Today is Thursday, May 1, the 122nd day of 2008. There are 244 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, May 1, the 122nd day of 2008. There are 244 days left in the year. On this date in In 1931, New York’s 102-story Empire State Building is dedicated.

In 1707, the Kingdom of Great Britain is created as a treaty merging England and Scotland takes effect. In 1786, Mozart’s opera “The Marriage of Figaro” premieres in Vienna. In 1893, the World’s Columbian Exposition opens to the public in Chicago. In 1960, the Soviet Union shoots down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane near Sverdlovsk and captures its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. In 1963, James W. Whittaker becomes the first American to conquer Mount Everest as he and a Sherpa guide reach the summit. In 1967, Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas. (They divorce in 1973.) In 1982, the 1982 World’s Fair opens in Knoxville, Tenn.

May 1, 1983: More than $170,000 is missing from Hubbard’s Water and Light Department accounts, based on a special state audit that has been in progress for a year.

Warren City Council’s Police Committee is studying a way to reduce the number of resolutions of recognition and praise it gives to groups and individuals after a meeting during which four such resolutions were presented for passage.

May 1, 1968: Youngstown Superintendent Woodrow W. Zinzer tells residents of the South High School district that special teaching arrangements are needed for “behaviorally disturbed” pupils in the city’s public schools.

A Youngstown man accused of shooting two policemen during a civil disturbance in April is indicted by the Mahoning County grand jury on charges of intentional shooting and assault with a dangerous weapon.

The goal for the 1968-69 Youngstown Area United Appeal is set at $1,780,000, which is 4 percent more than the $1.7 million raised in 1967-68, but below the goal for that year of $1.8 million.

May 1, 1958: By a 6-1 margin, Youngstown City Council authorizes an additional captain in the police department, clearing the way for promotion of Lt. Joseph Marian before the Civil Service list he heads expires in three weeks.

Mayor Frank X. Kryzan unleashes a scathing attack on state and federal highway officials and “big city politicians” who are trying to “sabotage the city’s arterial highway program.”

May 1, 1933:J.C. Argetsinger, president of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, estimates that 50 to 60 percent of the estimated $30 million cost of building a Beaver-Mahoning River waterway would be spent directly on labor, with an additional 25 to 30 percent spent on goods used in construction, much of which would be local.

Mayor Mark E. Moore indefinitely suspends James Carroll, license collector, after finding out that Carroll had told him a license for a VFW marathon was for 30 days when it was actually for 90 days.