Years Ago

Today is Saturday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2014. There are 242 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1802: Washington, D.C., is incorporated as a city.

1916: Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others are executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.

1933: Nellie T. Ross becomes the first female director of the U.S. Mint.

1944: U.S. wartime rationing of most grades of meats ends (however, rationing returned by year’s end).

1948: The Supreme Court rules that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups are legally unenforceable.

1952: The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time on CBS; the winner is Hill Gail.

1960: The Harvey Schmidt-Tom Jones musical “The Fantasticks” begins a nearly 42-year run at New York’s Sullivan Street Playhouse.

1973: Chicago’s 110-story Sears Tower (now the Willis Tower) is topped out after two years of construction, becoming the world’s tallest building for the next 25 years.

1979: Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher is chosen to become Britain’s first female prime minister as the Tories oust the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary elections.

1984: Michael Dell starts Dell Computer Corp. while a student at the University of Texas in Austin.

1986: In NASA’s first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket loses power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety officers to destroy it by remote control.

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1989: Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro glides to victory in the Democratic primary and will face former Youngstown Schools Superintendent Robert Pegues, the Republican nominee, in the fall.

Andrew Polovischak easily defeats three other candidates in the Democratic primary for the Municipal Court seat being vacated by Lloyd R. Haynes.

Though she had been pegged as an underdog, Patricia Leon-Games defeats Warren Mayor Daniel Sferra in the Democratic primary for Warren treasurer.

1974: Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Elwyn Jenkins welcomes 39 new naturalized citizens. They hail from 13 different countries, with 13 coming from Jordan and 11 from Italy.

Two women, one armed with a pistol, kidnap Minnie Pace as she left Dollar Bank’s South Side Office and drive her south on Market Street, releasing her after taking $200 she had gotten from cashing a check at the bank.

The Ohio Petroleum Marketers Association files an $11 million suit against U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, claiming libel based on the senator’s accusations that the oil industry rigs gasoline shortages to drive up prices.

1964: The American steel industry is marshaling forces for a price battle against low-priced foreign-made steel, writes George R. Reiss, Vindicator Business editor.

Some 650 student delegates at a mock Republican convention at Ohio State University select Sen. Barry Gold- water of Arizona as the party’s presidential nominee.

The first annual awards dinner of the International Students Organization of Youngstown University is held at the International Institute and four students are honored: Luis Suarez of Cuba, Malirat Saguansin of Thailand, Antonio Go of the Philippines and Altan Eris of Turkey.

1939: Alleged operators of the “Big House” lottery syndicate and their partners had $76,190 on deposit in four Youngstown banks, according to records filed in response to a $400,000 lawsuit filed by Herbert F. Bodine against the gambling house.

The Rev. George Brown, 45, and his wife, Pauline, 38, are burned in an explosion of a stove at their home, 1112 Van Dyke Ave., which burned to the ground.

Sarah Ludt, 65, and Mrs. William J. Williams, 66, die of injuries suffered when their car was struck by a truck at Shady Run Road and Boston Avenue.