Today is Saturday, May 15, the 135th day of 2010. There are 230 days left in the year.

May 15, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

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On this date in:

1911: The U.S. Supreme Court orders the breakup of Standard Oil Co., ruling it is a monopoly in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

1929: A fire at the Cleveland Clinic claims 123 lives.

1930: Registered nurse Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, goes on duty aboard an Oakland-to-Chicago flight operated by Boeing Air Transport (a forerunner of United Airlines).

1948: Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel is attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.

1970: Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, students at Jackson State College in Mississippi, are killed as police open fire during student protests.

1972: George C. Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer and left paralyzed while campaigning in Laurel, Md., for the Democratic presidential nomination.

1975: U.S. forces invade the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recapture the American merchant ship Mayaguez. (All 40 crew members had already been released safely by Cambodia; some 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the operation.)

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1985: Youngstown Finance Director Dominic L. Conti announces that he will retire and urges Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro to appoint Gary Kubic his successor.

The Ungaro administration gives tentative approval to a loan for Valley Foods of Austintown permitting construction of a $3.8 million facility in downtown Youngstown.

1970: General Motors Corp.’s 1971 line of Chevrolet Van and Sportvan vehicles, assembled at the new Lordstown truck line, go on sale at Chevrolet dealers throughout the country.

Mayor Jack C. Hunter pledges that the city will provide 300 jobs in the summer Jobs for Youth Campaign but urges the entire community to join together to provide 1,000 jobs.

1960: The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Continental Emsco Co. of Dallas, receives a $4 million contract for 12 structural steel cribs for underground launching pads for Atlas missiles.

Mahoning County has the second lowest per capita local government debt among the populous counties of Ohio at $129. Toledo is lowest at $122; Cincinnati the highest at $356.

1935: A telegram signed by J.C. Argetsinger, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce canal committee; William F. Maag Jr., editor of The Vindicator, and Lowell L. Leake, editor The Telegram, to Gov. Martin L. Davey demands the governor’s support for a Mahoning River canal.

A Chicago police sharpshooter ends the suffering of a St. Bernard dog stranded on a ledge 500 feet down in a stone quarry. The dog’s howling attracted a crowd and police were summoned.