Today is Thursday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2005. There are 233 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2005. There are 233 days left in the year. On this date in 1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrender.
In 1870, Manitoba enters Confederation as a Canadian province. In 1932, the body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh is found in a wooded area of Hopewell, N.J. In 1933, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration are established to provide help for the needy and farmers. In 1937, Britain's King George VI is crowned at Westminster Abbey. In 1965, West Germany and Israel exchange letters establishing diplomatic relations. In 1970, the Senate votes unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice. In 1975, the White House announces the new Cambodian government has seized an American merchant ship, the "Mayaguez," in international waters. In 1985, Illinois Gov. James Thompson commutes the sentence of Gary Dotson, who'd served six years in prison for a rape that the alleged victim later said never happened. In 1985, Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as the first female rabbi in the Conservative Jewish movement.
May 12, 1980: The music department of Warren Western Reserve High School presents a spring Pops Concert in the high school gymnasium featuring both instrumental and vocal groups. Admission, $2 for adults, $1 for students.
The extensive and expensive job of covering General Motors Corp.'s Lordstown car assembly line for its projected new job of assembling the J car, also known as the World Car, is moving ahead rapidly.
May 12, 1965: Youngstown University receives a $564,963 federal grant for its new five-story science building, which will rise on the site of the Vaschak funeral Home at Bryson St. and Lincoln Ave.
Ground is broken for the new $800,000 engineering building at Grove City College, which will be named in honor of Dr. Creig S. Hoyt, who was on the faculty for many years until his death in 1957.
May 12, 1955: Smith, Barney & amp; Co., New York bonding house, is the best bidder on a $1.8 million issue of Youngstown capital improvement bonds, bidding a 2.5 percent interest rate with a $33,445 premium.
Trouble continues in Youngstown's building trades as about 100 plaster tenders, members of AFL Local 125, Hod Carriers, Building & amp; Common Laborers Union, walked out in a contract dispute. The men are seeking a 61/2 cent per hour pay boost; the Mahoning County plasterers' association has offered 4 cents.
A Powell Street man is charged with murder in the death of Fred J. Mackey, slain Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. foreman. Police say Mackey was beaten to death after catching his assailant stealing scrap metal in the Brier Hill plant parking lot.
May 12, 1930: Ice and ice cream dealers, golf courses and the highways and parks in the Youngstown area do a summer-time business as the mercury climbs into the 90s under clear blue skies.
Independent Youngstown taxicab operators protest the 35 cent flat fare instituted by Liberty Cabs Inc. of Dayton, saying the fare is so low it makes the new cabs jitneys. D.E. Marino, operator of the De Luxe Cab Co. threatens to lower his fare to 25 cents, but says he will first meet with Traction Commissioner Harry Engle to seek a solution to the problem.
Mrs. James Langley of 101 E. Chalmers Ave., who is 91, is the oldest mother reported to have attended Mother's Day services at Youngstown churches. She attended Trinity M.E. Church, where each mother received a flower.