Today is Monday, May 16, the 136th day of 2005. There are 229 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, May 16, the 136th day of 2005. There are 229 days left in the year. On this date in 1905, actor Henry Fonda is born in Grand Island, Neb.
In 1770, Marie Antoinette, age 14, marries the future King Louis XVI of France, who is 15. In 1866, Congress authorizes minting of the five-cent piece. In 1868, the Senate fails by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it takes its first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment against him. In 1920, Joan of Arc is canonized in Rome. In 1929, the first Academy Awards are presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. In 1960, a Big Four summit conference in Paris collapses on its opening day as the Soviet Union levels spy charges against the U.S. in the wake of the U2 incident. In 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. In 1977, five people are killed when a New York Airways helicopter, idling atop the Pan Am Building in midtown Manhattan, topples over, sending a huge rotor blade flying.
May 16, 1980: Pam Rigas, a Canfield High School graduate, is third runner-up in the Miss USA pageant at Biloxi, Miss.
Crude oil supplies are at an all-time high and refineries are cutting back production because they can't find enough customers, but analysts say gasoline prices will continue to climb over the summer.
Volleys of gunfire echo over Federal Plaza as memorial wreaths are placed at the Policemen's Monument during the Youngstown Police Department's annual observance of National Police Week and Peace Officers Memorial Day.
May 16, 1965: Solid Ohio Support is needed to win and put into operation the Lake Erie-Ohio River Interconnecting Waterway, says Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown. The Army Engineers are expected to approve a three-year, $500,000 engineering restudy of the canal.
Three persons are killed and three others injured in a collision of three cars on Route 422, just east of the Ohio line near New Bedford. Dead are George Buzek Sr., 65, of Campbell; the Rev. John Lee Austin, 33, of New Castle, and Mrs. Kathleen Stuart, 24, of New Castle.
May 16, 1955: Florence Chadwick, the famous channel swimmer, arrives in Youngstown to promote swimwear at Strouss-Hirshberg's. She has swum the channel three times and is training for a fourth assault, swimming 24 hours a week.
Marilyn Evans, a graduate of Boardman High School and a senior at Bowling Green University, is named & quot;Key Queen & quot; at Bowling Green by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, who selected her from photographs of six finalists.
A husky well-driller admits to police that he beat 80-year-old Alva J. Williams of Chardon, a wealthy feed and coal dealer, to death with electricians pliers in an argument over a 90-cent debt. He leads police to the body, which he hid in the woods.
May 16, 1930: A resolution favoring the sterilization of mental defectives and epileptics is adopted at the closing session of the 18th annual meeting of the Ohio Federated Humane Societies meeting in Youngstown.
Charles F. Scheible Jr., son of Youngstown's former mayor, resigns as a clerk in the city engineering department to take a job at the Ohio Works of Carnegie Steel. Engineering Commissioner G.F. Turner says other employees in the department will absorb Scheible's duties.
George Lee Miller of Canton, former vice president of the Gilliam Manufacturing Co., which was sold to the Timken Co., will lead a crew of Canton men to Russia for one year where they will manage a roller bearing factory being built in Moscow.