Today is Saturday, May 6, the 126th day of 2006. There are 239 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, May 6, the 126th day of 2006. There are 239 days left in the year. On this date in 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burns and crashes in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.
In 1856, Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, is born in Freiberg, Moravia, in the present-day Czech Republic. In 1856, explorer Robert Edwin Peary is born in Cresson, Pa. In 1861, Arkansas secedes from the Union. In 1889, the Paris Exposition formally opens, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower. In 1910, Britain's King Edward VII dies.
May 6, 1981: A bill to crack down on boxing and wrestling promoters who stage trumped-up matches clears the Ohio Senate, 23-10.
A proposal to set up a nonprofit corporation to handle complaints about housing discrimination in Mahoning County is gaining support from municipal and county officials.
Diana Parshall, 19, of Niles is named "Miss Mahoning Valley" and will represent the area at the Miss Ohio Pageant in June.
May 6, 1966: Atty. William G. Tablack will be appointed Mahoning County administrator to replace Atty. Dan L. Rossi, who is resigning effective June 1. Rossi was paid $9,000 a year and worked part-time. Tablack's salary and hours have not been announced.
McDonald High School's Royal Swan Swim Club performs its annual three-night water show at the high school. The 1966 show is themed on the "Beat Generation."
A long line of customers crowd in front of the Youngstown district's newest Kroger store, waiting for the doors to open at the 15,500-square-foot supermarket at 5500 Youngstown-Poland Road.
May 6, 1956: Recent attacks by Paul Butler, the Democratic Party's national boss, on Ohio Gov. Frank Lausche appear not to have hurt Lausche's standing in Ohio, but have torpedoed any chance Lausche may have had for the presidential nomination. In remarks at Ohio Wesleyan University, Butler said Lausche thinks more of Emily Post than Thomas Jefferson.
Theresa Rose Krupa, 13, an eighth grader at St. Patrick School, wins The Vindicator's 23rd annual spelling bee over a field of 102 champions from public and parochial schools in the county.
An estimated 14,000 teen-agers open the 1956 season at Idora Park on the 26th annual Vindicator Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y day.
May 6, 1931: Speaking at a meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce in Washington, Aloysius Meyer of Luxembourg, president of the European steel cartel, says high wages imperil the European economy and have already exceeded the breaking point in the United States.
State and Mahoning County authorities are seeking a deputy county treasurer on a warrant charging him with embezzling $11,950 from the county treasury.