Years Ago

Today is Sunday, May 24, the 144th day of 2015. There are 221 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1775: John Hancock is elected president of the Continental Congress, succeeding Peyton Randolph.

1844: Samuel F.B. Morse transmits the message “What hath God wrought” from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opens America’s first telegraph line.

1883: The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, is dedicated by President Chester Alan Arthur and New York Gov. Grover Cleveland.

1889: Germany’s Reichstag passes a mandatory disability and old-age insurance law.

1935: The first Major League Baseball game to be played at night takes place at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1.

1937: In a set of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Social Security Act of 1935.

1941: The German battleship Bismarck sinks the British battle cruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three of the 1,418 men on board.

1959: Former U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles dies in Washington, D.C., at age 71.

1962: Astronaut Scott Carpenter becomes the second American to orbit the Earth as he flies aboard Aurora 7.

1976: Britain and France open trans-Atlantic Concorde supersonic transport service to Washington.

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1990: Packard Electric General Manager Rudolph Schlais Jr. and Shop Chairman Harold Nichols launch a six-month celebration of Packard’s 100th anniversary.

Liberty-based American Waste Services reaches an agreement to buy the Avalon Inn golf course and will build a corporate office adjacent to the course.

Two Warren teachers who were suspended have been accused of pouring hot sauce and lemon juice on the tongues of their severely handicapped students.

1975: Maryland transportation officials are analyzing bids for $27 million worth of steel tunnel liners to build Baltimore’s rapid transit system to see if they can award the contract to Commercial Shearing Inc. of Youngstown rather than to the Japanese firm that was the low bidder.

Ray Parker, 19, receives the Youngstown Boys’ Club Boy of the Year Award during the club’s fifth anniversary banquet at the Buckeye Elks Youth Center.

Rabbi Samuel Meyer, spiritual leader of El Emeth Temple, is elected president of the Youngstown Area Clergy Association.

1965: Hosni Abid, owner of operator of the Parmelee Market is arrested on a warrant charging him with the unlawful sale of fireworks as Youngstown police begin their annual campaign against July Fourth fireworks sales.

Mrs. Donald Oberholtzer of Columbiana is installed as president of Gamma Eta Chapter of Alpha Sigma Epsilon sorority at a dinner meeting at Courtney’s restaurant.

Paul Denison of Hubbard is the new editor of the Ohio State Lantern, the student newspaper.

1940: The court of appeals rules that about 650 railroaders who participated in an “outlaw” strike in 1920 are not entitled to have their seniority rights restored by the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad.

Inspired by the curb markets of Paris and New York, where works of artists can be purchased at a very moderate price, the Butler Art Institute opens a “$10 Top Art Salon” where 80 oils, water colors, drawings and etchings can be purchased for $10 or less.

Dr. Walter Collins of the Ohio Department of Education in Columbus will speak at the commencement of Boardman High School when 96 seniors will receive diplomas.