Today is Saturday, May 20, the 140th day of 2006. There are 225 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, May 20, the 140th day of 2006. There are 225 days left in the year. On this date in 1506, explorer Christopher Columbus dies in poverty in Spain.
In 1806, English political philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill is born in London. In 1861, the capital of the Confederacy is moved from Montgomery, Ala., to Richmond, Va. In 1861, North Carolina votes to secede from the Union. In 1902, the United States ends a three-year military presence in Cuba as the Republic of Cuba is established under its first elected president, Tomas Estrada Palma. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France. In 1932, Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. In 1939, regular trans-Atlantic air service begins as a Pan American Airways plane, the Yankee Clipper, takes off from Port Washington, N.Y., bound for Europe. In 1961, a white mob attacks a busload of Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Ala., prompting the federal government to send in U.S. marshals to restore order. In 1969, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces capture Apbia Mountain, referred to as Hamburger Hill by the Americans, following one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. In 1989, comedian Gilda Radner dies in Los Angeles at age 42. In 1996, the Supreme Court strikes down, by a 6-3 vote, a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination; in another decision, the court curtails, by a 5-4 vote, huge jury awards aimed at punishing or deterring misconduct. In 2001, President Bush, in an address to graduating Notre Dame students, urges a new generation of American voters to "revive the spirit of citizenship" and carry on the work of two Democratic presidents: Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty and welfare reforms under Bill Clinton; the Italian film "The Son's Room" wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
May 20, 1981: Sister M. Consolata, H.M., executive director of St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center, is elected president of the Sisters of the Humility of Mary at Villa Maria, Pa., and will leave the hospital to assume her new duties in August.
Legislation is introduced in the Ohio House to establish a Pittsburgh-to-Cleveland Waterway Authority, which would revive efforts to build a canal through the Mahoning Valley.
Edward E. Mild, 38, of Niles is named manager of technical development, a newly created position, for the RMI Co. in Niles. The Monaca, Pa., native and graduate of Youngstown State University, joined the titanium manufacturer in 1980.
May 20, 1966: Three Cornersburg boys receive the Eagle Scout Award at a Troop 47 Court of Honor. They are Ed Dyer, Robert Kasmer and Grey Glover.
Pamela Martin, a student at St. John School in Ashtabula, receives the highest grade in the state in Latin, followed closely by Gregory Miller of Howland.
Youngtown district Masons who are members of the Grotto honor Harry E. Mueller, national monarch of the Mystic Order of the Veiled Prophets, at the Masonic Temple on Wick Avenue.
May 20, 1956: An F100 Supersabre that was on display at the Youngstown Air Base for Armed Forces Day makes its return flight to its base in Pittsburgh in 4.5 minutes, as timed from the moment it passed over the Youngstown Municipal Airport to the time it passed over Pittsburgh International Airport.
Miss Lillian Harness, 51, a teacher at Hillman Junior High School, is arrested on a charge of shooting a pistol within city limits. Neighbors said she fired the pistol several times out the open windows of her home on Bancroft Ave., never aiming at anyone.
John Sulligan is easily re-elected chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party Central Committee, with 233 votes to the 23 votes received by his challenger, John Luklan.
May 20, 1931: Youngstown Board of Education member Guy T. Ohl has been named to head a committee that will search for a new superintendent of city schools.
Miss Harriet Greenwood of Youngstown is selected as one of three coeds to have their pictures printed in the Ohio Wesleyan University yearbook as representatives of coed beauty.
The Ohio Chamber of Commerce and the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants are pitted against each other on the matter of establishing a state income tax, with the merchants supporting it and the chamber opposed.