YEARS AGO

May 30, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Sunday, May 30, the 150th day of 2010. There are 215 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1431: Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, is burned at the stake in Rouen, France.

1883: Twelve people are trampled to death when a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in imminent danger of collapsing triggered a stampede.

1911: Indianapolis sees its first long-distance auto race; Ray Harroun is the winner.

1922: The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington in a ceremony attended by President Warren G. Harding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln.

1937: Ten people are killed when police fire on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago.

1943: American forces secure the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II.

1958: Unidentified American service members killed in World War II and the Korean War are interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.

1960: Soviet author and poet Boris Pasternak (“Doctor Zhivago”) dies at 70.

2000: Former Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey dies in Scranton at 68.

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1985: The Black Leadership Summit Council presents Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro with a list of five demands, including development of a multi-million dollar economic development fund to help black businesses.

City Council president Michael Crogan says the city has dwindled in size, questioning a proposal by Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro and Police Chief Randall Wellington to hire more uniformed officers.

A bill providing for more stringent fireworks regulation and increasing the penalty for illegally manufacturing explosives that had been stalled in the Ohio Senate passes easily, gaining support after an explosion outside Youngstown of an illegal plant killed nine people.

1970: For the first time in the 168-year history of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a Youngstown man’s name will be perpetually enshrined on a marble plaque in the academy’s entryway. Lt. Col. Andre George Broumas, who died Sept. 3, 1969, when his aircraft was shot down over Vietnam, is honored with the Superintendent’s Award.

Donna Vantell, a sophomore education major at Youngstown State University, is named Sweetheart of Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, at YSU.

1960: Nello Ronci, 39, and three other Youngstown men are arrested by Erie, Pa., police on charges of being common gamblers. Police say they found a case of crooked dice in their motel room that could be used to roll any combination the “gambler” wanted.

A New Castle auxiliary policeman faces suspension of his driver’s license after pleading guilty to driven 100 mph in Route 422 during a seven mile chase by a state trooper. He said he thought a friend was chasing him.

George C. Brainard, prominent area industrialist and former president of General Fireproofing Co., is honored on his 75th birthday with a reception at the Forest Glen home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. And Mrs. Daniel A. Heindel Jr.

1935: A new streamlined steam train, the Abraham Lincoln, which is outfitted with aluminum chairs made by General Fireproofing Co. will be on display for three hours at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Youngstown.

Police chief Leroy Goodwin and his son, Dr. Vernon Goodwin, a recent graduate of Western Reserve Medical School, fly to New York and will take a cruise to Bermuda before Dr. Goodwin begins an internship at North Side Hospital.

There’s a strong baseball card for Memorial Day in Youngstown, including five Slovak League contests. St. Stan’s will play a double bill against Akron at Idora Park.