Today is Wednesday, May 26, the 147th day of 2004. There are 219 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, May 26, the 147th day of 2004. There are 219 days left in the year. On this date in 1940, the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, begins during World War II.
In 1521, Martin Luther is banned by the Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs and writings. In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned king of Italy. In 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends with his acquittal on all remaining charges. In 1913, Actors' Equity Association is organized. In 1969, the Apollo 10 astronauts return to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing. In 1977, George H. Willig scales the outside of the South Tower of New York's World Trade Center; he is arrested at the top of the 110-story building. In 1978, the first legal casino in the eastern U.S. opens in Atlantic City, N.J. In 1991, a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashes in Thailand, killing all 223 people aboard.
May 26, 1979: After 76 years as a refuge for unwed mothers, the Florence Crittenton Home, 1161 McGuffey Road, faces the possibility of closing after the United Way's Planning Council ends its support of the facility, which had been about $50,000 per year. Council members agree that unwed mothers now need counseling and education more than they need a place to stay.
An American Airlines DC-10 wide-bodied jet crashes at Chicago's O'Hare airport, killing 271 people, nearly twice the number of lives lost in any previous U.S. air disaster.
Warren Boxer Earnie Shaves scores an easy victory over Eddie Porett at the Richfield Coliseum in a fight that was supposed to be a tune-up for Shavers' looming heavyweight title fight against Larry Holmes.
May 26, 1964: A 41-year-old Austintown woman whose car struck a 5-year-old boy and dragged him 11/2 miles has her driver's license revoked for the rest of her life. The boy, Jimmy Slattery, has been released from the hospital and is recuperating at home.
Ronald Carabbia, kingpin of the Struthers bug operation who was found guilty of gambling in a jury trial, and Stephen G. Almasy, who pleaded guilty to promoting a numbers game, will have probation hearings in June.
May 26, 1954: A three-quarter mile Division Street Bridge to connect with the present span over the river with relocated W. Federal Street at Craven Street will cost $2.6 million, according to plans submitted to City Council by City Engineer James C. Ryan.
Seventy-nine men are killed and 220 injured in a fire on the aircraft carrier Bennington during a routine trip along the eastern seaboard. At least three Youngstown district men are known to be aboard the ship, Paul Wonsetler, Steve Salada and Ernest Gustinella Jr.
May 26, 1929: A firm step in the direction of placing women on a parity with men in the affairs of the Presbyterian Church of the United States is taken by the 141st General Assembly, which decides by unanimous vote to make women eligible for ordination as ministers. The matter will next go to the 214 Presbyteries.
Nine Youngstown area Boy Scouts will spend six weeks in England, France and Holland after attending an international jamboree in Arrow Park, Birkenhead, England. They are John Bakody, Charles Arms, Ralph Heberding, Henry Heedy, Wilbur Blair, Curtis Manchester, William Tinsley, Ralph Norling and Mason Blair.
CORRECTION: Several entries in the Years Ago column on Sunday appeared under the 1964 heading rather than 1979. Among them was a story reporting an investigation into the death of a Youngstown coed, Kimberly L. Jackson, at Bowling Green State University.