Today is Tuesday, May 19, the 139th day of 2009. There are 226 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, May 19, the 139th day of 2009. There are 226 days left in the year. On this date in 1909, the innovative Ballets Russes (Russian Ballets), under the direction of Sergei Diaghilev, debuts in Paris.

In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, is beheaded after being convicted of adultery. In 1780, a mysterious darkness envelopes much of New England and part of Canada in the early afternoon. In 1921, Congress passes, and President Warren G. Harding signs, the Emergency Quota Act, which establishes national quotas for immigrants. 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 1962, during a Democratic fundraiser at New York’s Madison Square Garden, actress Marilyn Monroe sings “Happy Birthday to You” to guest-of-honor, President John F. 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, 1984: Youngstown will serve as the operational headquarters of the proposed Tubular Products Division of LTV Steel Corp., the newly merged company of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and LTV Corp.

About 250 policemen, including undercover agents from the Ohio Department of Liquor Control and Youngstown and Austintown patrolman, raid 115 business in search of poker and other gambling machines. Gambling charges will be filed against 70 people.

The Olympic torch passes through the Youngstown area on its way from Greece to the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles.

May 19, 1969: About 250 people attend the dedication and groundbreaking for the $3.6 million Park Vista Presbyterian Home on Fifth Avenue. Bad weather forces the ceremony inside the nearby Stambaugh Auditorium ballroom.

Youngstown gets 1.6 inches of rain over the weekend.

Life magazine publishes a letter from John McElroy, chief aide to Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes, accusing the magazine of smearing a “good and decent governor” by questioning Rhodes’ motivation in commuting the life sentence of Toledo killer Thomas “Yonnie” Licavoli.

May 19, 1959: A crowd of some 200 people cheer remarks by an attorney representing neighbors opposed to a shopping center at Midlothian Boulevard and Glenwood Avenue and not remarks by an attorney for Forest Glen Estates, which is seeking a zone change form Boardman Township.

Donald L. Sheetz, a parking meter collector, is fired, quite possibly the first of a number of revenge firings by Mayor Frank X. Kryzan of city employees who worked against him in his unsuccessful bid for a fourth term.

May 19, 1934: Nine liquor raids by state and Trumbull County officers bring confiscation of more than 150 quarts of illicit liquor and arrest six men and three women.

Steel production in the Youngstown district drops to 61 percent of capacity with 52 of 83 open hearths active and Bessemer output at about 50 percent.

The proposal to organize a Youngstown Metropolitan Area Citizens Association to promote better government and better law enforcement wins the support of the Very Rev. W.A. Kane, dean of the Catholic clergy in the Valley; Ray Hagstrom, chairman of the “Committee of 100,” and N.B. Folsom, president of the Federated Churches.