Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, May 28, the 148th day of 2013. There are 217 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1892: The Sierra Club is organized in San Francisco.

1934: The Dionne quintuplets — Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne — are born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada.

1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushes a button in Washington signaling that vehicular traffic could begin crossing the just-opened Golden Gate Bridge in California.

1959: The U.S. Army launches Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard a Jupiter missile for a suborbital flight which both primates survive.

1977: 165 people are killed when fire races through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky.

1998: Comic actor Phil Hartman of “Saturday Night Live” and “NewsRadio” fame is shot to death at his home in Encino, Calif., by his wife, Brynn, who then kills herself.

2003: President George W. Bush signs a 10-year, $350 billion package of tax cuts, saying they already are “adding fuel to an economic recovery.”

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1988: Farmington High School in Trumbull County graduates its last class before merging with Bristol Local School District.

Francis A. Smith of Youngstown, who has been Big Brother to three boys and is president of the Mahoning Valley Big Brothers and Big Sisters, is named National Big Brother of the Year and will receive his award at the convention in Milwaukee.

1973: Otis J. Huff, 18, is presented the 1972 Boy of the Year award at the third annual Boys Club awards dinner at the Voyager Motor Inn.

Len Timko, Chaney High School sophomore, is champion of the Youngstown public school system’s interscholastic chess tournament held at the YMCA.

1963: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. announces that it will spend $80 million on a new 80-inch sheet mill at its Indiana Harbor works.

A white swan at Crandall Park hatches two cygnets, which she and “Pappy” swan are introducing to the world in a typically protective fashion. The curious are warned not to get too close to the swans.

During a surprise day-long safety check of vehicles on Mahoning Avenue, mechanics find that 191 of the 369 cars that passed through the point had a deficiency, for a failure rate of 60 percent.

1938: Police Chief Carl Olson vows to “smash the bug” in Youngstown after leading a raid on the notorious “Big House,” about which charges of police protection had been made.

Mrs. Dominick DiPietro, 57, dies of a heart attack in Calvary Cemetery where she was decorating the grave of her son, Michael, for Memorial Day, as she had done faithfully for 20 years.

The Monday Musical Club, which will open its season Oct. 23 at Stambaugh Auditorium with a performance of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, has already exceeded its tickets sales for the 1937 season.