Today is Wednesday, May 6, the 126th day of 2015

Today is Wednesday, May 6, the 126th day of 2015. There are 239 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1840: Britain’s first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, officially goes into circulation five days after its introduction.

1915: Babe Ruth hits his first Major-League home run as a player for the Boston Red Sox.

Actor-writer-director Orson Welles is born in Kenosha, Wis.

1935: The Works Progress Administration begins operating under an executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1937: The hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg burns and crashes in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.

1942: During World War II some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrender to Japanese forces.

1954: Medical student Roger Bannister breaks the 4-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in 3:59.4.

1960: Britain’s Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey. (They divorced in 1978.)

1965: After a Rolling Stones concert in Clearwater, Fla., is cut short by rowdy fans, Keith Richards composes the opening guitar rift of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” which he co-wrote with Mick Jagger. (The song was recorded less than a week later, and the single was released in the U.S. on June 6.)

1981: Yale architecture student Maya Ying Lin is named winner of a competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

1994: Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files suit against President Bill Clinton, alleging he’d sexually harassed her in 1991. (Jones reached a settlement with Clinton in November 1998.)

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand formally open the Channel Tunnel between their countries.

2002: Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is shot and killed in Hilversum, Netherlands. (Volkert van der Graaf was later convicted of killing Fortuyn and was sentenced to 18 years in prison — he was released on May 2, 2014.)

2005: President George W. Bush arrives in Riga, Latvia, as he opens a fast-paced, four-country journey to mark the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair unveils his Cabinet, changing leadership in defense and health but keeping mostly familiar faces after a third term victory dampened by a reduced majority in Parliament.

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1990: Packard Electric’s Ohio employees could win new business and jobs or face plant closings and large-scale layoffs depending on the outcome of Packard’s war on high costs, says controller Robert McCabe.

State officials say Trumbull County is the only Ohio county trying to back out of a regional approach for managing garbage. The county has announced its intent to leave the Trumbull, Ashtabula and Geauga Solid Waste Management District.

Gloria O. Jones, who teaches English as a second language at Youngstown State University, will teach at the University of Nis in Serbia under a Fulbright grant program.

1975: Youngstown has paid six parking enforcement agents $7,000 in federal funds over a period of eight weeks, but none has written a parking ticket because City Council has not empowered them to do so and can’t agree on whether it wants them to.

A sniper fires on a Baltimore & Ohio freight train as it passed along the Mahoning River near the Market Street bridge, shattering a window on the locomotive. The engineer tells police he believes the shot came from the old Renner Brewery building.

Austintown Fire Chief Roy Ricker and five firemen narrowly escape injury in an explosion during an arson fire in a vacant house at Route 46 and Colgate Drive.

1965: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilhide are again camp directors for the Youngstown Fresh Air Camp. Invitations are in the mail to 1,030 prospective campers for five scheduled sessions.

McDonald’s Royal Swan Club gives its 14th annual swim show, “Lights, Camera, Action” at the high school under the direction of Miss Rosemary Modarelli.

The International Union of Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO, endorses construction of a canal to link Lake Erie to the Ohio River.

1940: The first report on the Community Chest drive made at the YMCA shows $99,419 of the $275,000 goal is pledged during the first week.

Clyde Lepper, 65, is burned to death in his small home 1 mile north of North Bloomfield in Trumbull County. His collie dog was found dead on the bedroom floor outside a closet where Lepper’s body was found.

Ralph Snyder Jr., 21, a former Salem High School athlete, is shot to death by a private security guard, A. O. Lower, who was called to an Alliance home where Snyder was found sleeping on the floor. Lower said he and Snyder scuffled, and he fired a warning shot, but Snyder stepped into its path.