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May 28, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Friday, May 28, the 148th day of 2010. There are 217 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1533: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.

1892: The Sierra Club is organized in San Francisco.

1929: The first all-color talking picture, “On with the Show,” opens in New York.

1937: Neville Chamberlain becomes prime minister of Britain.

1940: During World War II, the Belgian army surrenders to invading German forces.

1959: The U.S. Army launches Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard a Jupiter missile for a suborbital flight in which both primates survive.

1985: David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, is abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers (he was freed 17 months later).

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1985: Mahoning County receives a $420,000 grant for housing and neighborhood revitalization, the second largest issued by the state.

Speaking to about 50 people at the 117th annual Memorial Day ceremony at Oak Hill Cemetery, Atty. Charles P. Henderson says dwindling attendance at such events is a troubling sign of the tendency of people to forget the war dead.

Fifteen descendants of President James A. Garfield join several hundred Clevelanders at rededication ceremonies for the monument in Lake View Cemetery that holds the remains of the assassinated president.

Cleo N. Zambetis of Canfield is honored at a banquet for his service as supreme president of the 50,000-member American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), Guests include Archbishop Demetrios A. Iakovos and George Papoulias, ambassador of Greece to the U.S.

1970: Russell F. Stein, 74, former Trumbull County sheriff and an All-American football player, dies of leukemia in Trumbull Memorial Hospital. He was part of the Washington and Jefferson College team that held the University of California to a 0-0 tie in the 1922 Rose Bowl.

Michael Kleojudis, 30, of Campbell, a painter for Colonial Painting & Sheeting Co., falls 175 feet to his death from the Wintergreen Gorge Bridge five miles east of Erie, Pa.

Alexandra Vansuch, spokesman for the Youngstown Peace Council at Youngstown State University, offers the group’s assistance to Mayor Jack C. Hunter in solving community problems.

1960: The Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission sets a mandatory retirement age of 70 for all department employees.

Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board agents and two Mercer County policemen raid a farmhouse near Greenville arresting a Campbell man who was operating one of the biggest moonshine stills in recent county history.

1935: J.C. Argetsinger returns to Youngstown from Washington, where he lobbied to include the Beaver-Mahoning Canal in the pending rivers and harbors bill.

Betty Zeigler, the Mahoning County entrant in the national spelling bee in Washington, is the first contestant called on. Obviously rattled, Betty misspells “status,” a word her mother said she knows as well as her own name.

Sen. Huey Long of Louisiana, “The Kingfish,” accepts an invitation to speak at the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers picnic at Idora Park June 15.

About 200 Italian war veterans observed the 20th anniversary of Italy’s entrance into the World War with a banquet and program at Duca degli Abruzzi Hall on Summit Avenue.