Years Ago
Today is Wednesday, May 27, the 147th day of 2015. There are 218 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1896: Two hundred and fifty-five people are killed when a tornado strikes St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill.
1929: Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. marries Anne Morrow in Englewood, N.J.
1933: The Chicago World’s Fair, celebrating “A Century of Progress,” officially opens.
Walt Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated short “The Three Little Pigs” is first released.
1935: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, unanimously strikes down the National Industrial Recovery Act, a key component of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” legislative program.
1936: The Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary leaves England on its maiden voyage to New York.
1937: The newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, is opened to pedestrian traffic (vehicles begin crossing the next day).
1941: The British Royal Navy sinks the German battleship Bismarck off France, with a loss of some 2,000 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the HMS Hood.
1942: Navy Cook 3rd Class Doris “Dorie” Miller becomes the first African-American to receive the Navy Cross for his “extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety” during Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
1944: Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist play “Huis clos” (known in English as “No Exit”) is first performed in Paris.
1962: A dump fire in Centralia, Pa., ignites a blaze in underground coal deposits that continues to burn this day.
1964: Independent India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, dies.
1985: In Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchange instruments of ratification for an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997.
1995: Actor Christopher Reeve is left paralyzed when he is thrown from his horse during a jumping event in Charlottesville, Va.
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1990: Jeff Chagnot, Youngstown‘s economic development director, says a group of local businessmen came together in January to meet with executives of Toys R Us who were having second thoughts about building a warehouse in the city because of perceptions of the labor climate here.
Improvements have been made in the warning systems in the five years since a killer tornado swept through the Mahoning and Shenago valleys, but Gary Sympson, an emergency management technician for Youngstown and Mahoning County, would like to see another 25 warning sirens installed.
Ninety-four medical students, 24 of them from the Youngstown area, graduate from the six-year program at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine at Rootstown.
1975: An estimated crowd of 15,000 lines the downtown route of Youngstown’s Memorial Day parade.
Common Pleas Judge Charles J. Bannon temporarily enjoins the Mahoning County commissioners from appropriating money for the purchase of a home at 25 Mill Creek Drive in Boardman which Gateways for Better Living wants to use as a residential facility for retarded adults.
Judy Moore, 22, her daughters, Candis, 4, and Amanda, 3, and her sister-in-law, Sandra Moore, 11, are killed in an early-morning fire at their one-story frame home at 730 Lake St., Ravenna.
1965: Abe Harshman, Youngstown accountant, is elected chairman of the Ohio Civil Liberties Union in Columbus.
The Columbiana County Fair Board plans a new 60 by 100 foot pole barn to house ponies and riding horses, a growing classification.
A spectular fire, believed to have been sparked by lighting. destroys Ben’s Barn, an appliance store at 66 Ohltown Road in Austintown.
A resolution is introduced in the Ohio Senate to place a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would ban Communists from holding any public office in the state.
1940: Twenty-eight Vindicator carriers are treated to a trip to New York City and the World’s Fair as a reward for their outstanding sales efforts.
Nearly 90 members of two unions at the Hotel Ohio go on strike over the firing of five members of the Building Service Employees Union.