Today is Thursday, May 26, the 146th day of 2005. There are 219 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, May 26, the 146th day of 2005. There are 219 days left in the year. On this date in 1940, the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, begins during World War II.
In 1521, Martin Luther is banned by the Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs and writings. In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy in Milan. In 1865, arrangements are made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi. In 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends with his acquittal on all remaining charges. In 1913, Actors' Equity Association is organized. In 1960, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accuses the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that had been presented to the U.S. embassy in Moscow. In 1969, the Apollo 10 astronauts return to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing. In 1978, the first legal casino in the eastern United States opens in Atlantic City, N.J. In 1991, a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashes in Thailand, killing all 223 people aboard. In 1994, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley are married in the Dominican Republic. (The marriage, however, ends in 1996.)
May 26, 1980: Youngstown area state parks draw capacity crowds on the Memorial Day weekend as temperatures near 80 and sunny weather prevails.
The one-quarter percent city income tax increase proposed by the Vukovich administration would yield $2 million a year -- just enough to cover the 10 percent pay increases promised city employees in 1981, Finance Director John Benninger says.
Six area residents are honored at the Eastern Orthodox Men's Society's 18th annual awards dinner: Sheriff George D. Tablack, Emanuel N. Catsoules, the Very Rev. George T. Pappas, Elaine J. Yuschak, Nicholas G. Mays and Bill Sywy.
May 26, 1965: James E. O'Brien, executive director of Associated Neighborhood Centers, is named Mahoning County's new welfare director, succeeding the late Isadore L. Feuer, who had been the county's first and only welfare director.
Edward J. Legant, new plant manager of the Fisher Body operations at Lordstown, says that when the plant opens as many as 5,700 people will be employed. About 150 area industrial, business and civic leaders met Legant at a reception at the Town and Country Motel near Warren.
Richard S. Van Cleave, executive vice president of Bresler Dairy Enterprises of Chicago, is the new executive vice president and general manager of the Isaly Dairy Co. in Youngstown.
May 26, 1955: Bethlehem Steel Corp. will add about one million tons of annual steel capacity to Youngstown operations if a merger goes through between Bethlehem and Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., says Eugene G. Grace, Bethlehem chairman.
The Ohio House passes a bill to clean up comic books and movies sold or exhibited to children. It would ban the depiction of obscene, unlawful or unusually cruel acts in comic books and acts provocative of crime or delinquency in movies.
Testimony in a Cleveland tax court shows profits at the Jungle Inn gambling den during 1948 and eight months of 1949 totaled $1.3 million. The take was listed as $166,000 from the horse book; $638,000 from slot machines; $431,000 from dice; $73,000 from poker, roulette and chuck-a-luck, and nothing from bingo.
May 26, 1930: Michael Sandor, 35, and Thomas Park, 40, are killed when molten cinder explodes in an open hearth pit at the Trumbull plant of the Republic Steel Corp.
Harry W. Kushing, 23, of Pittsburgh is acquitted by a jury in Lisbon in connection with the death of Deputy Sheriff James E. Elliott, who died after he was brushed from the running board of Kushing's car. The officer jumped on the running board to arrest Kushing for a traffic violation, but Judge W.S. Slocum instructed the jury that Kushing had violated no law and Elliott acted under a "mistaken idea of duty."
The Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey owns 99.7 percent of the common and preferred stock of the East Ohio Gas. Co. and all of the stock of Hope Natural Gas and Peoples Gas Co., which supply East Ohio with the gas used in Youngstown, a report released in New York reveals.