Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2014. There are 232 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1607: English colonists arrive by ship at the site of what becomes the Jamestown settlement in Virginia (the colonists go ashore the next day).

1846: The United States declares that a state of war already exists with Mexico.

1914: Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis is born in Lafayette, Ala.

1917: Three shepherd children near Fatima, Portugal, report seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.

1918: The first U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, are issued to the public. (On a few of the stamps, the biplane is inadvertently printed upside-down, making them collector’s items.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: A union officer representing Peter J. Schmitt Co.’s Sharon workers says Mahoning County union officials “really cut our legs from underneath us” by negotiating a labor contract that will enable the grocery wholesaler to hire workers at its North Jackson distribution center at lower wage rates.

The Moslem community of the Youngstown area realizes a 16-year-old goal with the dedication of its new mosque on Homewood Avenue.

1974: Trumbull County Commissioner John F. MCloskey, who was defeated in his bid for re-election in the Democratic primary, says he was approached by “high party officials” who offered the Democratic Party endorsement in exchange for $10,000.

A storm system washing down from the Great Lakes inundates the Youngstown area over the weekend with 2.28 inches of rain at the Youngstown Municipal Airport and 2.58 inches downtown.

An 18-month old Lorain girl, Liza Eavenson, is killed when she falls through the rotted-out floor of her mother’s car and is struck by another car.

1964: Trumbull County precinct committeemen elect Warren Atty. David Dennison, former 11th District congressman, as chairman of the Trumbull County Republican Party.

Heavy thundershowers dump almost a half-inch of rain on Youngstown in a half-hour causing scattered flooding on some streets. It is so dark at noon downtown that street lights are turned on.

1939: Wally Henninger, 14-year-old Howland boy and an 8th grader at Bolindale School, wins the Trumbull County Marbles League championship after winning two of three games in the final set from Dick Worrells, 10, champion of Hubbard Roosevelt School.

M.C. Hannan’s offer to purchase the Hotel Ohio, which he has managed for many years, for $27,470 is accepted by Judge J.H.C. Lyon after a meeting of stockholders and creditors.