Years Ago

Today is Thursday, May 28, the 148th day of 2015. There are 217 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1533: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.

1892: The Sierra Club is organized in San Francisco.

1912: The Senate Commerce Committee issues its report on the Titanic disaster that cites a “state of absolute unpreparedness,” improperly tested safety equipment and an “indifference to danger” as some of the causes of an “unnecessary tragedy.”

1929: The first all-color talking picture, “On with the Show!”, produced by Warner Bros., opens in New York.

1934: The Dionne quintuplets – Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne – are born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada.

1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushes a button in Washington signaling that vehicular traffic could begin crossing the just-opened Golden Gate Bridge in California.

1940: During World War II, the Belgian army surrenders to invading German forces.

1945: The novel “Brideshead Revisited” by Evelyn Waugh is published in London by Chapman & Hall.

1959: the U.S. Army launched Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard a Jupiter missile for a suborbital flight which both primates survived.

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1990: Willie Bland, star player for the Youngstown Pride, has come a long way from his days as a street gang member in Queens, N.Y. The team’s most popular player and leading scorer and rebounder, Bland led the Pride to the World Basketball League title in 1989.

Ponderosa Park near Salem opens its summer season of country music concerts with Tammy Wynette singing before a small but enthusiastic crowd of fans who appeared oblivious to the park’s on-going financial problems.

William Christopher, who played Father Mulcahy on “MASH,” will appear at an American Red Cross blood drawing at Western Reserve Care Center’s Beeghly Medical Park. The drive has a goal of 407 pints of blood.

1975: Tuition in the Youngstown Diocese’s six high schools is increased from $350 to $400 for the 1975-76 school year.

Armed robbers force Mr. and Mrs. Donald Connors and Mr. and Mrs. Stan Barnosky from Connor’s new Cadillac Eldorado outside the Mansion Restaurant on Market Street, escaping with the car, cash and credit cards and a 5-carat diamond ring valued at $22,000.

Carol DeFrank, chairman of the Liberty Township Post Office Committee, presents petitions containing 4,000 signatures to U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney seeking establishment of a township post office. Township residents receive their mail from five different Zip codes.

1965: Construction of a multimillion dollar shopping plaza on Market Street across from Boardman High School reaches a road block as all of the property is not zoned for commercial development.

Atty. Robert Manchester steps down after 18 years as chairman of the Mahoning Chapter of the National Foundation of the March of Dimes.

A 28-year-old former mental patient, Everett Saunders, 29, goes berserk in a North Side grocery store, stabbing or slashing three Youngstown patrolmen before being shot dead. Sgt. Matzie Perantoni is in critical condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital. Wounded are Patrolmen John Leonard and Steve Forde.

1940: Members of the Italian-American World War Veterans, men who fought in the Italian army 22 years ago, will not march in Youngstown’s Memorial Day parade after a ruling is issued that only the American flag may be carried in the parade.

Helen Guterba, The Vindicator’s Spelling Bee champion, places 13th in the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C, falling on the word “affable.”

Alvin Griffiths is elected president of the Young Republican Club during a meeting attended by 200 at the Youngstown YMCA. He succeeds William Wallace.