Today is Wednesday, May 11, the 131st day of 2005. There are 234 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, May 11, the 131st day of 2005. There are 234 days left in the year. On this date in 1985, 55 people die when a flash fire sweeps a jam-packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England.
In 1904, surrealist artist Salvador Dali is born in Figueras, Spain. In 1910, Glacier National Park in Montana is established. In 1943, during World War II, U.S. forces land on the Aleutian island of Attu, which is held by the Japanese; the Americans take the island 19 days later. In 1944, Allied forces launch a major offensive against German lines in Italy. In 1946, the first CARE packages arrive in Europe, at Le Havre, France. In 1949, Israel is admitted to the United Nations as the world body's 59th member. In 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the "Pentagon Papers" case are dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cites government misconduct. In 1996, an Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 catches fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashes into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
May 11, 1980: Paine Webber, the country's third-largest brokerage house, is lining up investors to lend Commuter Aircraft Corp. the $30 million in working capital it needs for an aircraft assembly plant at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Mahoning County's half-percent sales tax is slightly more than a month old and opinions on the additional levy range from indifference to anger. A spokesman for the Concerned Citizens Against Taxes says people are eagerly signing petitions to put the tax to a vote.
The president of the Ohio synod of the Lutheran Church of America, the Rev. Dr. Kenneth H. Sauer, officiates at the dedication of the 65-foot bell tower at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Warren.
May 11, 1965: A 40-year-old Benita Avenue woman who lost her drivers license for life after striking a young cyclist and unknowingly dragging him beneath her car until others intervened, is arrested by a Youngstown policeman after driving through a red light in Poland Avenue.
Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. will spend $255 million more to enlarge its Indiana Harbor Works at East Chicago, Ind., in the second phase of Sheet & amp; Tube's four-year expansion.
Detectives pick up a 48-year-old North Side man as a fugitive who walked away from a prison camp in Alabama in 1943 and has lived a normal life in Campbell and Youngstown for more than 20 years. He had served a few months of a 10-year term for robbery before escaping.
May 11, 1955: Efforts to supply parts of Austintown, Weathersfield and Liberty townships with Mahoning Valley Sanitary District water hit an impasse when Mayor Frank X. Kryzan says he will not cooperate until Niles drops its lawsuit over how much it should pay toward construction of the Berlin-Meander pipeline.
Youngstown officials ask the commissioners of Mahoning and Trumbull whether they are prepared to share about 10 percent of the cost of the city's $10 million sewage disposal project to cover those unincorporated sections of the counties that will use the Youngstown system.
The federal government files tax claims totaling $345,000 against four notorious Mahoning Valley racketeers who operated the Jungle Inn and, the government says, grossed $1.3 million during a 20-month period in 1948 and 1949.
May 11, 1930: Youngstown, the scene of several important golf tournaments in the past, is making a bid for one of the country's biggest in 1932, the U.S.G.A. national public links tournament. John Morley, veteran Youngstown Country Club greenskeeper, will make a pitch to U.S.G.A. officials to bring the tournament to the Mill Creek Park course.
There are fresh reports from the Methodist Episcopal Church quadrennial general conference being held in Dallas that charges of gambling will be brought against Bishop James J. Cannon Jr. of Washington on information that he was involved in marginal trading of stocks.
Nicolai Lenine is chosen as the name for the two-week old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kaskalis of Campbell as the boy is christened into life membership of the Communist Party at the Workers Center on E. Federal Street in Youngstown. About 50 communist enthusiasts witness the ceremony.