Today is Tuesday, May 6, the 126th day of 2003. There are 239 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Tuesday, May 6, the 126th day of 2003. There are 239 days left in the year. On this date in 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible "Hindenburg" burns and crashes in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.
In 1889, the Paris Exposition formally opens, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower. In 1910, Britain's King Edward VII dies. In 1935, the Works Progress Administration begins operating. In 1942, during World War II, some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrender to the Japanese. In 1954, medical student Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in three minutes, 59.4 seconds.
May 6, 1978: The East Ohio Gas Co. will spend $2.6 million in the Mahoning Valley as part of a $28 million capital improvement program.
Elements of the 910th Tactical Fighter Group at Youngstown Municipal Airport are deployed to Indiana and Massachusetts in the biggest national readiness test ever ordered by the Air Force Reserve.
In a letter to Youngstown Mayor J Phillip Richley, the Department of Housing and Urban Development threatens to cut off all fourth year Community Development Act funds to the city until "serious deficiencies" in HUD programs administered by the city are corrected.
May 6, 1963: Skilled safecrackers burn open an ADT-wired safe without setting off the alarm at Schwebel Baking Co. and escape with $7,000.
"A metropolitan form of government such as that in Dade County, Fla., might be the answer to the problems of the Youngstown metropolitan area," says Edward G. Conroy, executive vice president of the Youngstown Metropolitan Area Development Citizens Committee.
David Wilson, 7, misses the 8 a.m. First Communion service at St. Dominic Church after being struck by a car as he crossed Southern Blvd. But after being checked out at South Side Hospital, he proudly limped up the aisle at the 11 a.m. Mass with his family and received First Communion.
May 6, 1953: Mayor Charles G. Henderson, Republican, seeking a fourth term, will meet Frank X. Kryzan, Democratic nominee for mayor, following the primary election. Republican John F. Gillespie will face Democrat Richard J. Barrett for president of council.
Three Ohio Edison linemen are electrocuted and two other men are shocked in an accident on McKinley Heights-Kiefer Road near Girard Lake.
The Youngstown area's primary elections are televised for the first time, with WFMJ-TV interrupting its regular programs throughout the evening to show election returns on a large board prepared for the event and explained by William Crooks and Jack LeGoff.
May 6, 1928: The body of Thomas Gordon, 27, of New Castle, who leaped into the Shenango River April 23 following a pistol fight with police, is found floating in the river.
Beautiful trained horses, disciplined jungle animals and unusually thrilling aerial performers delight the crowd at the Sells-Fluto Circus, the second tented show of the season to open at Wright Field.