YEARS AGO
Today is Saturday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2015. There are 222 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1430: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians, who sell her to the English.
1533: The marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1788: South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1814: A third version of Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio,” has its world premiere in Vienna.
1915: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary during World War I.
1934: Bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker are shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
1939: Tthe Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks during a test dive off the New England coast. Thirty-two crew members and one civilian were rescued, but 26 others died; the sub was salvaged and recommissioned the USS Sailfish.
1945: Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide by biting into a cyanide capsule while in British custody in Luneburg, Germany.
1967: Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships, an action that preci- pitates war between Israel and its Arab neighbors the following month.
1975: Comedian Jackie “Moms” Mabley, 81, dies in White Plains, N.Y.
VINDICATOR FILES
1990: A hearing on a proposed development of 418 dwellings on the old Mahoning County Home property draws 200 people to a zoning hearing in Canfield, the largest turnout in at least 20 years. Many express their opposition.
Arriving at Youngstown Municipal Airport to meet with area mayors, Vice President Dan Quayle says the “life-blood of any community is economic development primarily from the private sector,” not government programs.
Boardman Superintendent Richard Shelby says the dismissal of seven teacher’s aides and four nurses is the first of many cutbacks that will follow the rejection of a 6-mill levy.
1975: New Castle City Council increases the cost of swimming at Cascade Park from 50 cents to 75 cents for adults and from 25 to 50 cents for children.
A patrolman’s request that two illegally parked cars be moved erupts into a street corner confrontation that sends Patrolman Ronald Skowron, 30, to St. Elizabeth Hospital for treatment of lacerations and two men and a woman to City Jail on charges arising from a scuffle with Skowron and his partner, Patrolman Michael Walsh.
Gary L. Packwood, formerly director of speech pathology at St. Paul Rehabilitation Center in St. Paul., Minn., is the new executive director of the Youngstown Hearing and Speech Center.
1965: Chung Hee Park, president of the Republic of Korea, tours the Aliquippa plant of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
The homes of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Timparo, Farrell, and William Mc- Cotter, Sharon, are hit by lightning during a storm.
Clingan Jackson, Vindicator politics writer, is in the intensive care unit of Northside Hospital after surgery for a ruptured appendix.
1940: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Republic Steel Corp. join the Chamber of Commerce in seeking to protest coal prices set up by the 1937 Bituminous Coal Act, which was recently upheld by the Supreme Court.
Speaking before the American Iron & Steel Institute in New York, Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., says a steady decline over 30 years in the return on capital invested in the steel industry has created a serious problem in raising funds for expansion and improvement.
G. Harold Gordon Jr., 11, drowns in the Mahoning River when he attempts to show two companions how to swim across the stream under the new Marshall Street Bridge.