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May 18, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, May 18, the 138th day of 2010. There are 227 days left in the year.

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1860: The Republican Party convention in Chicago nominates Abraham Lincoln for president.

1910: Halley’s Comet passes by earth, brushing it with its tail.

1920: Pope John Paul II is born Karol Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland.

1926: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanishes while visiting a beach in Venice, Calif.; she reappears more than a month later, claiming to have been kidnapped.

1944: During World War II, Allied forces finally occupy Monte Cassino in Italy after a four-month struggle that claims some 20,000 lives.

1980: The Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state explodes, leaving 57 people dead or missing.

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1985: Thirty-four Trumbull County residents are sworn in as U.S. citizens by Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Mitchell F. Shaker, the last time a naturalization ceremony will be held at the Trumbull county Courthouse.

Youngstown is told it can’t use a $150,000 federal grant as the down payment on an Environmental Protection Agency clean up of the city-owned Albert Street Industrial Park.

Warren-based Packard Electric is first among General Motors divisions during the first quarter of 1985 in savings per employee from the GM Suggestion Plan.

1970: Acid could continue to leech from an abandoned strip mine in southwestern Mahoning County for 2,000 years, an Ohio Health Department official estimated in 1965.

Jane Barrett of Boardman and Zeta Tau Alpha sorority is crowned Spring Weekend Queen at Youngstown State .

1960: Youngstown Finance Director Abe Harshman warns city departments that he will not certify any more spending from the city’s general fund.

A Youngstown delegation of the Independent Garage Owners calls on U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan to discuss the Cellar Bill, which would restrict the activities of automobile dealers in financing and insuring automobiles.

1935: The management of the Ozersky Bakery and the Schwebel Bakery say they will close due to a dispute with members of the truck drivers union.

Dr. J.P. Kenny, city jail physician for five years and a practicing physician in Youngstown for 35 years, drops dead of a heart attack while in Cleveland, visiting the Carmelite Sisters Convent with his wife.