Years Ago

May 23, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2010. There are 222 days left in the year.

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On this day in:

1430: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians, who sell her to the English.

1701: William Kidd is hanged in London after he is convicted of piracy and murder.

1934: Bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker are shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, La.

1949: The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) is established.

1960: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announces the capture of former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, who’d been hiding in Argentina. (Eichmann is found guilty of crimes against humanity, and hanged in 1962.)

1984: Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issues a report saying there is “very solid” evidence linking cigarette smoke to lung disease in non-smokers.

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1985: Western Reserve Health System officials break ground for an outpatient surgical center at the former Beeghly Estate, 6505 Market St.

Robert Noll, an explosives expert with the U.S. Treasury Department, oversees the destruction of illegal fireworks left behind after an explosion in Beaver Township. Police begin arresting people behind the operation.

1970: Neighborhood adults intervene when a gang of teenagers begins pelting four Youngstown police cruisers with rocks in the Kimmel Brook area. Police were responding to reports of gunfire when they came under attack.

Trumbull County Sheriff Robert Barnett obtains an injunction from Common Pleas Judge George Buchwalter barring a rock festival that was being marketed by an Akron promoter on a farm off old Route 534 near Newton Falls. There were reports of 8,000 to 10,000 advance sale tickets.

1960: Preliminary census reports from the surrounding six-county area shows that Youngstown is the hub of a region of nearly 1 million people.

James W. Tidd retires after 36 years as principal of Boardman High School and James T. Barr, principal of West School in Youngstown, retires, ending a 44-year career in education.

1935: Mrs. James F. Tobin, 21, is found stabbed to death on a bed in a burning four-room home at 649 W. Front St. in Warren. Her dog had also been stabbed to death before the house was set afire.

Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt dons a miner’s cap and heads down into the Willow Grove mine in Bellaire, Ohio, for a view of what coal miners do.

Mayors of Youngstown, Warren, Niles, New Castle, Sharon and Beaver Falls will testify before the U.S. Senate commerce committee on the urgent need for the Mahoning-Beaver Waterway.

Three officers of the Harvard Lampoon resign after a publishing a parody of a national magazine that was barred from the mails. John Carley of Sharon, Pa., is the new president.