Years Ago

May 13, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2010. There are 232 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1607: English colonists arrive by ship at the site of what becomes the Jamestown settlement in Virginia (the colonists go ashore the next day).

1846: The United States declares that a state of war already exists with Mexico.

1917: Three shepherd children near Fatima, Portugal, report seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.

1918: The first U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, are issued to the public. (On a few of the stamps, the biplane is inadvertently printed upside-down, making them collector’s items.)

1954: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act.

The musical play “The Pajama Game” opens on Broadway.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that the U.S. Justice Department restricted federal prosecutors from pursuing widespread fraud charges against Home State Savings Bank in 1980; the bank had to close its 33 offices in 1985 after a run on the bank.

Employees at LTV Corp. have been offered an early retirement plan that could open up several hundred jobs for younger employees laid off at the Poland Avenue plant.

1970: Lykes-Youngtown Corp.’s great diversity of interests offers the corporation considerable potential for both growth and earnings, chairman Joseph T. Lykes tells shareholders meeting in New Orleans.

Stock market prices plummet on the Dow Jones Industrial average in heavy trading, dropping the level below 700 for the first time in seven years.

1960: Attorney Franklin Powers, 72, one of the leading lawyers of the Youngstown area, dies of a heart attack at his Poland home.

Preliminary census figures reveal that Trumbull County gained 49,063 residents since 1950, bringing the population to 207,978. Warren grew by 9,413, to 59,269.

1935: Burl E. Villers, Warren mail truck driver, identifies George Sargent and Anthony Librizetta, both of Akron, as the men who robbed him of mail worth $135,000.

Della M. Slagle, who served three terms in the state legislature, will be a candidate for Youngstown City Council in the Fifth Ward.