YEARS AGO

May 2, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, May 2, the 122nd day of 2010. There are 243 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1519: Artist Leonardo da Vinci dies at Cloux, France, at age 67.

1863: Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va.; he dies eight days later.

1885: Good Housekeeping magazine is first published in Holyoke, Mass.

1960: Caryl Chessman, who’d become a best-selling author and cause celebre while on death row for kidnapping, rape and robbery, is executed at San Quentin Prison in California.

1970: Jockey Diane Crump becomes the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby; she finishes in 15th place aboard Fathom. (The winning horse was Dust Commander.)

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1985: The Citizens League of Youngstown and Dennis Tyler, president of the Youngstown Fraternal Order of Police, urge city council to ban draw poker gambling machines in the city.

Campbell City Council postpones passage of an ordinance that would give water meter reading, billing and collection work to a private firm.

During a televised debate between the Youngstown mayoral candidates, incumbent Patrick Ungaro, Councilman Herman “Pete” Starks and retired policemen Tony Ignazio, Starks and Ignazio downplay the role of organized crime in the city.

1970: Four hundred members of the 437th Military Police Battalion, Ohio National Guard, in the Youngstown-Warren area are called up to assist as escorts for trucks making deliveries in the Cleveland area during the trucking strike .

Alfred Bevak, 12, of St. John the Baptist School in Campbbell, wins the Vindicator Spelling Bee at the South High School Field House, outlasting 142 other school champions from Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

Students opposed to President Nixon’s sending American troops into Cambodia protest on campuses across the U.S. Firebombs are thrown at ROTC headquarters at two colleges, Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y., and Oregon State University.

1960: Six churches will be displaced or will lose part of their property to construction of the Youngstown expressway. Among those that will be demolished are Third Baptist Church on Oak Hill, the oldest Negro congregation in the city, and St. Ann Church and Victory Lutheran Church.

A.J. Minotti, director of placements at Youngstown University, says graduates are being hired by firms large and small, and some at startling salaries, ranging from $110 to $175 a week.

1935: A mail truck robbery in Warren, which authorities now say netted robbers $72,000, has led to federal authorities cracking a crime syndicate that was responsible for robberies involving loot valued at $700,000. Twenty-four men have been arrested.

About 30 Youngstown Communists and 500 spectators, denied access to Central Square, mark May Day on S. Chestnut Street, behind Home Savings & Loan Association.