Today is Saturday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2006. There are 232 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2006. There are 232 days left in the year. On this date in 1981, Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.
In 1607, the English colony at Jamestown, Va., is settled. In 1846, the United States declares that a state of war already exists against Mexico. In 1917, three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, report seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary. In 1940, in his first speech as prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill tells the House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." In 1954, President Eisenhower signs into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act. In 1985, a confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ends as police drop an explosive onto the group's headquarters; 11 people die in the resulting fire.
May 13, 1981: Ohio's capital improvements budget contains $16 million for dental and veterinary medicine schools at Youngstown State University, says state Sen. Harry Meshel, D-Youngstown.
Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant is contemplating the layoff of as many as 60 percent of his personnel because of a one-third cut in his budget.
May 13, 1966: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan is co-host for a party in Washington for President Johnson and nearly 7,000 enthusiastic Democrats to raise half a million dollars for the party's campaign chest.
Boardman police are expected to file charges against a 20-year-old Youngstown University student who was arrested after it was discovered that he was harboring three 15-year-old runaway Boardman High school girls in a Pennsylvania Ave. apartment.
Speaking in Canfield, Gov. James A. Rhodes predicts that General Motors new Lordstown plant will become the world's greatest auto assembly facility and will attract 10 to 15 new industries as GM suppliers move in.
May 13, 1956: Youngstown Manufacturing Inc., known as the birthplace of the aluminum industry in the area, has bought Ford Moulding Co. of Kearny, N.J., and Louisburg, N.C., in a deal estimated at $1 million.
Alan J. Lebowitz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Lebowitz, 1850 Fifth Ave., Youngstown, a senior at Harvard University, is awarded the Bowdoin Prize, Harvard's oldest and most distinguished literary honor.
Youngstown East golfers finish with a 322 total to defeat defending champion Rayen, which had 324, in the 16th annual Yankee Run Scholastic Tourney.
May 13, 1931: Bernard Hirshberg, pioneer merchant of Youngstown, one of the founders and for many years vice president of the Strouss-Hirshberg Co., dies suddenly at his home at 260 Tod Lane. He was 80.
Robots to replace open hearth men are discussed by a committee of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers meeting in Chicago. Meters would automatically regulate the flow of fuel, usually oil or gas, to meet the temperature requirements of metals used in producing steel.