Years Ago

Today is Monday, May 2, the 122nd day of 2011. There are 243 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1519: Artist Leonardo da Vinci dies at Cloux, France, at age 67.

1863: Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va.; he dies eight days later.

1936: “Peter and the Wolf,” a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev, has its world premiere in Moscow.

1941: General Mills begins shipping its new cereal, “Cheerioats,” to six test markets. (It is later renamed “Cheerios.”)

1957: Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, the controversial Republican senator from Wisconsin, dies at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.

1970: Jockey Diane Crump becomes the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby; she finishes in 15th place aboard Fathom.

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1986: Three 5-gallon plastic jugs filed with granulated explosives and sticks of dynamite are found wired to a timer at the Hutton Nursing Center under construction on Continental Drive in Salem.

A national environmental group files a lawsuit against Sharon Steel Corp. claiming it is polluting the Shenango River.

1971: David C. Sweet, the Gilligan administration’s new director of the Development Department, comes to Youngstown to explain how the state can help Youngstown industries meet new and expensive pollution restrictions

A 17-year-old Warren youth wanted by the FBI for an October holdup at the Lake Milton branch of Farmers National Bank is arrested after a traffic stop by Trumbull County deputies.

1961: The Youngstown Board of Education approves improvements at Rayen School and Hayes Junior High at a cost of about $533,000.

1936: Alvin Karpis, robber and public enemy No. 1 is arrested in New Orleans by G-men led by J. Edgar Hoover; a waitress in Warren, her father and her brother are arrested in that city, suspected of aiding Karpis. It’s also learned that Karpis hid out in Youngstown for two weeks before the $46,000 Garrettsville train robbery.