Years ago

May 3, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2010. There are 242 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1802: Washington, D.C., is incorporated as a city.

1909: A wireless news dispatch is transmitted from The New York Times to the Chicago Tribune in the first such communication between the two cities.

1916: Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others are executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.

1945: During World War II, Allied forces capture Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.

1986: In NASA’s first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket loses power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety officers to destroy it by remote control.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: Major steel makers terminate the joint bargaining committee, an alliance that was the foundation for industry wide labor negotiations with the United Steelworkers of America since 1956.

The 7th District Court of Appeals rules that the city of Youngstown can call video poker machines immoral or illegal, but it cannot confiscate machines owned by Lawrence Garano that are the subject of a suit.

1970: More than 120,000 voters are expected in the three-county Youngstown area as the hottest state primary battles in 10 years will be decided.

The Vindicator wins a community service award from the Associated Press of Ohio for its campaign to win approval of a critical school bond issue for 7.3 mills.

1960: Thousands of Mahoning County citizens are held up in casting primary votes as more than 400 of the county’s 825 voting machines blow fuses because of the long primary ballots. Thousands leave the polls without voting after waiting up to two hours.

The Youngstown Board of Education approves the fingerprinting of all board employees. Initial plans were to fingerprint bus drivers, but it was suggested that would be discriminatory, and fingerprinting was extended to all employees.

1935: The Youngstown street department completes an assault on dirt and refuse in the city’s clean-up drive, hauling away 446 truckloads of debris.

The Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. in Pittsburgh says it favors a Lake-Erie to Ohio River canal, but opposes the Mahoning-Beaver rivers route and proposes an Allegheny River-French Creek route.