Today is Friday, May 6, the 126th day of 2005. There are 239 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, May 6, the 126th day of 2005. There are 239 days left in the year. On this date in 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible "Hindenburg" burns and crashes in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.
In 1861, Arkansas secedes from the Union. In 1889, the Paris Exposition formally opens, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower. In 1935, the Works Progress Administration begins operating. In 1942, during World War II, some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrender to the Japanese. In 1954, medical student Roger Bannister breaks the 4-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England. In 1981, Yale architecture student Maya Ying Lin is named winner of a competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. In 1987, CIA Director William J. Casey dies at age 74. In 1994, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand formally open the Channel Tunnel between their countries. In 1996, the body of former CIA director William E. Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he'd disappeared.
May 6, 1980: Northern Columbiana County Community Hospital officials are attempting to help reduce inflationary costs to their patients by encouraging outpatient surgery when possible. Outpatient surgery results in a savings of 22 to 40 percent over inpatient procedures.
The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District is granted permission to raise its wholesale water rates to the cities of Niles and Youngstown by 25 percent.
Packard Electric Division of General Motors Corp. lays off 3,083 hourly workers in the face of slumping new car sales.
May 6, 1965: Youngstown's three municipal judges sign a journal entry raising the salaries of 18 of their employees by $240 a year; the 19th employee, Thomas DeBernardi, chief deputy bailiff, receives an increase of $840.
Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. undertakes a six-month study to decide what kind of major installations it will build to curb air pollution caused by oxygen lances on its open hearth furnaces in Youngstown.
May 6, 1955: The United Auto Workers (CIO) proposes that Ford and General Motors establish a reserve fund of a half-billion dollars to guarantee and annual wage for autoworkers at the end of five years.
A special committee of the American Medial Association unveils a program designed to halt fee splitting between some surgeons and other physicians.
U.S. Rep Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown votes against restoration of the price supports for basic agricultural commodities. The bill passes by a narrow margin, 205 to 201.
Youngstown East High golfers end Warren Harding's win streak at nine in a match at the Avalon Course. Nick Altiere's 75 paced the East team.
May 6, 1930: The ranks of Tod Post 29, G.A.R., have dwindled in recent years, but 40 veterans of the Civil War are expected to march in the Memorial Day parade.
The Rev. Fletcher Homan arrives in Youngstown to take up the pastorship of Belmont Ave. M.E. Church.