Today is Saturday, May 28, the 148th day of 2005. There are 217 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, May 28, the 148th day of 2005. There are 217 days left in the year. On this date in 1934, the Dionne quintuplets -- Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne -- are born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada.
In 1533, England's Archbishop declares the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid. In 1863, the first black regiment from the North leaves Boston to fight in the Civil War. In 1892, the Sierra Club is organized in San Francisco. In 1929, the first all-color talking picture, "On with the Show," opens in New York. In 1937, President Roosevelt pushes a button in Washington signaling that vehicular traffic could cross the just-opened Golden Gate Bridge in California. In 1937, Neville Chamberlain becomes prime minister of Britain. In 1972, the Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the English throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, dies in Paris at age 77. In 1977, 165 people are killed when fire races through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky. In 1985, David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, is abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers (he is freed 17 months later). In 1987, Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, lands a private plane in Moscow's Red Square. In 1995, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake devastates the Russian town of Neftegorsk, killing at least 2,000 people; Bosnia's foreign minister and three colleagues are killed when rebel Serbs shoot down their helicopter.
May 28, 1980: Village councils in Lordstown and McDonald approve $5 additional license plate taxes to be levied on their residents.
U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy speaks to about 200 at a fund-raiser at the Liberty home of Anthony Cafaro and to more than 3,000 at Idora Park as he seeks to stop the renomination of President Jimmy Carter with a win in Ohio's June 3 primary. Meanwhile, Carter wins three more primaries, putting him less than 90 delegates from clinching the Democratic nomination.
A poll conducted for the National Commission on Social Security shows most working Americans want to retire early, but that 61 percent of them have little or no confidence that the Social Security System will have enough money to pay benefits to them when they retire. In the 25-44 age bracket, that percentage rose to 73 percent.
Mahoning County Sheriff George D. Tablack is being challenged in the June Democratic primary by James A. Traficant Jr., executive director of the Mahoning County Drug Program Inc. Unopposed for the Republican nomination is Terrence J. Shidel, an instructor in the criminal justice department at Youngstown State University.
May 28, 1965: A 28-year-old former mental patient goes berserk at a North Side grocery store and stabs two Youngstown patrolmen before being shot dead as he lunged at a third. Dead is Everett Saunders. Sgt. Matzie Perantoni is hospitalized in serious condition; Patrolman John Leonard was released after treatment.
The 1966 budget estimate for the Youngstown Police Department submitted by Chief John Terlesky requests $2 million, an increase of $70,000, which would cover the addition of 12 new officers.
Advertisement: Pre-development sale of waterfront lots at Lake Latonka, a 270-acre "Water Wonderland" developed by American Realty Service Corp. on Rt. 62, north of Mercer.
May 28, 1955: William Keepin, 3, is killed when a train rams into the family car, which was trapped on the Erie tracks on Hubbard Road by a railroad crossing gate that had lowered behind the car and another vehicle that was stopped ahead of it. The boy's mother managed to get two other children out of the car and to safety before the train struck.
Paul Prather, 30, a World War II veteran, is the first Negro in Youngstown history to be appointed a deputy bailiff of Municipal Court. The appointment is made by Judge Frank R. Franko.
Boardman High defeats Woodrow Wilson, 1-0, at Shady Run to capture the Mahoning Valley Scholastic Baseball League championship.
May 28, 1930: A permit issued in November for construction of an 18-story hotel at W. Federal and Chestnut streets, across from the new Warner Theater, expires, but Fred W. Green says the $1.2 million project is not dead.
A committee studying proposed changes in Youngstown's charter suggests a run-off election in the case of any city official not receiving a majority vote.
A 38-year-old Mineral Ridge man is fined $50 and sentenced to 90 days in county jail for stealing a bantam rooster and 10 chickens at the Shively farm, Ohltown.