Today is Tuesday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2003. There are 232 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2003. There are 232 days left in the year. On this date in 1981, Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.
In 1607, the English colony at Jamestown, Va., is settled. In 1842, composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, who collaborated with Sir William Gilbert in writing 14 comic operas, is born in London. In 1846, the United States declares that a state of war already exists against Mexico. In 1917, three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, report seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary. In 1918, the first U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of an airplane, are introduced. On some of the stamps, the airplane is printed upside-down, making them collector's items. In 1940, in his first speech as prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill tells the House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." In 1954, President Eisenhower signs into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act. In 1954, the musical play "The Pajama Game" opens on Broadway. In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon's limousine is battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1985, a confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ends as police drop an explosive onto the group's headquarters; 11 people die in the resulting fire.
May 13, 1978: Niles police are looking for a gunman who held up a clerk from the Thrift Drug Store while she was making a night deposit at the Niles Bank Co. in the Village Center. The clerk refused to release the bag until the gunman stuck a revolver in her face. Four witnesses in a car gave chase, but backed off when the robber fired two shots at them.
Total enrollment for Warren city schools has dropped by nearly 500 in a year, standing at 11,080 in the public elementary, junior high and high schools.
Four Youngstown firemen escape possible injury or death when a section of roof collapsed during a two-alarm fire of suspicious nature at the Ace Office Desk Co., 71 E. Indianola Ave.
May 13, 1963: Three 15-year-old youths are caught on the roof of Hayes Junior High School after apparently breaking in through a second floor window. They had taken ball point pens, a cigarette lighter, pencils and a paddle.
An undetermined amount of frozen meats and cigarettes and change from coin-operated machines are taken during a burglary at the Hot Dog Circus on South Ave.
Three Youngstown district Air Force men are taking part in the space flight of Astronaut Gordon Cooper. Maj. Rudolph Hamborksy is responsible for declaring the system ready for launch; Airman 1st Class Robert C. Guy will record telemetry data from the craft, Faith 7, and Airman 2nd Class C. Lorenzo Zarlengo will be working security in the launch area.
May 13, 1953: Mayor Charles P. Henderson lists 15 improvements that he says the Democratic city council has blocked and he pledges to appeal to public-spirited citizens to get behind his program in a spirit of nonpartisanship.
The entire chair division of General Fireproofing Corp., involving some 900 workers, is shut down as a result of a walkout over reclassification of jobs that brought a 10-cent hourly reduction in pay.
At least two Youngstowners narrowly escape death in Waco, Texas, when a tornado devastated 36 blocks of the downtown district, killing 88 persons. Air Force Sgt. Jack Nystrom and Baylor University student Joseph Dulay both called home to Youngstown to say they are safe.
May 13, 1928: The Youngstown East High School debate team wins the state title in Columbus, defeating Marietta, two-to-one, in the finals.
Work is expected to begin by the end of June on the Meander Dam, which will impound 10 billion gallons of water to furnish Youngstown and Niles with a pure, wholesome water supply.
Trumbull County Prosecutor Lynn B. Griffith says he will try bootlegger James Munsene a fourth time after Munsene's third trial on charges that he attempted to bribe the Trumbull County sheriff ends in a hung jury. Munsene's defense lawyer, Clarence Darrow, who headed East immediately after the trial's end, says he will be back in Ashtabula County to meet with Judge Charles R. Sargent.