Today is Monday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2005. There are 222 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2005. There are 222 days left in the year. On this date in 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, La.
In 1533, the marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void. In 1701, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and murder. In 1937, industrialist John D. Rockefeller dies in Ormond Beach, Fla. In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces bogged down in Anzio begin a major breakout offensive. In 1945, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany. In 1960, Israel announces it has captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. Eichmann is tried in Israel, found guilty of crimes against humanity and hanged in 1962. In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeals of former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman and former Attorney General John N. Mitchell in connection with their Watergate convictions.
May 23, 1980: David M. Roderick, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp., gives assurances that U.S. Steel will do everything possible to help create a large reservoir of new jobs in diversified industries in Youngstown.
New Castle City Council members say they will provide no more end-of-year bailout money to the New Castle Transit Authority, even if that means eliminating bus service.
Members of the Mahoning County Metropolitan Narcotics Unit stage a series of unrelated raids, confiscating a quantity of drugs and arresting four persons. Unit officers said they had expected to arrest twice as many people while serving nine search warrants.
May 23, 1965: The booming Youngstown district is up against one of the most acute labor shortages it has experienced since World War II. Thousands of high school and college students are being recruited for temporary jobs.
President Chung Hee Park of the Republic of Korea leaves Pittsburgh for Cape Kennedy, Fla., after touring the Aliquippa plant of Jones & amp; Laughlin Steel Corp.
Boy Scout Troop 84, sponsored by Austintown Community Church, dedicates the Old Stone House at 7171 Mahoning Ave., the first historic site in Austintown to earn the Historic Trails Award in Scouting's American Heritage Program.
May 23, 1955: Youngstown's first settler, Col. James Hillman, is characterized as a symbol of the American pioneer spirit at ceremonies dedicating a new monument honoring Hillman near his grave in Oak Hill Cemetery.
A 15-year-old Youngstown boy, Philip Morris, drowns in Berlin Reservoir after he attempted to swim to a rowboat that had drifted away from the reservoir's east bank.
Three South High School seniors receive appointments to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy: Paul Richard Burgeson, Karl Frederick Mandry and Frederick Linberger.
May 23, 1930: Youngstown area Realtors say the moving of Republic Steel Corp. officials to Youngstown has taken up what slack there was in homes of the better type in the city and there is an obvious need for the construction of better homes.
Paving is being completed on a road from the Falls Avenue entrance to Mill Creek Park through Bears Den to the West Side, giving West Side residents a route through the park which they had demanded.
Of every 100 voters who cast ballots in the Literary Digest's national poll on prohibition, 40 desire repeal of the 18th amendment, 29 percent want modification and 31 percent stand for strict enforcement.