Today is Wednesday, May 28, the 149th day of 2008. There are 217 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, May 28, the 149th day of 2008. There are 217 days left in the year. On this date in 1918, the Battle of Cantigny begins during World War I as American troops capture the French town from the Germans; the Americans are able to resist German counterattacks in the days that follow.

In 1533, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid. In 1863, the first black regiment from the North leaves Boston to fight in the Civil War. In 1892, the Sierra Club is organized in San Francisco. In 1908, British author Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond as well as “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” is born in London. In 1934, the Dionne quintuplets — Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne — are born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada.

May 28, 1983: St. Joseph Hospital appeals the state’s approval of a $9.6 million expansion/renovation project at the Warren General Hospital.

A race for children begins the fifth annual Strouss Fun Run in a dash from the store to the Home Savings & Loan Co. and back. The winner is Ron Losiewicz, 7.

May 28, 1968: Operations return to normal at the Chevrolet-Fisher Body Plant of General Motors at Lordstown ending a wildcat strike, but more than 200 grievances remain unsettled.

The 17-year cicada, commonly known as the locust, is making an appearance in Mahoning County and can be expected in coming weeks to cause considerable damage to fruit and forest trees.

Youngstown Police Chief John Terlesky names Capt. Carmen Bruno and Capt. Donald Baker to the new positions of assistant chief.

May 28, 1958: Youngstown Municipal Judge Frank R. Franko is suspended indefinitely from the practice of law by the Ohio Supreme Court after the Mahoning County Bar Association accused him of violating judicial ethics. Franko says he will appeal and that the Supreme Court’s order does not preclude him remaining on the bench.

Presbyterians and United Presbyterians open the first general assembly of the new United Presbyterian Church in the USA at Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh.

A 33-year-old New Orleans man and his 32-year-old Toledo companion are arrested in connection with the theft of money from telephone coin boxes in Youngstown and Girard.

May 28, 1933: Charles Rook, 58, of Niles, an employee of the Stevens Metal Products Co., is killed when a blast of compressed air from a line he was working on blew him from atop a 20-foot ladder to the concrete floor.

Youngstown’s Gold Star Mothers, those whose sons died in service during the World War, and the thin ranks of the G.A.R. veterans will head thousands who will pay homage to the soldier dead at the annual Memorial Day service.