Years Ago

Today is Friday, May 20, the 140th day of 2011. There are 225 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1902: The United States ends a three-year military presence in Cuba as the Republic of Cuba was established under its first elected president, Tomas Estrada Palma.

1927: Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France.

1959: Nearly 5,000 Japanese-Americans have their citizenship restored after renouncing it during World War II.

1961: A white mob attacks a busload of Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Ala., prompting the federal government to send in U.S. marshals.

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1986: Ted Rupe of Warren, a geometry teacher at LaBrae High in Trumbull County, wins the Revco-Cleveland Marathon with a time of 2 hours, 23 minutes, 6 seconds.

As part of Ohio Historic Preservation Month, volunteers survey Youngstown’s North Side, collecting information on the design and condition of historic or architecturally unique structures.

1971: A Hillman Street grocery store, the center of two nights of violence, is damaged extensively by fire and another store is looted as violence continues in the Youngstown neighborhood. Mayor Jack C. Hunter, who was driving through the area to a city council meeting, has his car pelted with stones and bottles.

Youngstown City Council approves a new salary ordinance covering those departments that have settled labor negotiations, including the police department. Police will get a 4 percent pay raise, effective immediately, bringing the base pay for a two-year patrolman to $8,278.

1961:A night attendant at Wayne’s Top Value Service Station on Logan Avenue is robbed for the second time in two weeks when two bandits tie him up with his own trousers and flee with $108.

Thousands of Youngstown residents line both sides of Federal Street to watch reserve units of the Army, Navy and Air Force display their battle-readiness in a 15 minute Armed Forces Day parade.

1936: Hundreds of mourners and an estimated 2,000 spectators are at St. Brendan Church for the funeral of seven people killed when their car struck a train after leaving the church where Marjorie Carrozino and Augustine Patros had been married four days earlier. All were related to the bride and groom. A cortege of 261 cars went from the church to Calvary Cemetery.