Years Ago

Today is Thursday, May 17, the 138th day of 2012. There are 228 days left in the year.

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1792: The New York Stock Exchange has its origins as a group of brokers meet under a tree on Wall Street.

1912: The Socialist Party of America nominates Eugene V. Debs for president at its convention in Indianapolis.

1946: President Harry S. Truman seizes control of the nation’s railroads, delaying — but not preventing — a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.

1954: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, unanimously strikes down racially segregated public schools.

1987: Thirty-seven American sailors are killed when an Iraqi warplane attacks the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf. (Iraq apologizes and pays more than $27 million in compensation.)

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1987: The Ohio Department of Natural Resources says the state will definitely take responsibility for Lake Milton from the city of Youngstown.

Top officials of the New Avanti Corp. tour what will be their new home, the Ross Industrial Park on Albert Street in Youngstown.

The Office of Veterans Affairs is looking at the Ravenna Arsenal as the possible site of a new national cemetery,

1972: A $6.5 million, 13-story Holiday Inn with an attached parking deck is approved by the Youngstown Development Review Committee for construction on the site of the former Tod Hotel at Market and Boardman streets.

Christine Quartini of Masury receives the Committee on Women’s Outstanding Scholar Award at the 13th annual Honor and Awards Day program at Youngstown State University.

The Poland Board of Education authorizes Superintendent Milan Pavkov to create a special class for neurologically impaired students, which would serve eight to 10 students under 14 years of age.

1962: Union carpenters end their strike against Kesk Inc., contractor for the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority’s new public housing projects.

Youngstown Intelligence and Security Squad members nab two men and a woman with drugs and paraphernalia used by addicts in a raid at 368 Cohasset Drive.

A mysterious fire guts a storage room at the L.F. Hoffman Plumbing & Heating Co., 581 Mahoning Ave., causing an estimated $6,000 damage.

1937: Stephen Troxil, a quiet, popular barber for Eddie Carfora in Youngstown, is reported serving with the Loyalists in the Spanish civil war.

The wind scatters a packet of money of 5, 10 and 20 dollar bills along Fifth Avenue at the edge of Wick Park, causing a scramble by young and old who happened to be in the area. The source of the cash is unknown, but police suspect it may have been the loot from a $1,000 robbery at the Trails End Tavern in Vienna or $700 taken from the Western Auto Supply Store on Market Street overnight.