Today is Sunday, May 16, the 136th day of 2010. There are 229 days left in the year.

May 16, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1770: Marie Antoinette, age 14, marries the future King Louis XVI of France, who is 15.

1866: Congress authorizes minting of the first five-cent piece, also known as the “Shield nickel.”

1868: The Senate fails by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it takes its first ballot on the 11 articles of impeachment against him.

1910: The U.S Bureau of Mines is established. (It ceases operations in 1996, its functions having been transferred to other agencies.)

1929: The first Academy Awards are presented. The movie “Wings” wins “best production,” while Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor are named best actor and best actress.

1939: The government begins its first food stamp program in Rochester, N.Y.

1960: A Big Four summit conference in Paris collapses on its opening day as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev demands, but does not receive, an apology from President Dwight D. Eisenhower over the U-2 incident.

The first working laser is demonstrated at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Calif., by physicist Theodore Maiman.

1990: Death claims entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. in Los Angeles at age 64 and “Muppets” creator Jim Henson in New York at age 53.

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1985: Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro says he expects “special interests” to challenge a law passed by City Council outlawing electronic draw poker machines but he believes the city is on solid ground.

A hostile throng of area teachers express their opposition to proposed competency testing and stricter academic requirements for Ohio teachers during a hearing at the Mahoning County Joint Vocational School.

Youngstown officials are optimistic that the Department of Housing and Urban Development will approve changes for financing the proposed Ronneburg Brewery at Youngstown Commerce Park.

Dr. Louis Zona, director of the Butler Institute of American Art, is honored by the Youngstown Junior League for 25 years of participation in the League’s Arts Holiday program.

1970: Youngstown State University officials decide to carry on with Spring Weekend, the opening events of which were marred when a militant group smashed windows and set fire to an amphitheater tent.

Jack Sulligan, chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party since 1949, is re-elected to a two-year term during an organization meeting of the party central committee.

Youngstown City Council adopts a $5 license plate tax that will provide $350,000 per year for road construction and repairs.

The Ohio Supreme Court upholds a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court decision holding that all motor vehicle liability insurance policies include protection against uninsured motorists.

1960: Dennis P. Gillespie, 15, an Ursuline High sophomore, wins the Ohio state championship in the Optimist International oratorical contest.

Floyd Trevis, Youngstown mechanic, qualifies two cars for the Indianapolis 500 race. He built three cars for millionaire industrialist Jim Robbins of Royal Oak, Mich.

The Youngstown area will get its second McDonald’s Drive-In Restaurant, at 1990 McCartney Road. The first on is at Routes 224 and 7 in Boardman.

1935: Col. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. visits the Ohio House of Representatives, but the best efforts of reporters fail to elicit a statement from him on the Mahoning-Beaver rivers canal.

Some 225 members of the First Baptist Church of Youngstown are delighted by stories of the church’s early days told during the 75th annual dinner.

City police arrest their 20th relief chiseler in a continuing crackdown. The Oakland Avenue man was accused of getting a $3.55 grocery order through relief, even though he’d earned $78 in the preceding month.