than 140 animal effigy pipes of turtles, beavers, bobcats, owls and hawks are excavated and shipped to the British Museum from the Tremper Mound, a Hopewell site at Ohio 73 and Ohio 104 north of Portsmouth.
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Fascinating Ohio

DAILY DOUBLE June 23, 1882 – A "Mystery Wave" swamps Cleveland. Logs were carried hundreds of feet inland and the forge at Cleveland Rolling Mill went out. June 23, 1976 – William DeHart Hubbard finishes his remarkable run through life. Cincinnatian Hubbard was the first African-American Olympic gold medal winner. The Walnut Hills High School grad won the long jump at the 1924 Paris Olympics, despite competing with an injured heel.
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The state seal

Want to see the scene used for the state seal? At U.S. Route 23 and U.S. Route 35 on the north side of Chillicothe is the restored mansion of former Ohio Gov. Thomas Worthington. Built in 1806-07, it’s a nice spot from which to check out the rolling hills of the Logan Range, the landscape on the state seal.
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Fascinating Ohio

June 21, 1985 - Ettore Boiardi, dies in Parma at the age of 87. He opened his first restaurant, Il Giardino d'Italia, in Cleveland in 1926. The spaghetti sauce was so good, he sold it carryout to customers in old milk bottles. Before long, the national brand Chef Boy Ar Dee was in millions of households nationwide. June 21, 1850 – Daniel Carter Beard, who would become the founder of the Boy Scouts of America, is born in Cincinnati.
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Summer Solstice Sunset Celebration

Plan your travel for tomorrow’s Summer Solstice Sunset Celebration, and an 8 p.m. hike at Ohio Serpent Mound – Adams County to catch the fading rays of the longest day of the year might be a nice place to visit.
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Washboard Music Festival

June 19: The two-day Washboard Music Festival, Ohio’s most unique music festival, begins in Logan. The Hocking County seat is home to the Columbus Washboard Co., the lone remaining washboard manufacturing company in the U.S. The festival always is held the two days before Father’s Day, so this date is a moving target.
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Carol Kane

June 18, 1952 – Carol Kane, star of Dog Day Afternoon, is born in Cleveland. She also portrayed Simka Dahblitz-Gravas, wife of Latka Gravas (Andy Kaufman) on the TV series Taxi and was Madame Morrible in Wicked, a Broadway musical.
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Ohio Express

June 17, 1968 – “Yummy, Yummy, Yummy” by the Ohio Express goes gold. The band hailed from Mansfield and were originally known as Sir Timothy & The Royals. This strange song would symbolize Bubble Gum Music and become the scourge of serious pop song writers everywhere.
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Fascinating Ohio

DAILY DOUBLE June 16, 1778 – Daniel Boone, encamped for several months about three miles north of Xenia, sees a war party forming of 450 Shawnee, escapes and travels 160 miles south in five days to lead the defense of Boonesborough, Ky., a town he founded. June 16, 1993 – Randy Van Dam of Kalamazoo, Mich., catches a 9.5-pound, 23.5 inch smallmouth bass from Lake Erie.
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The Toledo War.

DAILY DOUBLE
June 15, 1836 - The State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory agree to end a border skirmish called the Toledo War.

June 15, 1938 – Johnny Vander Meer throws a no-hitter in back-to-back starts, a major league baseball record that is unlikely to ever be broken as it will require a pitcher to throw three back-to-back no-hit games. Only 256 no-hitters have ever been thrown.

