Today is Friday, May 16, the 136th day of 2003. There are 229 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, May 16, the 136th day of 2003. There are 229 days left in the year. On this date in 1929, the first Academy Awards are presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The movie "Wings" wins best production, while Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor are named best actor and best actress.
In 1770, Marie Antoinette, age 14, marries the future King Louis XVI of France, who is 15. In 1866, Congress authorizes minting of the 5-cent piece. In 1868, the Senate fails by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it takes its first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment against him. In 1920, Joan of Arc is canonized in Rome. In 1946, the musical "Annie Get Your Gun" opens on Broadway. In 1948, the body of CBS News correspondent George Polk is found in Solonica Harbor in Greece, several days after he'd left his hotel for an interview with the leader of a Communist militia.
May 16, 1978: The first eight-hour workday in Youngstown City Hall is met with a great deal of grumbling, with some employees sitting at their desks in defiance, doing no obvious work, between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. At 5 sharp, virtually all bolted from their desks into a drizzling rain.
Members of the "Save Our Silsby" committee announce that they have been able to buy back East Liverpool's 1896 Silsby steam-powered fire pumper that was sold May 1 to two Geauga County men for $995 after seven months of private negotiations with Mayor H.A. Tullis. The repurchase price was not released.
Four more Youngstown area residents testify in the Cleveland federal court trial of Ronald Carabbia as alibi witnesses, saying they saw Carabbia in the Youngstown area at times that would have made it impossible for him to participate in the bombing death of racketeer Danny Greene.
May 16, 1963: Youngstown City Council reluctantly approves a new contract with the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District that boosts the wholesale cost of water sold to the city. Youngstown will pay about $16,500 more a year for bulk water under the new contract.
City taxpayers will be forced to pay about $2,500 more for slag under a contract approved by the Board of Control with Youngstown Building Material and Supply Co. than it would have under a lower bid submitted by Habuda Coal & amp; Supply, a Habuda spokesman alleges.
Most of the State Theater Co.'s outstanding common stock is sold to Arrel Friedman, an area real estate dealer, for $196,884, says an attorney for the theater company. Friedman bought 97 percent of the State shares.
May 16, 1953: Youngstown, at least the thousands downtown, take the first air raid test since World War II in stride, reacting with curiosity, a comment on the noise and a quick return to normal routine.
Some 85,000 customers in the Youngstown area of Ohio Bell Telephone Co. are going to have to start dialing seven digits to make local calls, a two-letter exchange followed by five numbers.
"There is probably no city in this nation that is making a greater contribution to the defense of free people than you who live in this arsenal of steel and iron," says Maj. Gen. Homer L. Sanders, speaking at the Armed Forces Day luncheon at the YMCA.
May 16, 1928: The Sharon Pressed Steel Co. plant at Wheatland, idle for four years since the failure of the Cleveland Discount Co. and Josiah Kirby, is sold by the Cleveland Securities Co. to Joseph Breenbohn's Sons Iron and Steel Co. of St. Louis, Mo., for $63,500.
Archbishop Edward A. Mooney, papal delegate to India, arrives in Youngstown on an Erie train for a visit to his birthplace. He had arrived in New York only a day earlier and told the small group there to greet him that he was anxious to see his mother.