YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2015. There are 233 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1780: During the Revolutionary War, the besieged city of Charleston, S.C., surrenders to British forces.

1870: An act creating the Canadian province of Manitoba is given royal assent.

1932: The body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, is found in a wooded area near Hopewell, N.J.

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1990: An early morning fire destroys the Q-Club Game Room, a popular billiard parlor at 3765 Mahoning Ave. in Austintown.

Richard Marsico, Youngs-town deputy director of public works, and Fire Chief Hector Colon say the Rescue Mission on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard will not be required to intall a sprink- ler system in the old West Federal YMCA, which would have cost $100,000.

The Rev. Thomas Mc-Carthy, pastor of Blessed Sacrement Church, Warren, is the new president-elect of the National Federation of Priests Councils.

1975: Two bandits walk into the A&P Market at 730 Market St., surprise a security guard and disarm him before helping themselves to $2,800 from the store safe.

The Champion Local School District is experiencing its first teachers’ strike as educators report to the picket line instead of classrooms at the district’s four schools.

Nearly 2,000 people attend a benefit performance by comedian Bill Cosby and singer Maureen McGovern at Powers Auditorium, presented by Ohev Tzedek Productions.

1965: Navy Yeoman 1st Class Howard F. Renforth, Butler, Pa., is among three Americans selected to join with three British servicemen as honor guard at the dedication of the Kennedy Memorial Stone at Runnymede near London.

Three Boy Scout leaders receive Silver Beaver awards at a banquet attended by 1,500 people at Idora Park Ballroom. Receiving the awards were John Wallis, Edward L. Cook and William Van Dykeman.

Lindley Vickers, Mill Creek Park naturalist, receives the Fred Myers Humane Award at the annual awards banquet of the Animal Charity League at the Elks Club.

1940: A Vindicator poll of its readers shows 9,765 against Youngstown adopting daylight-saving time and 6,070 favoring it. About 5,000 ballots remain to be tallied.

A near-record opening day crowd of 15,500 students from schools throughout the area attend the ninth annual High School Day at Idora Park.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s chorus wins first prize of $200 in the male chorus competition at the National Eisteddfod in Warren.