Today is Saturday, May 21, the 141st day of 2005. There are 224 days left in the year. This is Armed

Today is Saturday, May 21, the 141st day of 2005. There are 224 days left in the year. This is Armed Forces Day. On this date in 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh lands his "Spirit of St. Louis" near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1542, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto dies while searching for gold along the Mississippi River. In 1832, the first Democratic National Convention gets under way, in Baltimore. In 1840, New Zealand is declared a British colony. In 1881, Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross. In 1892, the opera "I Pagliacci," by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, is first performed, in Milan, Italy. In 1924, 14-year-old Bobby Franks is murdered in a "thrill killing" committed by Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two students at the University of Chicago. In 1956, the United States explodes the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. In 1968, the nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, is last heard from. (The remains of the sub are later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.) In 1991, former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated during national elections by a suicide bomber.
May 21, 1980: Russell Horchler, 54, superintendent of the New Castle Area School District since 1966, informs the school board he'll take a one-year sabbatical and retire at the end of the 1980-81 school year.
Mitchell Kornspan, spiritual leader of Ohev Tzedek Temple in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., is the new spiritual leader of Ohev Tzedek Temple in Boardman. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Kornspan of Madison Road.
The planned abandonment of a Chessie System railroad line between Warren and Fairport Harbor in Lake County will be challenged by Trumbull County officials and businesses along the line that will be affected by loss of the line.
May 21, 1965: A small Piper Cub plane with a neon sign advertising a local car dealership caused alarm in some parts of Mahoning County, as people too far away to read the sign thought they were seeing a flying saucer and called police.
While testifying in Columbus on a capital punishment bill, Cleveland Police Chief Richard P. Wanger charges that a Cleveland black nationalist group is part of a revolutionary movement. "We have people saying they intend to overthrow the government of the United States and, incidentally, shoot all Caucasians."
Ronald Pipoly, 29, is elected president of the Youngstown Junior Chamber of Commerce, succeeding Ralph Lepley.
May 21, 1955: A caravan of Youngstown district Democrats meets Gov. Frank G. Clement of Tennessee at Youngstown Airport. He will be the speaker at the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner at the Hotel Pick-Ohio.
A sprinkler system is credited by firemen with saving the Park Theater from going up in flames. Scenery and props valued at $25,000 were damaged by water.
Triplet boys, a first in Salem, are born at the Salem Central Clinic to Mrs. Rudy Banar. The boys weigh a total of 14 pounds, two ounces.
May 21, 1930: The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District sells $3 million series "C" bonds to Otis & amp; Co. of Cleveland at an accrued interest rate of 41/2 percent. These bonds, the last necessary, bring the total sold by the district to $9 million.
E.L. Pridham, owner of a gas station at Madison and Holmes, has notified Finance Director James E. Jones that the property needed by the city to remove the jog at Madison and Holmes, with damages, will cost $10,000.
Ivan Christman, senior at Canfield High School, is granted a scholarship of $1,200 to Adelbert College, Western Reserve University, in competition with 84 other selected students from northern Ohio school districts. The scholarship covers $300 yearly tuition for four full years of college work.