Today is Thursday, May 4, the 124th day of 2006. There are 241 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, during World War II, German forces in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany agree

Today is Thursday, May 4, the 124th day of 2006. There are 241 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, during World War II, German forces in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany agree to surrender.
In 1626, Dutch explorer Peter Minuit lands on present-day Manhattan Island. In 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for an eight-hour work day turns into a riot when a bomb explodes. In 1904, the United States begins building the Panama Canal. In 1916, responding to a demand from President Wilson, Germany agrees to limit its submarine warfare, thereby averting a diplomatic break with Washington. In 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. In 1932, mobster Al Capone, convicted of income-tax evasion, enters the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. In 1946, a two-day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay ends, the violence having claimed five lives. In 1961, a group of "Freedom Riders" leaves Washington for New Orleans to challenge racial segregation in interstate buses and bus terminals. In 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen open fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others. In 1976, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser announces that "Waltzing Matilda" would serve as his country's national anthem at the upcoming Olympic Games.
May 4, 1981: Republic Steel Corp. shelves its plans to build to electric arc furnaces at its Warren plant "pending a review of the technology," says W. Lawrence Weeks, Republic's Mahoning Valley district manager.
Dr. Charles M. White of Warren is still practicing dentistry at 84 years of age in a Victorian house at 350 N. Park Ave. He has been in practice for 62 years and is a past president of Corydon Palmer Dental Society.
Stock prices plummet on a broad front amid growing concern over rising interest rates. The Dow Jones average loses 19 points to close at 976.31.
May 4, 1966: Thomas J. Barrett, former city finance director and former state representative, easily wins nomination for a full term as Mahoning County commissioner.
Boardman voters approve a bond issue of $5.3 million for construction of a new high school, 3,767 to 3,333.
The alumnae of Youngstown Hospital Association School of Nursing mark the 70th anniversary of the school with a dinner at South Side Hospital.
May 4, 1956: A proposal by Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan for the city to annex Austintown Township gets support from other city officials, some county officials, but mixed reactions from Austintown civic and industrial leaders.
A state welfare department official indicates approval of a proposal to house indigent sick persons requiring hospital care at the Mahoning Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
H.E. Johnson, president of the W.O. Strausbaugh Motor Co., is elected president of the Greater Youngstown Area Foundation.
May 4, 1931: A special grand jury of 10 women and five men convenes in Mahoning County to investigate the Engle-Thomas-judges-utilities scandal.
Dr. J. J. Richeson, superintendent of Youngstown schools, says he has refused to accept the suggestion of a school board member that he "gracefully resign." Richeson says he has been told by board member T. Lamar Jackson that he will probably not be re-elected superintendent.
Tilby Smith, 26-year-old Ashtabula trucking contractor, is found guilty for a second time in the murder of his wife, Clara, and once again faces the death penalty.