YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, May 21, the 141st day of 2015. There are 224 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1471: King Henry VI of England dies in the Tower of London at age 49.

1542: Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto dies while searching for gold along the Mississippi River.

1881: Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross.

1892: The opera “Pagliacci,” by Ruggero Leoncavallo, has it premiere in Milan, Italy.

1924: In a case that draws much notoriety, 14-year-old Bobby Franks is murdered in a “thrill killing” carried out by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb (Bobby’s cousin).

1927: Charles A. Lindbergh lands his Spirit of St. Louis monoplane near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 331/2 hours.

1932: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean as she lands in Northern Ireland, about 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland.

1945: Actors Humphrey Bogart, 45, and Lauren Bacall, 20, are married at Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio (it was his fourth marriage, her first, and would last until Bogart’s death in 1957).

1955: Chuck Berry records his first single, “Maybellene,” for Chess Records in Chicago.

1972: Michelangelo’s Pieta, on display at the Vatican, is damaged by a hammer-wielding man who shouts he is Jesus Christ.

1982: During the Falklands War, British amphibious forces land on the beach at San Carlos Bay.

1990: CBS airs the final episode of the sitcom “Newhart” in which it is revealed in the closing scene that the entire series about a Vermont innkeeper played by Bob Newhart had been a dream of Bob Hartley, the psychologist played by Newhart in his previous show, “The Bob Newhart Show.”

2005: At the Preakness Stakes, Afleet Alex regains his footing and his drive after being cut off by Scrappy T in a frighgtening collision and breeze home to win; Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo finishes third.

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1990: Dr. Don Carr, an East Liverpool dentist, is installed as president of the Corydon Palmer Dental Society.

Mahoning County Sheriff Edward Nemeth says county Prosecutor James Philomena is dragging his feet on a proposal to use video arraignment of prisoners charged with serious crimes.

Joyce Pogany of Austintown is elected president of the board of directors of the Mahoning Valley Campfire Council.

1975: Dr. Herbert Armstrong, principal of Covington School, files charges of assault and battery against the mother of a 12-year-old student who he said struck him in the face while complaining about his disciplining her child.

Mayor Jack C. Hunter says Youngstown has been granted $373,000 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for its Model Cities program.

Liberty Township, which has seven motels, will have a 3 percent motel tax, becoming the second township in the area to have one. Trustees say Austintown Township has been receiving about $3,000 a month from its motel tax, and Liberty should get more.

1965: Cooper Dawson, a 17-year-old from Swaziland in South Africa will be a student for the next year at Canfield High School under the American Field Service program.

Miss Mildred Powers retires from Liberty High School after teaching business education for 36 years.

1940: Youngstown Mayor William B. Spagnola is a member of a committee appointed by the National Rivers and Harbors Congress that will make presentations to the national conventions of both political parties in the summer seeking support of a Lake Erie-to-Ohio River canal.

William B. Kilpatrick is returned to the chairmanship of the Democratic Party in Trumbull County during a riotous meeting in the courthouse that included a melee in which Leroy Marceau, presiding officer and a Kilpatrick opponent, was knocked down and a ballot box was broken open and the ballots scattered. Sheriff Roy Hardman and a squad of deputies restored order.

Three of the four living members of the Tod Post of the Grand Army of the Republic are expected to ride in the Memorial Day parade.