Joseph Smith, Jr.

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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George Armstrong Custer

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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Tremper Mound

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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DAILY DOUBLE

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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Chef Boy Ar Dee

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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DAILY DOUBLE

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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Flash flood

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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Italian American Summer Festival

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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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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William Boyd

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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William Boyd

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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10-cent beer

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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Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks and Serpent Mound

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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Carl Burton Stokes

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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Go Bobcats!

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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