Today is Tuesday, May 6, the 127th day of 2008. There are 239 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Tuesday, May 6, the 127th day of 2008. There are 239 days left in the year. On this date in 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burns and crashes in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.

In 1861, Arkansas secedes from the Union. In 1889, the Paris Exposition formally opens, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower. In 1910, Britain’s King Edward VII dies. In 1935, the Works Progress Administration begins operating. In 1942, during World War II some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrender to the Japanese. In 1954, medical student Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. In 1960, Britain’s Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey. (They divorce in 1978.) In 1981, Yale architecture student Maya Ying Lin is named winner of a competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. In 1994, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand formally open the Channel Tunnel between their countries.

May 6, 1983: Michael Seaman of 2505 Shirley Road finds a hole through the hood of his 1976 car and a generator that was built in the 1960s for installation on aircraft buried in the ground beneath the car. How the generator came to fall from the sky is unknown.

Youngstown Police Chief John Lynch III accepts the resignation of one patrolman and fires two others in the case of stripped moped that was found on the North Side. The men are accused of stripping the moped to the bare frame before turning it in, with the intention of buying the stripped frame from the insurance company for a pittance and then reassembling the motorbike.

Local and state library officials say they’ve read between the lines of Gov. Richard F. Celeste’s proposal to change the source of Ohio library funding and they believe libraries would be hurt by a repeal of the intangibles tax.

The Ohio Housing Finance Agency is offering mortgages of 9.98 percent using money from a $300 million housing revenue bond sale authorized by passage of State Issue 1.

May 6, 1968: Danny Thomas, TV and screen comedian, will be in Youngstown for a statewide convention of directors of ALSAC, Aid to Leukemia Stricken American Children.

Nearly 300 children attending religious classes at Rodef Sholom Temple, Elm and Woodbine streets, escape injury when a fire breaks out in the education wing of the building.

Christians of seven denominations break bread in a gesture of mutual love at the second annual Niles Interfaith Dinner, which drew 450 members of nine Niles churches to Our Lady of Mt Carmel School auditorium.

May 6, 1958: Some 600 Civil Defense workers in the Mahoning Valley are participating in a test of the nation’s air raid warning system.

Youngstown area unemployment claims soar to 15,276, exceeding the previous high of 15,096 registered the week of April 19.

The Rev. Robert B. Harriman, pastor of Evergreen Presbyterian Church, is elected president of the Youngstown Ministerial Association.

May 6, 1933: Dr. C.H. Beight, Youngstown health commissioner, is investigating two complaints of alleged negligence by city physicians regarding the treatment of destitute children.

A West Federal Street market proprietor is fined $100 after Municipal Judge Harry Hoffman finds him guilty of possessing tainted meat.

Raymond D. Fusselman of 780 Kenilworth Ave. SE, Warren, is declared the best pistol shot in his graduating class from the Naval Academy.