YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, May 11, the 131st day of 2015. There are 234 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1647: Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.

1858: Minnesota becomes the 32nd state of the union.

1862: During the Civil War, the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled by its crew off Craney Island, Va., to prevent it from falling into Union hands.

1927: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded during a banquet in Los Angeles.

1935: The Rural Electrification Administration is created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.

1944: During World War II, Allied forces launch a major offensive against Axis lines in Italy.

1945: The aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is attacked and severely damaged by two kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa; 346 men are killed, 43 are left missing, and 264 are wounded.

1953: A tornado devastates Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives.

1960: Israeli agents capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1973: The espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case ends as Judge William M. Byrne dismisses all charges, citing government misconduct.

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1990: The Youngstown State University Board of Trustees extends the contract of President Neil Humprhey two years and will likely establish a search committee to find his successor.

The Ohio High School Athletic Association finds insufficient evidence to support an accusation by Liberty school officials that Ursuline High School illegally recruited two students at W.S. Guy Middle School.

A team of four students from Boardman Glenwood Middle School bested 350 other teams to win first place in the Ohio Math League competition.

1975: James English, Youngstown division manager for East Ohio Gas Co., says a pipeline bringing the huge supplies of natural gas from Alaska to the lower 48 states would be a boon to the Mahoning Valley because of the demand for steel pipe.

The Ohio Department of Transportation says all seven bridges under various stages of construction across state Route 11 in Trumbull County will be completed by summer’s end.

Youngstown and Mahoning County show an increase of 5 percent in personal income during the year ending March 31, one of only two metropolitan areas in the state to register an increase.

1965: The Youngstown Area Council of Parent-Teachers Association awards six scholarships to area students: Roberta Peters and Joann Puskarcik, both of Kent State; Carol Sosnowchik, Campbell Memorial High School; Anthony Maravola, Wilson High School; Elaine Glaros, South High School, and Mary Lynn Livorsky, Youngstown University.

The a capella choir of Poland Seminary High School, directed by Raymond Bush, presents its spring concert in the school auditorium.

Youngstown detectives pick up Ransom M. Gardner, 48, at his North Side home as a fugitive who walked away from an Alabama prison in 1943 and has lived a law-abiding life in Campbell and Youngstown since. He was serving a 10-year term for robbery.

1940: A 39-year-old former Youngstown vice policeman pulls a vial of poison from his pocket and swallows it after being convicted in Mahoning County Court in a morals case involving a 15-year-old girl. The city chemist’s office says the bottle contained an ounce of a mild poison and the prisoner was treated at South Side hospital and then returned to county jail.

Youngstown Municipal Railway Co. experiences the second best month of the year, showing an operating gain of $1,810 on gross revenues of $132,355.