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May 6, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, May 6, the 126th day of 2010. There are 239 days left in the year.

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1859: Georgia miner John H. Gregory discovers a lode of gold in Colorado.

1889: The Paris Exposition formally opens, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.

1910: Britain’s Edwardian era comes to an end upon the death of King Edward VII; he is succeeded by George V.

1935: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration.

1937: The hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg burns and crashes in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.

1954: Medical student Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds.

1960: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

Britain’s Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey. (They divorce in 1978.)

2002: Right-wing Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is shot and killed in Hilversum, Netherlands. (Volkert van der Graaf, convicted of the killing, is sentenced to 18 years in prison.)

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1985: Elie Wiesel, the first Berkowitz Lecturer at Congregation Rodef Sholom, says now that President Ronald Reagan’s visit to a cemetery where nearly 50 SS troopers are buried is over, Jews must put the incident in the past and work with the president on mutual interests.

The Rev. Peter E. Campbell, the Rev. Gerald Paul and the Rev. Henry Einhaus mark the 25th anniversary of their ordinations with a Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Maron Church.

1970: Congressman Robert Taft defeats Gov. James Rhodes for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and in November will face Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, who defeated former astronaut John Glenn.

State Sen. Charles Carney defeats Atty. Richard McLaughlin for the Democratic nomination and will face Republican Margaret Dennison in the November race for the 19th Congressional District.

Harry Meshel, former director of Youngstown’s urban renewal department, will be the Democratic candidate for the state Senate seat being vacated by Charles Carney.

1960: Nineteen Mahoning County eighth graders who took statewide comprehensive scholarship tests are in the upper 1 percent throughout Ohio.

Mahoning County Prosecutor Harold Hull tells the Board of Elections to go ahead with the official count of the primary election results in spite of pending court action to negate the election and a state investigation into machine malfunctions.

1935: About 1,500 junior and senior high school students walk out on strike, demanding the retention of four teachers who are under fire from Supt. H.E. Zuber.

The Mahoning County grand jury declines to indict four people accused of murder, a woman charged with killing her husband as he slept and three men accused of killing a man during a fight on Rayen Avenue.