Today is Monday, May 24, the 145th day of 2004. There are 221 days left in the year. On this date in
Today is Monday, May 24, the 145th day of 2004. There are 221 days left in the year. On this date in 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse transmits the message, "What hath God wrought!" from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore as he formally opens America's first telegraph line.
In 1819, Queen Victoria is born in London. In 1881, some 200 people die when the Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London, Ontario. In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, is opened to traffic. In 1941, the German battleship Bismarck sinks the British dreadnought Hood in the North Atlantic. In 1958, United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service. In 1962, astronaut Scott Carpenter becomes the second American to orbit the Earth as he flies aboard Aurora Seven. In 1976, Britain and France open transatlantic Concorde service to Washington. In 1977, in a surprise move, the Kremlin ousts Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny from the Communist Party's ruling Politburo. In 1980, Iran rejects a call by the World Court in The Hague to release the American hostages. In 1994, four men convicted of bombing New York's World Trade Center are each sentenced to 240 years in prison. In 2001, a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that schools can be sued when officials fail to stop pupils from sexually harassing one another.
May 24, 1979: "I'll never close the Youngstown Works," says U.S. Steel's new No. 1 man, Chairman David M. Roderick. "If it's ever closed, it will be by other forces -- economics or the EPA." Roderick was interviewed in New York by Vindicator Business Editor George R. Reiss during the annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute.
The Ecumenical Coalition of the Mahoning Valley is abandoning its efforts to reopen idle mills at Jones & amp; Laughlin's Campbell Works, but will remain active in other efforts to secure jobs in the area, says the Rev. Edward Stanton, executive director.
A 67-year-old Austintown woman asleep in the bedroom of her home is savagely beaten by an intruder, from whom she escaped. Her home was then set afire.
May 24, 1964: The Rev. Eugene C. Beach, minister of First Christian Church, speaks on "The Power to See Life Through" at Youngstown University's 42nd baccalaureate service, held in C.J. Strouss Memorial Auditorium. There are 652 graduates.
The Woodrow Wilson High School Band provides a musical sendoff for more than 1,500 members of safety patrols on their annual baseball excursion to Cleveland from the Erie Lackawanna Railroad depot.
Six mathematics and physics majors in the graduating class of Youngstown University are awarded assistantships for graduate work at various universities. They are Taras Horbachewsky, Stephen L. Kozarich, James W. Leffingwell, Edward Mooney Jr., Nicholas Mortellaro and John S. Zetts.
May 24, 1954: Mahoning Common Pleas Judge John W. Ford signs an order evicting a man and wife and a number of girls from a Lipkey Road home that has been functioning as a notorious brothel.
Mrs. Albert F. Schoolman of New York, a leader of Hadassah who has spent half of each of the last five years in Israel, opens the regional convention of Hadassah at the Hotel Pick-Ohio in Youngstown. She says the people of Israel "have an earnest desire to establish peace with the Arabs and are determined to succeed as a nation."
The Market Street Bridge, Youngstown's busiest span, is closed on schedule for repairs, with no immediate traffic jams resulting. Some 30,000 cars that use the bridge daily will have to be rerouted until repairs are completed in October.
May 24, 1929: With more than 800 boosters present, the South Side Civic Association passes a resolution urging the widening and repaving of Market Street from Wayne Avenue to Delason Avenue.
Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corp, tells the American Iron & amp; Steel Institute that while there is a greater demand for steel now than ever before, earnings of the steel industry are "far from adequate to provide for the industry's future service to the country."
Six-year-old Carl Newton Mahan is sentenced to 15 years in a reformatory after being found guilty by a jury of manslaughter in the shooting death of a playmate. The boys had argued over possession of scrap iron that was worth a few pennies.