Years ago

May 11, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, May 11, the 131st day of 2010. There are 234 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1502: Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere.

1647: Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.

1858: Minnesota becomes the 32nd state of the Union.

1910: Glacier National Park in Montana is established.

1935: The Rural Electrification Administration is created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.

1946: The first CARE packages arrive in Europe.

1950: President Harry S. Truman formally dedicates the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state.

1960: In the wake of the U-2 incident, President Dwight D. Eisenhower defends intelligence-gathering activities as “distasteful” but necessary, saying “no one wants another Pearl Harbor.”

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 the 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 30s 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.