Today is Friday, May 16, the 137th day of 2008. There are 229 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, May 16, the 137th day of 2008. 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 5-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 the 11 articles of impeachment against him. 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 1948, the body of CBS News correspondent George Polk is found in Solonica Harbor in Greece, several days after he had left his hotel for an interview with the leader of a Communist militia. 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 U-2 incident. In 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. In 1988, the Supreme Court rules that police can search discarded garbage without a search warrant. In 1988, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop releases a report declaring nicotine is addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine.

May 16, 1983: Loretta Smith and Marie Scott roll 1,156 to win the actual doubles title of the 42nd annual Youngstown Women’s Bowling Association Tournament. Scott also took the all-events crown with a 1,760.

Clint D. Parm, a 1974 graduate of Ursuline High School, receives his doctor of dental surgery degree from the University of Southern California.

As many Democrats would vote for President Reagan as for U.S. Sen. John Glenn if that were the match-up in 1984, a Los Angeles Times poll reports.

May 16, 1968: Atty. Elton W. Luckhart easily wins re-election to his fifth two-year term as chairman of the Mahoning County Republican Central and Executive committees at the Calvin Center, turning aside a bid by Austintown Trustee E. Ray Davis.

The Youngstown Board of Zoning Appeals gives the Lev Construction Co. 30 days to make revisions in a proposed !98-unit, $3 million residential development in the McGuffey Heights.

The Midwest caravan of 21 buses of the Poor People’s Campaign takes a whirlwind tour of Youngstown as it heads toward Washington, D.C. Welcomers along the route are few, given to confusion over whether the caravan would travel through Youngstown en route to its overnight stop in Pittsburgh.

May 16, 1958: Mrs. Elizabeth Ditchfield, a 58-year-old grandmother, carries one grandchild and leads two others to safety when fire guts the kitchen at the home of Mark Ditchfield, 950 Parkwood Ave.

John “Jack” Sulligan is named to his fifth term as the Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman during an organization meeting at the Mural Room.

Municipal Judge Forrest Cavalier says he believes S. Joseph “Sandy” Naples should receive a special diet while in Mahoning County Jail because of a stomach ulcer, but he lacks the authority to order the sheriff to provide it. Cavalier says that while he sentenced Naples to jail, only the common pleas court can order the sheriff to act.

May 16, 1933: A petition with more than 100 signatures from members of the Taft Parent-Teacher Association is sent to Mayor Mark E. Moore, city council and Police Chief Leroy Goodwin asking enforcement of the law against the sale of salacious literature.

A citizens committee of nine Youngstowners is appointed by the city planning commission to make a thorough survey of the slum elimination project after the project won unanimous approval of the commission members and of Mayor Mark E. Moore and other city officials.

Children’s tickets for the Sam Dill 3-ring circus are on sale at The Vindicator for 10 cents instead of the regular fee of 25 cents.