YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2015. There are 232 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1607: English colonists arrive by ship at the site of what becomes known as the Jamestown settlement in Virginia (the colonists go ashore the next day).

1846: The United States declares that a state of war already exists with Mexico.

1918: The first U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, are issued to the public. (On a few of the stamps, the biplane is inadvertently printed upside-down, making the “Inverted Jenny” collector’s items.)

1935: T.E. Lawrence is critically injured in a motorcycle accident in Dorset, England; he died six days later.

1940: In his first speech as British prime minister, Winston Churchill tells Parliament, “I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

1954: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act.

1958: Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, are spat upon and their limousine battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.

1968: A one-day general strike takes place in France in support of student protesters.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: For the first time in its 65-year history, Stambaugh Memorial Auditorium on Youngstown’s North Side is seeking a liquor permit in an effort to keep from losing tenants to facilities that offer a full range of services and to woo organization that for such reasons never considered Stambaugh in the past.

State Rep. June Lucas of Mineral Ridge, D-58th, and Trumbull County Commissioner Arthur U. Magee say their winning renomination without the endorsement of the Trumbull County Democratic Party shows that the party leadership is out of touch with Democratic voters.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. of Poland, D-17th, goes to Huntsville, Ala., to speak to supporters of former NASA rocket scientist Arthur Rudolph, who was accused by U.S. officials of Nazi war crimes and was deported.

1975: Mrs. Margaret Watts is honored as the eldest mother attending the annual mother-daughter dinner at Woodland Park United Methodist Church in McDonald.

A 32-year-old East Side burglar is cornered and captured in the basement priory of St. Dominic Church by the Very Rev. Carl Brietfeller and Joseph Duarte, custodian.

Donald J. Fallet, 15, of Lowellville dies of a gunshot wound suffered while he was cleaning a .22 caliber rifle that had been a cherished Christmas present.

1965: Edward J. Legant is named plant manager of General Motors Fisher Body plant at Lordstown.

U.S. District Court Judge Paul Jones of Cleveland, one of Youngstown’s most distinguished native sons, announces that he will retire from the federal bench Nov. 4, the day before his 85th birthday. He has served since 1923.

A.S. Glossbrenner, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., will serve as chairman of the city’s first combined hospital campaign, which will seek to raise $4 million for building projects that will include new wings at South Side and St. Elizabeth hospitals, and construction of a new hospital in Boardman.

1940: Youngstown’s first drive-in theater, the “Gordon,” opens on the old Watson Homestead with an 11-by 18-foot screen that will be visible to 300 cars.

Edward M. Muldoon, a former Youngstown man, is appointed director of sales for the New England Division of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.