Today is Thursday, May 29, the 150th day of 2008. There are 216 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, May 29, the 150th day of 2008. There are 216 days left in the year. On this date in 1765, Patrick Henry denounces the Stamp Act before Virginia’s House of Burgesses. (It was during this speech that Henry supposedly responded to cries of “Treason!” by declaring, “If this be treason, make the most of it,” according to an 1817 biography of Henry by William Wirt, who wrote that he had confirmed the quote with former President Thomas Jefferson.)

In 1790, Rhode Island becomes the 13th original colony to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1848, Wisconsin becomes the 30th state of the union. In 1903, comedian Bob Hope is born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, London. In 1913, the ballet “The Rite of Spring,” with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, has its chaotic world premiere in Paris. In 1917, the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, is born in Brookline, Mass. In 1932, World War I veterans begin arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they aren’t scheduled to receive until 1945.

May 29, 1983: With time running out, state development officials still hope to make good on a promise made by Development Director Al Dietzel to open a satellite development office in the four-county area by mid-June.

The Vukovich administration is keeping alive a $2 million low-interest federal loan for developer Andrew Burin who has proposed a downtown hotel-convention center. Burin has not been able to raise about $11 million in private finance.

Cortland Masonic Lodge 529 holds a reconsecration ceremony to mark its 100th anniversary. Two 60-year members attend, George Kostur and M. Robert Jones.

May 29, 1968: Combustion Engineering Inc. of New York City agrees to acquire Ajax Magnethermic Corp. of Warren in a transaction valued at $26 million.

Ursuline and Mooney athletic directors Tom Carey and Don Bucci ask that their schools be released from athletic commitments with Youngstown Public Schools for the 1968-69 school year, saying it is becoming impossible to arrange a full schedule due to uncertainty of sports in city public schools during the coming year.

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

May 29, 1958: Unemployment has grown worse in 16 Ohio industrial centers in recent months, with the Lorain, Steubenville and Canton areas joining Youngstown in the 9 to 12 percent bracket.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. will start its Brier Hill Works open hearth plant, lighting four open hearths and recalling several hundred workmen after a two-week shutdown.

The Air Force demonstrates a mobile launcher that allows a F100D Super Sabre fighter jet to become airborne from remote sites without using a runway. The plane uses its own thrust and that of an attached rocket to get into the air and reach a speed of 275 mph in four seconds.

May 29, 1933: Youngstown Sheet Tube Co. continues to lead the steel stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, reaching a new high of 315‚Ñ8, while other steel stock barely held their weekend high prices.

Mabel Miles, president of the Mahoning County Women’s Christian Temperance Union, tells a rally at Evergreen Presbyterian Church that legal beer “is a creeping menace on the American people.”

Dr. Leonard W. Stryker, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church, is elected president of the Youngstown Ministerial Association.

Plans are being made in the city of Niles to celebrate the city’s 100th birthday in 1934.