Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, May 27, the 147th day of 2014. There are 218 days left in the year.

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1896: Two hundred and fifty-five people are killed when a tornado strikes St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill.

1929: Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. marries Anne Morrow in New Jersey.

1933: The Chicago World’s Fair, celebrating “A Century of Progress,” officially opens.

Walt Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated short “The Three Little Pigs” is first released.

1935: The Supreme Court strikes down the National Industrial Recovery Act.

1936: The Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary leaves England on its maiden voyage to New York.

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1989: Speaking at the commencement of the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Dr. Louis Sullivan, U.S. secretary of health and human services, says new doctors are entering their field in an age of genetic engineering and powerful computers, but must also be skilled in caring for people.

Congressman James A.Traficant Jr. says there is no chance of state aid for Peter J. Schmitt Co.’s plan to build a $35 million regional distribution center in North Jackson, but the company is continuing negotiations with the state on a $10 million package.

Despite rising gasoline prices and interest rates, U.S. automakers find demand is slipping for its subcompact cars, including the Ford Escort and the Lordstown-built Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac Sunbird.

1974: Dave Hodge of Youngstown Ursuline shatters the state record in the AAA high hurdles, clocking 13.6 seconds at the 67th State Track and Field Meet in Columbus. Other local titlists include Ray Brown of Youngstown North, Steve James of Lakeview, Callan Strouss of Liberty, Rich Martin of McDonald, Frank Grant of Maplewood and Tony Blair of Alliance.

Tight rope walker Carl Wallenda sets a world’s record for length, walking 1,700 feet on a line stretched 70 feet above Kings Island amusement park at Cincinnati.

Three Chaney High School girls, Kim Kearns, Patty Forgac and Laura Luther, are selected to participate in a “Women in Engineering Workshop” at Michigan Technological University.

1964: Liberty Township trustees relax their stringent austerity program, restoring three part-time employees to the street department and two to the police department.

Capt. John A. Johnston, 33, of Church Hill, an Army test pilot, suffers burns and abrasions in a helicopter accident near Delano, Calif.

The Board of Zoning Appeals approves a reduction in the setback line at Gypsy Lane and Belmont Avenue to permit construction of a Shell Oil Co. service station.

1939: William H. Dittoe, chief engineer and secretary of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District, under whose direction the $9 million Meander water supply project was built, dies at North Side hospital at the age of 53.

The Youngstown Chamber of Commerce national affairs committee says business will forge ahead if its tax burden is lifted and that increases in business would make up for any tax losses attributed to the revisions.

The swan at Crandall Park hatches five cygnets, which park workers name Bim, Philsy, Weepy, Doc and Kitty for park commissioners Adolph Boehme, Phil Ley, John Willo, Dr. W.H. Hayden and Mrs. E.T. MacDonnell.