Years Ago
Today is Tuesday, May 26, the 146th day of 2015. There are 219 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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1865: Confederate forces west of the Mississippi surrender in New Orleans.
1868: The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends with his acquittal on the remaining charges.
1913: Actors’ Equity Association is organized by a group of actors at the Pabst Grand Circle Hotel in New York.
1938: The House Un-American Activities Committee is established by Congress.
1940: Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of some 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, begins during World War II.
1942: U.S. War Department formally establishes the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS).
1954: Explosions rock the aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Rhode Island, killing 103 sailors. (The initial blast is blamed on leaking catapult fluid ignited by the flames of a jet.)
1960: U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accuses the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that had been presented to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
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1990: Air Force Maj. Archie E. Stuart, native of Lawrence County, Pa., and 1968 graduate of Mohawk High School, is killed when his F-16 jet fighter crashes into a residential area in rural south Georgia.
Nursing homes in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys score better than those of many other communities in a 93-volume federal report detailing inspection results at facilities nationwide.
Sister Patricia McNicholas is installed for a one-year term as general superior of the Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown at the Ursuline Motherhouse on Shields Road.
1975: Marty Khoury, a senior at Cardinal Mooney High School, wins first place in original oratory at the National Catholic Forensic League Tournament in Philadelphia, and Mooney finishes fourth in the team competition.
Seventy-nine percent of the membership of UAW Local 1714 at the Fisher Body plant at General Motors’ Lordstown complex ask the international union for strike authorization over production standards and health and safety issues.
Christopher S. Lardis, a Warren native, is promoted to captain in the U.S. Navy and has been named head of fleet modernization on the staff of the chief of naval operations at the Pentagon.
1965: Michael C. Jenaff of Campbell receives a National Science Foundation grant in mathematics to study during the summer at Purdue University.
Edward J. Legant, plant manager of Fisher Body, Lordstown, predicts many of the 5,700 workers for the plant will be hired locally.
Richard S. Van Cleave, executive vice president of Bresler Dairy Enterprises of Chicago, is the new executive vice president and general manager of the Isaly Dairy Co. in Youngstown.
1940: City of Youngstown bicyclists will have license tags in the same blue and white color scheme as those of automobiles, says Joseph L Lettau, secretary to Mayor William Spagnola. The plates, costing 25 cents, will go on sale in the mayor’s office July 1.
Youngstown’s population, which had been on a steady increase, shows a decrease of 2,576 during the last decade, falling to 167,426. The Mahoning County population rose from 236,232 in 1930 to 240,127 in 1940.
Charges filed by Thomas McCabe Jr. of Youngstown alleging that U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan conspired to sell postmasterships in Warren and Struthers in the 19th Congressional District are dismissed by Justice Dallas Rogers of Dilworth Corners near Cortland.