Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, May 19, the 139th day of 2015. There are 226 days left in the year.

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A.D. 715: Pope Gregory II assumes the papacy.

1536: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, is beheaded after being convicted of adultery.

1913: California Gov. Hiram Johnson signs the Webb-Hartley Law prohibiting “aliens ineligible to citizenship” from owning farm land, a measure targeting Asian immigrants, particularly Japanese.

1924: The Marx Brothers make their Broadway debut in the revue “I’ll Say She Is.”

1935: T.E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” dies in Dorset, England, six days after being injured in a motorcycle crash.

1943: In his second wartime address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledges his country’s full support in the fight against Japan.

1958: British actor Ronald Colman dies in Santa Barbara, Calif., at age 67.

1962: Actress Marilyn Monroe signs “Happy Birthday to You” to President John F. Kennedy during a Democratic fundraiser at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

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1990: Speaking at the Trumbull-Mahoning Police Memorial Day service, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Andrew Douglas tells about 200 officers and spectators, “Oh, they call you names – lots of bad names – but isn’t it interesting that when they need help, it’s you they call?”

Laverne Monroe, Youngs-town East High School’s chemistry teacher, is honored for excellent performance at a conference in Washington, D.C., and receives a reward of $2,500 from the Tandy Corp. of Fort Worth, Texas.

The 7th District Court of Appeals rules that Bank One of Youngstown improperly foreclosed on a loan to Salem China Co. in July 1988, but the ruling comes too late for the 90-year-old company, which was shut down with a loss of 75 jobs.

1975: Two Mooney High School students, Edward Duda and Eugene Geister, run the 20-mile route of the fifth annual March of Dimes Superwalk, becoming the first of more than 4,000 marchers to complete the march. More than $70,000 was pledged.

Summer Bartholomew, 23, who was crowned Miss USA in Niagara Falls, is the daughter of Sam Bartholomew, a 1936 graduate of East High School who moved to California after an Air Force career. She has aunts and uncles who still live in Youngstown.

More than 900 people attend a reception marking the 50th anniversary of Sacred Heart School in Youngstown.

1965: L.A. Beeghly, industrialist, civic leader and philanthropist, is named “Man of the Year” by the Organization of Protestant Men.

The Mahoning County Board of Child Welfare, considers building a new $1.2 million school for retarded children in Austintown, just north of the Mahoning County Nursing Home.

A $117,698 federal grant will fund classes in 12 local school districts for 800 Youngstown area preschool children in a “Head Start” summer school.

1940: Five hundred Red Cross posters showing a little girl war refugee, her curls peeping from beneath her shawl, her tear-streaked face upturned for help, are spread throughout Mahoning County as part of the local goal of raising $40,000 for war relief.

Andy Pecchio, Mahoning County dog warden, says strays are damaging shrubbery and gardens and warns that “all stray dogs will be picked up and those that we cannot catch will be shot.”

James C. Kemper, a Chicago insurance executive who is president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, warns that a U.S. entry into the European war might lead to national bankruptcy and open the door to a dictatorship at home.