YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, May 2, the 122nd day of 2015. There are 243 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1863: During the Civil War, Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va.; he died eight days later.

1885: Good Housekeeping magazine is first published in Holyoke, Mass.

1890: The Oklahoma Territory is organized.

1908: The original version of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” with music by Albert Von Tilzer and lyrics by Jack Norworth, is published by Von Tilzer’s York Music Co.

1936: “Peter and the Wolf,” a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev, has its world premiere in Moscow.

1945: The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin, and the Allies report the surrender of German troops in Italy.

1957: Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., dies at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

1963: The Children’s Crusade begins in Birmingham, Ala., as more than 1,000 black schoolchildren skip classes and march downtown to protest racial segregation; hundreds are arrested.

1965: Intelsat 1, also known as the Early Bird satellite, is first used to transmit television pictures across the Atlantic.

1970: Jockey Diane Crump becomes the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby; she finishes in 15th place aboard Fathom. (The winning horse was Dust Commander.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Amid calls by Youngstown black and religious leaders for a civilian review board to replace the Youngstown Police Department’s Internal Affairs Division, Police Chief Randall Wellington reassigns a patrolman under fire for alleged brutality from patrol duty to desk duty.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-17th, is taking up the case of a German rocket scientist, Arthur Rudolph, who worked for the U.S. after World War II but was later accused of having brutalized prisoners in Nazi slave-labor camps. Rudolph surrendered his U.S. citizenship in 1984 and left the country in a deal that Traficant says Rudolph made under unfair pressure.

A group of 153 retirees files a complaint in U.S. Bankruptcy Court alleging that GF Corp. cashed checks paid by retirees and employees for medical coverage but did not provide the insurance they thought they were paying for.

1975: Room rates at Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital are raised $5, bringing the charge to $78 for a semi-private room and $93 for a private room.

Hubbard teachers end a one-day strike after the board of education agrees to reopen negotiations on wages when the school district receives an unexpected $225,000 in additional funds. The base salary for teachers will be $7,900 a year.

William E. McLain of New Middletown is installed as president of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at the Neil House in Columbus.

1965: Nicky Harris, 13-year-old seventh-grader from Volney Rogers Junior High, wins the 1965 Vindicator Spelling bee at the South High Field House. Margaret Harmrock, 14, whose father is principal of Madison Avenue School, is second.

Albee Homes Inc. of Niles announces the opening of 10 new offices in North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky, bringing the company’s office locations to 57 in 14 states.

1940: Ten children are injured in a stampede after someone cries “Fire” at the Capital Theater in Farrell during a showing of Shirley Temple’s motion picture, “The Bluebird.”

A comparison of the municipal court docket and affidavits show that Municipal Judge Peter J. Mulholland disposed of 15 traffic cases in April without entering them in the docket but by initialing the affidavits noting that all costs and penalties in the cases were suspended.

The opening game of the Youngstown Browns against the Charleston, W.Va., Senators is postponed at Idora Park because of temperatures in the low 40s and a light rainfall.