Years Ago

Today is Friday, May 11, the 132nd day of 2012. There are 234 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1812: British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham, who was hanged a week later.

1937: “SPAM” is registered as a trademark by Hormel Foods, producer of the canned meat product.

1946: The first CARE packages arrives in Europe, at Le Havre, France.

1960: Israeli agents capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1981: The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Cats” opens in London.

1987: Doctors in Baltimore transplant the heart and lungs of an auto accident victim to a patient who gave up his own heart to another recipient. (Clinton House, the nation’s first living heart donor, dies 14 months later.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: The suspension of a worker at the General Electric Co.’s Mahoning Glass Works in Niles leads to 185 plant employees walking off their jobs.

A federally funded AIDS testing center is expected to open in Youngstown as soon as pending details are worked out with city Health Commissioner Neil Altman.

The Rev. Thomas F. Kelly, pastor of St. Christine Church, will celebrate the 40th anniversary of his ordination.

1972: About 450 citizens, teachers and students gather at John F. Kennedy Union Hall to hear issues in the four-day strike by Campbell teachers.

The Republican leadership in the General Assembly kills the chance of putting a state lottery or constitutional change on the November ballot.

Raymond Brenner Jr., vice president to Raymond Brenner Jeweler Inc., is named chairman of the Health and Welfare Council of the Community Corp.

1962: More layoffs at the Republic Steel Corp.’s Warren Works will bring steel ingot output for the coming week to 48 percent of capacity.

Department heads and friends surprise Youngstown Mayor Harry Savasten with a cake and gag gifts to mark his 50th birthday.

The Mahoning County Democratic Central Committee unanimously designates Stephen R. Olenick, Democratic nominee for county auditor, to succeed the late Auditor Charles B. Rayburn.

1937: A Mahoning National Bank teller pleads guilty to falsification of bank records with the intention to defraud in connection with the shortage of $14,542 of bank funds.

St. Elizabeth Church in Youngstown celebrates its 15th anniversary with a Mass celebrated by the Rt. Rev. Stanislaus Gmuca, abbot of St. Andrew’s Benedictine Abbey in Cleveland. The Rev. Michael Kostik founded the parish with 114 families in 1922; it has 286.