Friday, May 25, 2012
Today is Friday, May 25, the 146th day of 2012. There are 220 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1787: The Constitutional Convention begins at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia after enough delegates had shown up for a quorum. (It ends four months later with the delegates adopting the Constitution of the United States.)
1895: Playwright Oscar Wilde is convicted of a morals charge in London; he is sentenced to two years in prison.
1916: The Chicago Tribune publishes an interview with Henry Ford in which the automobile industrialist is quoted as saying, “History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we make today.”
1935: Babe Ruth hits the 714th and final home run of his career, for the Boston Braves, in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1946: Transjordan (now Jordan)becomes a kingdom under its new monarch, Abdullah I.
1968: The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is dedicated by Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall.
1979: Six-year-old Etan Patz disappears while on his way to a school bus stop in lower Manhattan; his fate has never been determined.
1981: Daredevil Dan Goodwin, wearing a Spiderman costume, scales the outside of Chicago’s Sears Tower in 71/2 hours.
1986: An estimated 7 million Americans participate in “Hands Across America” to raise money for the nation’s hungry and homeless.
1992: Jay Leno makes his debut as host of NBC’s “Tonight Show,” succeeding Johnny Carson.
VINDICATOR FILES
1987: Atty. Carl Nunziato, a graduate of Rayen School, Youngstown State University, and Case Western Reserve University, and a wounded veteran of Vietnam, serves on several local and state committees and commissions helping veterans.
Mahoning County Sheriff Edward Nemeth says he will conduct an internal investigation into accusations that two members of his department stole drugs and money from a cocaine dealer in 1985.
1972: The steeple of St. James Episcopal Church of Boardman, separated from the structure since Jan. 11 when they were moved from Market Street to Boardman Park, is reunited and the cross atop the steeple replaced.
What appears to be a “mass migration” of Youngstown city employees from the Public Employees Union Locals 298 and 558 to Teamsters Local 377 may explode into a political and legal battle in City Hall.
1962: Victor O. Johnson is named president of Heller-Murray Co., one of Youngstown’s oldest heavy construction firms.
Two exhausted fisherman are rescued from the choppy waters of Evans Lake after their boat capsized three-quarters of a mile from shore. W.J. Whitley, 31, and W.P. DeKatch are saved by lake patrolman J.T. Waller of North Lima.
1937: George Fletcher of Idaho Street, Farrell, casts the first ballot at the Sharon polling place in a National Labor Relations Board election to determine union representation with the Sharon Steel Corp. Early balloting is reported high.
Doris Buzard of New Middletown, the Vindicator’s representative in the national spelling bee, falls in the 22nd round on the word “gudgeon,” a small European fresh-water fish.