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Today is Thursday, May 30, the 150th day of 2013. There are 215 days left in the year.

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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.

1911: The first Indy 500 takes place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; the winner is Ray Harroun, who drove a Marmon Wasp for more than 61/2 hours at an average speed of 74.6 mph and collected a prize of $10,000.

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.

1943: During World War II, American troops secure the Aleutian island of Attu from Japanese forces.

1981: The president of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman, is assassinated in a failed military coup.

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1988: On Memorial Day, Youngstown area veterans of four wars, World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam, recall what it was like to return home after fighting overseas.

Hubbard city officials respond to a complaint and clean up the Maplegrove Cemetery on Drummond Avenue in time for Memorial Day.

1973: Youngstown police nab 71 suspects and confiscate a variety of marijuana, other drugs and weapons, in an overnight sweep that culminated a one-year undercover investigation.

Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter says the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is operating in a vacuum, citing fees that would cost Youngstown’s sewage treatment plant more than $100,000 a year.

1963: Gov. James A. Rhodes pledges $5 million to Youngstown University, contingent on it becoming a community college.

An upsurge in national business activity is good news for the Youngstown district’s 115,000-strong labor force, thousands of whom are counting on stronger steel shipments in the summer of 1963 over 1962.

1938: Seven surviving members of the Tod Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, all past 90 years old, mark Memorial Day by sharing their memories of the Civil War.

Charles Sawyer, candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, tells 500 people at the Struthers Progressive Democratic Club that when he is governor, no state employee will have to do personal work for him.

The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority has moved 10 families from the proposed site of a $3.1 million housing site near Westlake Crossing.