Years Ago

Today is Thursday, May 19, the 139th day of 2011. There are 226 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1536: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, is beheaded after being convicted of adultery.

1909: The Ballets Russes debuts in Paris.

1921: Congress passes, and President Warren G. Harding signs, the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.

1943: In an address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledges his country’s full support in the fight against Japan.

1962: During a Democratic fundraiser at New York’s Madison Square Garden, actress Marilyn Monroe sings “Happy Birthday to You” to President John F. Kennedy.

1994: Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies in New York at age 64.

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1986: Dr. George D. Beelen, one of two challengers to Don L. Hanni for chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party, asks the League of Women Voters of Greater Youngstown to oversee the party election.

Youngstown’s Harry Arroyo loses a lopsided 10-round decision in Providence, R.I., against the hometown favorite, Vinny Pazienza.

1971: Dr. Sidney Berkowitz, rabbi of Congregation Rodef Sholom and chairman of the Mahoning Chapter, American Red Cross, becomes the first greater Youngstown resident named to the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross.

Annamarie Drahush, head majorette and feature twirler at Struthers High School, is chosen Miss Teenage Majorette of Ohio during competition in Lancaster..

A large group of adults and teenagers loot two grocery stores in the Hillman Street area and pelt two police cruisers with rocks and bottles and set a parked car afire before police quell the rampage.

1961: Hyman Berman, executive vice president of Saramar Industries Inc., says the aluminum fabricating firm at 4021 Mahoning Ave. He says a “favorable labor attitude” has encouraged the company to stay in the area.

Youngstown City Council approves the hiring of appraisers needed to complete planning for the River Bend urban renewal project.

J. Paul Mossman, executive director of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce, is elected president of Lake Erie-to-Ohio River Highway Association at a meeting in East Liverpool.

The L.F. Donnell Co. is the low bidder on eight cars for the city engineering department quoting $1,785 on six-cylinder models and $1,867 on eight-cylinder cars.

1936: Cold Metal Process Co. is negotiating to lease the Haselton plant of Sharon Steel Hoop that has been vacant for several years.

City Council authorizes the law department to take action to force the Youngstown Municipal Railway Co. to use steel poles, not wood, in constructing its trackless trolley system in the city.