Today is Sunday, May 21, the 141st day of 2006. There are 224 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, May 21, the 141st day of 2006. There are 224 days left in the year. On this date in 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh lands his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
In 1881, Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross. In 1956, the United States explodes the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. In 1968, the nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, is last heard from. (The remains of the sub are later found on the ocean floor 400 miles southwest of the Azores.) In 1979, former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White is convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the slayings of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. In 1991, former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated during national elections by a suicide bomber. In 1996, at least 615 people, many of them teenagers, drown when an overloaded Tanzanian ferry capsizes in Lake Victoria. In 2001, cardinals from around the world gather at the Vatican for a three-day meeting to ponder the challenges facing the Roman Catholic Church and who might lead it after Pope John Paul II.
May 21, 1981: An emergency 7.8-mill levy to support Youngstown schools would cost the average resident about the cost of an apple a day -- 16 cents -- according to a committee formed to promote the levy.
Youngstown's Edward J. DeBartolo is poised to buy 150,000 shares of Commuter Aircraft Corp. common stock. The purchase, worth about $1.5 million, would make him the largest individual shareholder in the company.
Bus service will continue in Niles but on a reduced schedule, after City Council approves a $14,808 subsidy to the Western Reserve Transit Authority. Buses will make six daily runs through the city.
May 21, 1966: An oil portrait of Judge Clifford M. Woodside is unveiled by Dr. Charles Waltner, superintendent of Woodside Receiving Hospital, and Judge Erskine Maiden, a close friend of Judge Woodside, in the lobby of the hospital.
Atty. John W. Kerensky, executive director of the Youngsown Humane Society, which is responsible for overseeing the operation of the Mahoning County dog pound, says the society has an open-door policy and nothing to fear in response to a call for a state investigation of alleged inhumane treatment of animals at the pound.
A stubborn two-alarm fire, fueled by paint and kerosene, roars out of control for more than an hour at the Charles Shutrump & amp; Son warehouse on Hylda Ave. Afterward, firemen carried boxes of unexploded dynamite from the building.
May 21, 1956: George W. Glasgow retires as Wilson High School principal at the age of 70. About a third of his school's graduates go on to college and he was so popular that a group of residents mounted a campaign to get the Board of Education to set aside its mandatory retirement age of 70.
John Heckathorn, 11, will represent Youngstown in the state marbles tournament after winning the Youngstown championship. Local runners-up were Philip Green, 12, and Edmund Rogers, 11.
Mill Creek Park's beautiful Edith Kauffman garden is heavily damaged by vandals who ripped out prize plantings and painted names on rocks.
Wet weather has put plowing in the Mahoning Valley three weeks behind schedule; farmers who got their wheat planted before the rains came anticipate bumper crops.
May 21, 1931: The body of a 25-year-old auburn-haired woman who had been shot in the back is found in a ditch between McDonald and Mineral Ridge.
Effective June 8 air mail service to and from Youngstown will be discontinued, Postmaster Edward Westwood is informed by E.B. Wadsworth, superintendent of air mail.
Stockholders in the defunct First State Bank are informed that they must pay a 100 percent assessment on their holdings to make up defalcations of Reese B. Jones, former president of the bank.
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