Years Ago

Today is Thursday, May 29, the 149th day of 2014. There are 216 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1765: Patrick Henry denounces the Stamp Act before Virginia’s House of Burgesses.

1790: Rhode Island becomes the 13th original colony to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

1914: The Canadian ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the St. Lawrence River in eastern Quebec after colliding with the Norwegian cargo ship SS Storstad; of the 1,477 people on board the Empress of Ireland, 1,012 die. (The Storstad suffers only minor damage.)

1917: The 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, is born in Brookline, Mass.

1932: World War I veterans begin arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they aren’t scheduled to receive until 1945.

1942: Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” in Los Angeles for Decca Records.

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1989: The 27th annual Automobile Show and Flea Market sponsored by the Poland Kiwanis Club attracts hundreds of car enthusiasts to the grounds of Poland Seminary High School.

After having been drained three years ago, Lake Milton is refilled and 1,000 people turn out for the grand reopening.

1974: The Federal Aviation Administration awards Youngstown $1.5 million as the federal share toward the city’s plan to rehabilitate landing facilities at the municipal airport.

Dr. Nathan Belinky, chief deputy coroner of Mahoning County, is appointed acting coroner by county commissioners, succeeding his brother, Dr. David A. Belinky, who died of a heart ailment at 71.

1964: A 16-year-old sophomore at Sharon High School, Linda Monoc, is killed when an automobile in which she was riding struck a tree in Buhl Farm. Police say the driver of the car escaped.

Dr. John Millett, president of Miami University at Oxford, tells 652 graduates of Youngstown University that “the quest for identity by the individual is an endless travel and the advice of those who love you is that you travel hopefully.”

Youngstown Bishop Emmet M. Walsh calls upon all Catholics in the Youngstown Diocese to join the fight for civil rights by writing to their senators urging support for an effective civil rights bill.

1939: Youngstown Mayor Lionel E. Evans cuts down the first tree on the site of the new $2.8 million municipal airport.

Congressman Michael J. Kirwan tells a state meeting of the National Association of Post Office Clerks at Warren that he is returning to Washington where he will vote for the Townsend Bill, which will provide a gross income to take care of persons over 60 years of age.

Mildred Kariher, 14-year-old New Middletown girl who won the Vindicator’s spelling bee to represent the Youngstown district, places third in the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., falling on the word “farcical.”