YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, May 14, the 134th day of 2015. There are 231 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1643: Louis XIV becomes king of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.

1796: English physician Edward Jenner inoculates 8-year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter.

1804: The Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest leaves camp near present-day Hartford, Ill.

1900: The Olympic games open in Paris as part of the 1900 World’s Fair.

1913: The Rockefeller Foundation is founded in New York.

1925: The Virginia Woolf novel “Mrs Dalloway” is first published in England and the United States.

1940: The Netherlands surrenders to invading German forces during World War II.

1948: According to the current-era calendar, the independent state of Israel is proclaimed in Tel Aviv.

1955: Representatives from eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign the Warsaw Pact in Poland. (The Pact was dissolved in July 1991.)

1961: Freedom Riders are attacked by violent mobs in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala.

1973: The United States launches Skylab 1, its first manned space station. (Skylab 1 remained in orbit for six years before burning up during re- entry in 1979.)

1988: Twenty-eight people, mostly teens, are killed when their church bus collides with a pickup truck going the wrong direction on a highway near Carrollton, Ky. (Truck driver Larry Mahoney served 91/2 years in prison for manslaughter.)

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1990: Howland Local School District voters reject a proposed 0.5 percent income tax by a vote of 3,624 against and 2,393 for in a special election, a larger margin of defeat than when a 0.75 percent tax appeared on the November general election ballot.

Two years after he was unsuccessfully challenged for chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party, Don L. Hanni Jr. orchestrates the defeat of a dozen precinct committeemen who opposed him, including Russell J. S aadey, who ran against him.

Mario Elie scores the last five points in overtime to seal the Youngstown Pride’s 121-118 victory over the Memphis Rockers, the first time in three seasons that the Pride won in overtime.

1975: A former Canfield man, Dr. Richard E. Reed, is principal investigator for one of 27 scientific experiments to be conducted during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a joint space mission scheduled for July 15. He is a senior staff scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

Two Youngstown area metal fabricating firms, Boardman Steel Inc. of 7953 Southern Blvd., and Martin Nelson Inc. of Campbell, will re- locate into larger quarters in Boardman.

1965: Reports from Detroit auto manufacturers put sales of cars for the period of May 1-10 at a record 226,432. Chrysler has the largest sales increase, followed by General Motors, then Ford. American Motors had a decrease in sales.

Nora Anderson of New Wilmington, Pa., a June graduate of Youngstown University secretarial school, is chosen “Miss Future Secretary” by the University Hill Chapter of Future Secretaries Association.

Frank Cammarata, 66, former Warren mobster who testified before a Senate Rackets Committee investigating the Mafia, and then avoided deportation to Italy in 1958 by going to Cuba, dies in a Havana hospital of heart and lung disease.

1940: Atty. James E. Bennett tells volunteers they did better than he had expected in raising $260,794 for the Community Chest, although the effort fell $14,305 short of the goal.

Cleveland Alexander Newton, general counsel for the Mississippi Valley Authority, will be one of the speakers when the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce holds a forum to discuss waterway issues.

John Gaughan, Don Davis and Phyllis DeJane have the leading roles in the Leetonia High School production of “Our Town,” the Pulitzer Prize play by Thornton Wilder.