Today is Monday, May 19, the 140th day of 2008. There are 226 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, May 19, the 140th day of 2008. There are 226 days left in the year. On this date in 1935, British soldier T.E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” dies in Dorset, England, six days after being injured in a motorcycle crash.

In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, is beheaded after being convicted of adultery. In 1962, during a Democratic fundraiser at New York’s Madison Square Garden, actress Marilyn Monroe performs a sultry rendition of “Happy Birthday to You” for guest-of-honor President Kennedy. In 1967, the Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and Britain banning nuclear weapons from outer space. In 1992, the 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits Congress from giving itself pay raises until the next congressional term, goes into effect. In 1994, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies in New York at age 64.

May 19, 1983: Andrew Chapella, a former Struthers city council president, testifies during Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr.’s bribery trial in Cleveland that he saw Traficant return $15,000 in mob money to racketeer Charles Carabbia

Paul Murphy, standout at Canfield High School, signs a letter of intent to play basketball at Penn State University.

May 19, 1968: Roberta Kuebler, a Chaney High School student, wins third place in the botany division at the National Science Fair in Detroit.

The Youngstown area anti-poverty program will submit a budget calling for $684,641 in federal money for the coming fiscal year for operation of its central office and five neighborhood centers.

May 19, 1958: A Youngstown contractor, A.S. Katzman, and two Lorain companions are rescued after drifting in an open boat on Lake Erie for 18 hours. Their 19-foot boat lost a propeller shortly after leaving Put-in-Bay.

Directors of General Fireproofing Co. cut the company’s dividend to 20 cents a share, from 60 cents, which had been the quarterly payment in recent years.

May 19, 1933: A crowd of 2,000 gathers at the Erie Terminal in Youngstown to see 400 young people off for service in the “forest army.” The youths will spend their first two weeks at Camp Knox in Kentucky getting into physical shape for the rigors that will face them.

Youngstown hotels report that many salesmen are coming into the city to do business, swelling hotel registrations above levels experienced for more than a year.