Today is Thursday, May 19, the 139th day of 2005. There are 226 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, May 19, the 139th day of 2005. There are 226 days left in the year. On this date in 1935, T.E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," dies in Dorset, England, from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.
In 1906, the Federated Boys' Clubs, forerunner of the Boys' Clubs of America, is organized. In 1943, in an address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledges his country's full support in the war against Japan. In 1958, the United States and Canada formally establish the North American Air Defense Command. In 1962, during a Democratic fundraiser at Madison Square Garden, actress Marilyn Monroe performs a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday to You" for guest-of-honor President Kennedy. In 1967, the Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and Britain banning nuclear weapons from outer space. In 1992, the 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits Congress from giving itself mid-term pay raises, goes into effect. In 1994, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies in New York at age 64.
May 19, 1980: Joseph DeRose, wounded in an ambush outside his Canfield Township apartment, disappears after leaving St. Elizabeth Hospital where he was being treated.
Campbell Memorial High's Linda Valerio captures a state championship medal in the 100-yard butterfly in Columbus. At 57 seconds flat, she was just 6/10s of a second off the state high school record.
Columnists Robert Novak and Rowland Evans write that anger at President Carter over his perceived abandonment of the Youngstown area following the closing of steel mills in the Mahoning Valley could cost him the district vote in his Democratic primary battle with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
May 19, 1965: Plans for a new school for retarded children, which would be one of the finest facilities in the country, are presented at a meeting of county commissioners with the Mahoning County Board of Child Welfare and the advisory committee.
L.A. Beeghly, one of Youngstown's leading industrial and civic leaders and philanthropists, is honored as & quot;Man of the Year & quot; by the Organization of Protestant Men at the OPM's 14th annual spring banquet at Calvin Center.
Atty. Vincent Serman, 39, and Lenine Strollo, 31, former Poland Township tavern owner, have lost their battle of more than two years to escape the federal penitentiary for counterfeit convictions. The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear the case.
May 19, 1955: Chief Justice Carl V. Weygandt of the Ohio Supreme Court will come to Youngstown to hear arguments on an affidavit of prejudice filed against Common Pleas Judge Harold B. Doyle in connection with an injunction that has been sought to block razing the old county jail and building a new one.
Five-year-old Barbara J. Wansack is killed when a a flower box falls on her while playing in a neighbor's yards. Barbara, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Wansack, and a playmate were attempting to climb on the flower box when it toppled over.
A mother, father and their six children are evicted from an apartment at the Westlake Terrace housing project after falling two months behind on their $60-per-month rent. Their furniture and possessions are moved outside to a play area between the buildings and YMHA officials say the family will not be readmitted even if they pay the back rent because they had fallen behind before.
May 19, 1930: Two persons are killed and three others critically injured when a Detroit-Pittsburgh bus smashes into a trailer parked on the Akron-Canton highway, 15 miles north of Canton, during a heavy rain storm.
Mrs. G.I. Gardiner, census supervisor for Youngstown, says the payroll of enumerators in the recent census is expected to exceed $12,000.