Today is Tuesday, May 26, the 146th day of 2009. There are 219 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, May 26, the 146th day of 2009. There are 219 days left in the year. On this date in 1940, the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, begins during World War II.

In 1521, Martin Luther is banned by the Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs and writings. In 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends with his acquittal. In 1908, the first major oil strike in the Middle East occurs in Masjid-i-Suleiman, Persia (present-day Iran). In 1938, the House Un-American Activities Committee is established by Congress. In 1960, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accuses the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that had been presented to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. In 1969, the Apollo 10 astronauts return to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing. In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow. (The U.S. withdraws from the treaty in 2002.)

May 26, 1984: Youngstown State University trustees have ratified a two-year wage package with the university faculty, but guarantee that students will not pay its estimated $2.2 million cost.

Mayor Richard G. Hatcher of Gary, Ind., speaking at a dinner for Calvary Christian Academy, says talented black students should spend their sophomore year in college working for top black leaders.

May 26, 1969: Dr. Sidney I. Roberts, professor of American History at Youngstown State University, is named to the Youngstown City Charter Revision Commission by Mayor Anthony B. Flask and Atty. Paul E. Smith, commission chairman.

Ohio Penitentiary officials close the institution to reporters by ruling out interviews with prisoners and visits inside the wall. “Granting interviews with prisoners causes us nothing but trouble,” says Warden Harold J. Cardwell.

More than 1,500 people attend a dinner honoring James P. Griffin, District 26 director of the United Steelworkers of America for nearly a quarter-century.

May 26, 1959: Fifteen-year-old Richard Harter’s new lawyers believe Gov. Michael V. DiSalle can order the boy transferred to an institution other than the Ohio Penitentiary despite his life-sentence for the second degree murder of Edward Craven of Youngstown. Harter was delivered to the state penitentiary by Mahoning County deputies.

An attempt to enforce Ohio’s old blue laws raises the possibility that the laws could be used to put a crimp on county and state fairs on Sunday and the operation of state parks on the Sabbath.

Third Ward residents opposing the proposed construction of public housing indicate they would not object if the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority would build single family dwellings instead of two-family.

May 26, 1934: At least 1,000 guests are expected for the three sessions of the fifth annual Rural Life Day observance at Mt. Olivet Reformed Church in North Lima.

The Fairfield Township board of education rehires all teachers except one who had been married during the school term, putting an end to a controversy. A large portion of the high school’s students went on strike when they heard that some teachers were not to be rehired.