Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, May 30, the 151st day of 2012. There are 215 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

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

1883: Twelve people are trampled to death in a stampede sparked by a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing.

1912: Aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright, 45, dies in Dayton, Ohio, of typhoid fever more than eight years after he and his brother, Orville, launched their first airplane.

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

1937: Ten people are killed when police fire on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago.

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.

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1987: The driver of a car that struck a tree and a house at state Route 304 and Fox-North Road in Hubbard Township is in St. Elizabeth Hospital with his injuries while police investigate how the nude body of Regina Hueston, 23, of Farrell came to be in the trunk of the car.

The Discalced Carmelite Fathers order threatens to dismiss the Rev. Richard Madden from the order in response to the Youngstown priest’s failure to leave the closed Carmelite Monastery on Volney Road and report to a monastery in Washington, D.C.

1972: Science Hill Junior High School will be closed for a day to allow clean up of a fire of suspicious origin that destroyed one classroom.

Several thousand district residents line W. Federal Street for an hour-long Memorial Day parade that included 100 units.

1962:Two armed gunmen wearing silvered sunglasses gag and bind North Side pharmacist Lawrence Zimmerman at his store at 909 Elm St. and clean out the cash register.

1937: An “air war” erupts over Niles and Warren as the Steel Workers Organizing Committee hires two planes to fly above Republic Steel Corp. plants and fend off company planes dropping packages of food and supplies to workers inside the strikebound plants.

The largest graduating class in Niles McKinley High School history, 203 strong, will receive diplomas during commencement exercises at the McKinley Memorial.