Years Ago
Today is Friday, May 29, the 149th day of 2015. There are 216 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1765: Patrick Henry denounces the Stamp Act before Virginia’s House of Burgesses.
1790: Rhode Island becomes the 13th original colony to ratify the United States Constitution.
1912: The ballet “L’Apres-midi d’un Faune” (The Afternoon of a Faun), with music by Claude Debussy, premieres in Paris with Vaslav Nijinsky dancing the title role.
1913: The ballet “Le Sacre du printemps” (The Rite of Spring), with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, has its chaotic world premiere in Paris.
The D.H. Lawrence novel “Sons and Lovers” is first published by Duckworth & Co. of London, albeit in an expurgated version.
1917: The 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, is born in Brookline, Mass.
1932: World War I veterans begin arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they aren’t scheduled to receive until 1945.
1943: Norman Rockwell’s portrait of “Rosie the Riveter” appears on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. (The model for Rockwell’s Rosie, Mary Doyle Keefe, died in April 2015 at age 92.)
1953: Mount Everest is conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay of Nepal become the first climbers to reach the summit.
1961: A couple in Paynesville, W. Va., becomes the first recipients of food stamps under a pilot program created by President John F. Kennedy.
1973: Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, defeating incumbent Sam Yorty.
1985: Thirty nine people are killed at the Euro-pean Cup Final in Brussels, Belgium, when rioting breaks out and a wall separating British and Italian soccer fans collapses.
1995: Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman to serve in both the House and the Senate, dies in Skowhegan, Maine, at age 97.
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1990: Austintown Fire Chief Andy Frost says a lack of daytime volunteer firefighters is becoming increasingly troublesome. He says Austintown is the largest community in Ohio with an all-volunteer department.
Gary McBride, president of the firefighters union in Warren, claims that recent cutbacks in staff resulted in an injury to Lt. Martin Thomas, who was struck by a falling timber while fighting one of two simultaneous house fires in the city. Three other firemen suffered less serious injuries.
Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro vetoes legislation transferring $90,000 to the fire department, leading to a showdown with city council over the reopening of the Oakland Avenue fire station.
1975: Youngstown City Council approves an increase in starting pay for police officers and firemen from $8,830 to $9,625 at an additional cost of about $86,000 a year.
The federal government is planning to shift payment for some 28 million recipients of Social Security from monthly checks to direct deposit in their checking accounts.
Two prominent Youngs-town sports figures die on the same day: Charley Young, one of the greatest punters in South High history, and Jack Miskell, former pro at the Poland Country Club.
1965: Wayne H. Barrett, Salvation Army advisory board chairman, announces plans for a new Salvation Army Citadel.
Liberal students at Ohio State University are seeking to overturn a rule that “subversive” speakers are banned from appearing on campus.
Three children burn to death in a shed near Garrettsville in northern Portage County. Dead are Benjamin Shockey, 6, and his brother, William, 3, and Richard D. Bolyard, 12, of Leavittsburg.
1940: President Roose-velt’s plan to train 50,000 pilots will probably mean an expansion of pilot-training classes at Youngstown College.
The Mahoning County Red Cross has been asked to double its quota for European war relief from $40,000 to $80,000; the national goal has been increased to $20 million.
Dr. Barclay M. Brandmiller is designated as vice president of the Youngstown Symphony Society in charge of summer “pop” concerts by the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra.