Years Ago

Today is Monday, May 30, the 150th day of 2011. There are 215 days left in the year. This is Memorial Day.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

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

1806: Future president Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel with pistols that leaves Jackson seriously wounded.

1911: The first Indy 500 (originally called the “International Sweepstakes”) takes place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; the winner is Ray Harroun, who drove a Marmon Wasp for more than 61/2 hours at an average speed of 74.6 mph and collected a prize of $10,000.

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

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.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: The Boardman Board of Education decides to eliminate its before-school program because of a lack of interest, but will keep the after-school portion of its extended day.

Dionna D. White, a Youngstown eighth grader and winner of The Vindicator Spelling Bee, falls in the sixth round of the national bee in Washington, D.C., the last Ohioan standing and finishing in 33rd place among 174 contestants.

As many as nine of the 13 schools in the New Castle Area School District could be closed as part of a consolidation plan being considered by the school board, says Charles Cook, board president.

1971: J. Phillip Richley, Ohio director of highways and former Youngstown and Mahoning County engineer, will receive an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree when he addresses at the 49th annual spring commencement of Youngstown State University.

Dr. L.J. Shipmon, minister of Calvary First Baptist Church, will give the baccalaureate address at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio.

Col. Charles E. Shannon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Shannon of 207 Regent St., Youngstown, is named commander of Scott Air Force Base, Ill.

1961: Youngstown district payrolls are improving, but are still far short of the $60 million to $65 million peak of February 1960, with at least 15,000 still out of work.

Thomas F. Mosure, 28, of Canfield is named first assistant engineer to Mahoning County Engineer Samuel Gould.

1936: Julian Kirtland Bishop, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Bishop of Poland, is elected “Color Girl” for the June Week exercises at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Thomas H. Pemberton is named Youngstown park commissioner by the park commission. He had been acting director since Lionel Evans resigned to run for mayor.

Phyllis Moench, a 20-year-old junior at Youngstown College, is elected queen of the ninth annual May Day.

Some 1,000 young people from 20 churches in Eastern Ohio attend a Memorial Day youth meeting at Epworth M.E. Church in Youngstown.