Today is Wednesday, May 16, the 136th day of 2007. There are 229 days left in the year. On this date in 1929, the first Academy Awards are presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

Today is Wednesday, May 16, the 136th day of 2007. There are 229 days left in the year. On this date in 1929, the first Academy Awards are presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The movie "Wings" wins "best production," while Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor are named best actor and best actress.
In 1770, Marie Antoinette, age 14, marries the future King Louis XVI of France, who is 15. In 1866, Congress authorizes minting of the first five-cent piece, also known as the "Shield nickel." In 1868, the Senate fails by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it takes its first ballot on one of the 11 articles of impeachment against him. In 1905, actor Henry Fonda is born in Grand Island, Neb. In 1920, Joan of Arc is canonized by Pope Benedict XV. In 1946, the Irving Berlin musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman as Annie Oakley, opens on Broadway. In 1960, a Big Four summit conference in Paris collapses on its opening day as the Soviet Union levels spy charges against the U.S. in the wake of the U2 incident. In 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. In 1977, five people are killed when a New York Airways helicopter, idling atop the Pan Am Building in midtown Manhattan, topples over, sending a huge rotor blade flying. In 1991, Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
May 16, 1982: Youngstown Mayor George Vukovich asks businessmen to work with his administration to keep merchants from abandoning downtown.
The Youngstown-Warren area places a very respectable 53rd among safest places to live in the United States by the Places Rated Almanac. Miami, Fla., is last among 277 metropolitan areas; St. Cloud, Minn., is first.
May 16, 1967: The Youngstown Board of Education is standing firm on its 13 major cutbacks in school costs promised before the defeat of the 7.5-mill operating levy, but will consider outside proposals to help finance any of the programs. Among the cuts are kindergarten and sports, including football.
The Brookfield Federation of Teachers is elected bargaining agent for township school teachers.
A proposal to annex Howland Township to Warren, a move that would nearly double the size of the city, will be placed before township voters in November.
May 16, 1957: Plans for a new three-lane bridge crossing Mill Creek at Slippery Rock, south of the present bridge, are presented to Mill Creek Park commissioners.
The Mahoning Valley Amateur Radio Club is offering to send free radio messages to servicemen anywhere in the world as part of Youngstown's Armed Forces Week observance.
May 16, 1932: A group of local residents studying the proposed annexation of Campbell to Youngstown finds that the lion's share of the benefits would accrue to Campbell, not Youngstown.
A court referee rules that Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. need not pay attorney fees incurred by opponents of the now-abandoned proposal to merge the company with Bethlehem Steel Corp. Fees involved in the case were estimated as high as 1 million.