Today is Sunday, May 16, the 137th day of 2004. 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

Today is Sunday, May 16, the 137th day of 2004. 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 1763, the English lexicographer, author and wit Samuel Johnson first meets his future biographer, James Boswell. In 1770, Marie Antoinette, age 14, marries the future King Louis VI 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 1960, a Big Four summit conference in Paris collapses on its opening day as the Soviet Union levels spy charges against the U.S. in the wake of the U2 incident. In 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. In 1977, five people are killed when a New York Airways helicopter, idling atop the Pan Am Building in midtown Manhattan, topples over, sending a huge rotor blade flying. In 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour completes its maiden voyage with a safe landing in the California desert.
May 16, 1979: Ohio insurance companies are singling out urban neighborhoods in which they refuse to write homeowners insurance, even though they deny the practice, says Rep. Benny Bonano, D-Cleveland.
After a heated debate, Salem City Council rejects by a 4-3 vote an ordinance authorizing the start of engineering work on the Phase I water improvement project.
Lindy Lauro, New Castle High School football coach, wins his first political victory with an impressive win in the Democratic nomination for Lawrence County commissioner. He will team with incumbent Democrat John A. Meehan, facing off against Republicans Frank Vitril and Paul Tanner.
May 16, 1964: Youngstown Mayor Anthony B. Flask asks United Air Lines to improve its air service at the Youngstown Municipal Airport, particularly to Washington and to Detroit, given the planned construction of a General Motors plant at Lordstown.
Vandals enter the Modern Builders Supply Inc., 810-816 Andrews Ave., damage office equipment and set the building on fire. Damage is estimated at $2,000.
More than 9,800 Trumbull County residents are collecting monthly retirement benefits from the Social Security Administration, a total surpassing both state and national averages.
Youngstown's 6th Ward Councilman John V. McCarthy requests legislation be drafted to stop payment on all work on the city controversial sewage treatment plant until defective sections are repaired.
May 16, 1954: Youngstowners turn out by the thousands to inspect military equipment downtown and at various military installations making the city's fifth annual Armed Forces Day observance a success.
Mahoning County Democratic Chairman Jack Sulligan is re-elected without opposition at the biennial organization meetings of the Mahoning County Central and Executive Committees in the Moose Hall.
Del Courtney, Youngstown's "official greeter" and prominent civic leader, announces his resignation as general manager of the Hotel Pick-Ohio. He plans to announce a new business connection after a brief vacation out West.
May 16, 1929: Five people well known in Youngstown and one from Alliance are among the 122 known dead from an explosion and fire at the Cleveland Clinic. The toll may reach 150. The Youngstowners are Miss Edith Morgan, a nurse; Jacob Stahl, Mrs. Charles Nadler, J. Barker Smith and Richard L. Collins. Oscar Bleshelt of Alliance also died.
Edsel Ford turns the first sod in work on the construction of a big new Ford factory on the banks of the Thamse River in Dagenham, Essex, England.
One hundred voices of the boys and girls glee clubs of the Warren G. Harding High School in Warren will be raised in song in a sacred concert at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Market and Front St.reet in Youngstown. The clubs have won favorable notice for their exceptionally fine work and have sung at Thiel and Hiram colleges.
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