Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, May 14, the 134th day of 2014. There are 231 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1643: Louis XIV becomes King of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.

1796: English physician Edward Jenner inoculates 8-year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter.

1804: The Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest leaves camp near present-day Hartford, Ill.

1863: Union forces defeat the Confederates in the Battle of Jackson, Mississippi.

1900: The Olympic games open in Paris, held as part of the 1900 World’s Fair.

1913: The Rockefeller Foundation is founded in New York.

1942: Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait” is first performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

1948: By the current-era calendar, the independent state of Israel is proclaimed in Tel Aviv.

1961: Freedom Riders are attacked by violent mobs in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala.

1964: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev joins United Arab Republic President Gamel Abdel Nasser in setting off charges, diverting the Nile River from the site of the Aswan High Dam project.

1973: The United States launches Skylab 1, its first manned space station. (Skylab 1 remained in orbit for six years before burning up during re-entry in 1979.)

The National Right to Life Committee is incorporated.

1988: Twenty-seven people, mostly teens, are killed when their church bus collides with a pickup truck going the wrong direction on a highway near Carrollton, Ky. (Truck driver Larry Mahoney served 91/2 years in prison for manslaughter.)

1994: The West Bank town of Jericho sees its first full day of Palestinian self-rule after the withdrawal of Israeli troops, an event celebrated by Palestinians.

2004: The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to step in and block gay marriages in Massachusetts.

2009: Chrysler announces plans to eliminate 789 dealerships as part of its restructuring.

2014: In an op-ed appearing in The New York Times, Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie says she has undergone a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer.

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: Atty. James Miller joins the Trumbull County prosecutor’s staff and will lead the new Delinquent Tax Collection Division.

Coach Tony Joy has his Youngstown State University Penguins golf team playing a predominantly Division I schedule with great success. Members of the team include Brian Garman, John Lucansky, Dennis Miller, Scott Karabin and Jon Jones.

Robert T. Robinson takes command of Youngstown State University’s 27-member police force making him YSU’s first black police chief.

1974: Welfare cases increased in all categories during April in Mahoning County, with 16,500 people receiving some kind of assistance, the Mahoning County Welfare Department reports.

Walter Hall, 30, of Youngstown is found shot to death off Jacobs Road in Hubbard. Hall had been arrested in November for passing counterfeit $20 bills in Trumbull and Mahoning counties.

General Motors announces another mid-model-year price increase averaging $105 per car. A Lordstown-built 1974 Vega that sold for $2,237 at the beginning of the model year is now $2,505.

1964: A gasoline truck explodes with a roar after it collides with a car at Western Reserve and Hitchcock roads. The driver of the truck, Carl Felger, 51, of Tippecanoe Road escapes from the burning truck by kicking open the right door.

Caroline Bonnell Hayward, 62, of 617 Warner Road, Hubbard, social and Red Cross leader, dies in North Side Hospital after suffering a heart attack at her home.

1939: Edward Troll, 13-year-old Bennett School pupil, is seriously wounded when a playmate points an “unloaded” shotgun at him and pulls the trigger.

John Clark, 39, of S. Hine Street and Joseph Voytko, 22, of Dixon Avenue are wounded at the dump on Dixon Street in a gunfight said to have resulted from a quarrel between Clark and Voytko’s father.

More than $100,000 is scheduled to be paid to Mahoning County farmers from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, an increase of $25,000 over 1938 payments.