Today is Friday, May 26, the 146th day of 2006. There are 219 days left in the year. On this date in
Today is Friday, May 26, the 146th day of 2006. There are 219 days left in the year. On this date in 1940, the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, begins during World War II.
In 1521, Martin Luther is banned by the Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs and writings. In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned king of Italy in Milan. In 1865, arrangements are made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi. In 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends with his acquittal on all remaining charges. In 1913, Actors' Equity Association is organized. In 1960, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accuses the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that had been presented to the U.S. embassy in Moscow.
May 26, 1981: A $1.5 million contract is awarded to A.P. O'Horo Co. for construction of a maintenance facility at the Youngstown Air Reserve Base designed to house the C-130 cargo planes that will soon go into service at the base. The base is converting from a tactical mission using A-37 aircraft to an airlift mission using the C-130s.
Authorities believe robbery was involved in the death of Mary Jan Congonello, 57, whose body was found floating in Lake Newport a day after she left home to go to a bingo game.
May 26, 1966: Struthers Traffic Investigator Leo Dunn is slashed on his hands and face by a 30-year-old Poland man as he attempts to arrest him during a disturbance at the Army-Navy Garrison Club. Twelve club patrons made no attempt to aid Dunn as he struggled with the man.
A plan to merge three additional Austintown sewer districts with Youngstown is discussed at a meeting of city and county officials called to consider pollution in the Meander Reservoir.
May 26, 1956: There is no enthusiasm among 30 organization leaders in Austintown Township for a proposed annexation of part of the township to Youngstown.
Several hundred members of the Elks Club in downtown Youngstown and their wives attend the reopening of the club's remodeled quarters on Boardman Street. Lou Sikora and his orchestra played for dancing at the buffet dinner.
May 26, 1931: Overtaken by Youngstown Officers Johnson and Slifka in a radio cruiser car, Frank Szabo, who was fleeing after slaying Tom Demoff, 48, shoots himself through the head near a stone quarry in the vicinity of Tod School.
The dispute between tradesmen and contractors comes to an end when the bricklayers union signs an agreement with the Allied Construction Industries based on a $1 a day decrease in wages.