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Fascinating Ohio

June 14, 1990 – A flash flood on Wegee Creek and Pipe Creek in Belmont County kills 26 people as rain brings 4 inches an hour and creates a terrible six-foot wall of water that roared down those rural Ohio streams.
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Antonio L.A. Reid

June 13, 1976 – Antonio L.A. Reid hangs out around a 3rd St. Cincinnati recording studio where PB Stadium is today, begging to be recorded. A drummer, he co-creates The Deele, shakes off the immense rejection and rises to CEO of Arista, signing Mariah Carey, Toni Braxton, Usher, Outkast, Avril Lavigne, Pink, Kanye West and The Killers. Once he was just a kid with a dream, begging for a backer and studio time.
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George H. Sisler

June 12, 1939 - George H. Sisler of the small town of Manchester south of Akron is one of the first thirteen players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on this day, as the museum opens to the public and national acclaim. Sisler was a mechanical engineer with a degree from the University of Michigan, but decided to play baseball instead.
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Johnny Vander Meer

June 11, 1938 – Cincinnati Reds starter Johnny Vander Meer throws a no-hitter against the Boston Braves at Crosley Field. He threw left-handed and was the seldom-seen switch-hitting pitcher.
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Joe Nuxhall

June 10, 1944 – Southpaw teenager Joe Nuxhall at 15 becomes the youngest pitcher to play in a major league baseball game when he takes to the mound for the Cincinnati Reds. He would later say of that outing: “I was pitching against seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders, kids 13 and 14 years old. All of a sudden, I look up and there's Stan Musial. It was a very scary situation.”
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Ken Griffey Jr

June 9, 2008 – Ken Griffey Jr., who grew up in Kenwood, a suburb of Cincinnati, pounds a ball into the right field seats at Dolphin Stadium in Miami before a crowd of about 10,000 for the 600th homerun of his career. He joins Babe Ruth, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron at the milestone. Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds also hit 600 homeruns but unlike others in this elite club, they played under the influence of steroids.
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Fascinating Ohio

Enjoy spicy sausage and fresh-grilled peppers, cavatelli, eggplant rolatini and big platters of pasta at the annual Italian American Summer Festival on the first weekend in June at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds in Berea.
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Fascinating Ohio

June 7, 1927 – Cleveland brothers Fredrick G. and William M. Foberth are issued a patent for the pneumatic-powered windshield wiper. Go fast? So do the wipers. Go slow? So do the wipers. Eventually electric motors do away with pneumatic wipers but for a time, the Foberths are in high cotton.
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June 6, 1890: Bandleader Ted Lewis (Theodore Leopold Friedman) was born in Circleville. During the Roaring Twenties and the Depression, he became one of America’s top entertainers with his catchphrase “Is everybody happy?” June 6, 2004 – Not even a quarter of a pound, the long ear sunfish caught by Brian Zimmerman of Hartville in Big Darby Creek weighs .2 pounds and is just 6 ½ inches long -big enough to be a state record.
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Fascinating Ohio

June 5, 1895 – William Boyd is born in Hendrysburg, about 26 miles east of Cambridge. He became a silent film actor and would become a multi-millionaire after he purchased rights to his character, Hopalong Cassidy, then put the dozens of films on TV. A Hopalong Cassidy Museum in Cambridge is a tribute to Boyd and displays Hopalong gear and collectibles. Where is your old Hopalong cereal bowl?
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Fascinating Ohio

June 4, 1974: The Cleveland Indians forfeit a game to the Texas Rangers at cavernous Municipal Stadium because the crowd was uncontrollably rowdy due to the Indians’ 10-cent beer promotion to spur ticket sales.
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Fascinating Ohio

Ohio’s monumental Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks and Serpent Mound are on U.S. Department of Interior’s 14 U.S. cultural and natural areas that should be considered of World Heritage Status. The site is on Ohio 73 near Peebles (800-752-2757)
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Fascinating Ohio

June 2, 1927: Cleveland Mayor Carl Burton Stokes, the first African American elected mayor of a major U.S. city, is born. He grew up in public housing at Outhwaite Homes, was a high school drop-out but returned to school after a stint in the Army. Following his time as mayor, a term marked by corruption, Stokes became the first black anchorman in New York City as an anchor at WNBC-TV in 1972. He died April 3, 1996.
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Fascinating Ohio

June 1, 1808 - First U.S. land-grant university founded at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. About 150 years later the school gets a reputation as a party school because, well, because students tend to have a great, good time at OU. Go Bobcats!
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