Years Ago

May 10, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, May 10, the 130th day of 2010. There are 235 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1940: During World War II, German forces begin invading the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and France. The same day, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns, and Winston Churchill forms a new government.

1760: Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, who wrote the French national anthem “La Marseillaise,” is born.

1774: Louis XVI accedes to the throne of France.

1775: Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, along with Col. Benedict Arnold, capture the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, N.Y.

1865: Union forces capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Irwinville, Ga.

1869: A golden spike is driven in Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.

1924: J. Edgar Hoover is given the job of FBI director.

1933: The Nazis stage massive public book burnings in Germany.

1960: The nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton completes its submerged navigation of the globe.

1978: Britain’s Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon announce they are divorcing after 18 years of marriage.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: A fire caused by an electrical short destroys the Marvondale Bowling Lanes at 4140 Market Street in Youngstown.

Carol Wilterdink is honored as the outstanding graduate at commencement ceremonies at the Trumbull Branch Campus of Kent State University.

The Ohio Board of Regents releases $1.5 million for repairs and improvements to Youngstown State University’s Lincoln Avenue parking deck.

1970: Mayor Jack C . Hunter calls for an all-out effort by City Council and City Hall to identify and address a wide variety of problems facing the city.

Seven coeds are vying for Spring Weekend Queen at Youngstown State University: Shirley Hapcic, Diane Dell Arco, Anna Marie Corvino, Jane Barrett, Carol Bradick, Georgia Elash, and Patricia Mass.

1960: A Trumbull County jury of seven men and five women takes an hour to acquit Youngstown gambler Jasper “Fats” Aiello on charges in connection with an $18,000 robbery of the Griswold Store in Warren in 1956.

Youngstown’s population dips by 2,697 to 165,633 between 1950 and 1960, while population of Mahoning County grew by 40,000 to 299,175.

1935: Lora Feicht, 12, of Washingtonville, is in fair condition at South Side Hospital in Youngstown after being struck by a discus during a track meet at Canfield. She is a student at Greenford School.

The body of a man in his early thirties is pulled from the Mahoning River at the P&LE Railroad bridge in Struthers with a wire looped around his neck.

A formal application for $10 million in federal funds for the proposed Mahoning-Beaver rivers canal is filed by the chambers of commerce of Youngstown, Warren and New Castle, Pa.