Years Ago
Today is Thursday, May 24, the 145th day of 2012. There are 221 days left in the year.
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1844: Samuel F.B. Morse transmits the message “What hath God wrought” from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opens America’s first telegraph line.
1935: The first major league night baseball game is played at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1.
1937: In a set of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Social Security Act of 1935.
1962: Astronaut Scott Carpenter becomes the second American to orbit the Earth as he flies aboard Aurora 7.
1976: Britain and France open trans-Atlantic Concorde supersonic transport service to Washington.
1980: Iran rejects a call by the World Court in The Hague to release the American hostages.
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1987: The Rev. Jesse Jackson asks Ron Daniels, Youngstown civil rights activist, to be chairman of Jackson’s support group, the National Rainbow Coalition.
Two couples, Mark Cundik and Lorrie Matteson and Steve May and Anissa Coyne, arrive at the Poland High School prom at Mr. Anthony’s in a 1934 Rolls-Royce owned by Geno Parisi, Miss Coyne’s uncle .
The 100-family congregation of St. Paul Serbian Orthodox Church, Hermitage, dedicates a new $500,000 church on South Keel Road.
1972: In a faculty vote, Youngstown State University becomes Ohio’s first state-supported institution of higher learning to have collective bargaining. The Ohio Education Association and the Association of University Professors are vying for representation rights.
George Mayle, 48, co-operator of Golden Trucking Co. in McDonald, drowns in Dunkard Creek near Morgantown, W.Va., while trying to save a 5-year-old girl who fell into the creek. Two other men downstream pulled the girl to safety.
Mahoning County Sheriff’s Detective Edward P. Nemeth is elected president of the Fraternal Order of Deputy Sheriff’s Lodge No. 1.
1962: Diamond Alkali Co., which has spent $5 million to expand its Bessemer, Pa., Cement Division, will spend another $5 million to $6 million on improvements.
A spectacular experimental automobile, the Cadillac Cyclone, is on display at Barrett Cadillac, 907 Wick Ave.
1937: The Steel Workers Organizing Coalition, having won the right to represent 27,000 employees of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., says its next targets are Republic Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.
Securing a signed contract in American steel mills is the first step toward a 6-hour work day, Paul J. Fraser, a CIO representative from Pittsburgh, tells Sharon Steel workers during rallies in Sharon and Farrell.