YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, May 2, the 123rd day of 2016. There are 243 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1536: Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII, is arrested and charged with adultery; she would be beheaded 17 days later.

1863: During the Civil War, Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va.; he died eight days later.

1890: The Oklahoma Territory is organized.

1908: The original version of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” with music by Albert Von Tilzer and lyrics by Jack Norworth, is published by Von Tilzer’s York Music Co.

1936: “Peter and the Wolf,” a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev, has its world premiere in Moscow.

1941: General Mills begins shipping its new cereal, “Cheerioats,” to six test markets. (The cereal was later renamed “Cheerios.”)

1945: The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin, and the Allies reported the surrender of German troops in Italy.

1946: Violence erupts during a foiled escape attempt at the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay; the “Battle of Alcatraz” claimed the lives of three inmates and two correctional officers before it is put down two days later.

1957: Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., dies at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.

1970: Jockey Diane Crump becomes the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby; she finishes in 15th place aboard Fathom. (The winning horse was Dust Commander.)

1982: The Weather Channel debuts.

1994: Nelson Mandela claims victory in the wake of South Africa’s first democratic elections; President F.W. de Klerk acknowledged defeat.

2006: Rene Braeunlich and Thomas Nitzschke, two German engineers held captive for 99 days in Iraq, are released unharmed.

2011: Osama bin Laden is killed by elite American forces at his Pakistan compound, then is quickly buried at sea after a decade on the run.

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1991: High winds tear the roof off a meat-packing plant at Charlanne Farms in Southington in Trumbull County.

Poland Township residents are mounting an attempt to stop Gennaro Paving Co. from building a soil purification plant in Lowellville that would treat soil contaminated by gasoline, jet fuel and diesel fuel.

A junior student at Howland High School bites the earlobe off senior Christ Hartley during a fight. Doctors at Trumbull Memorial Hospital reattached the ear part. The junior was suspended for five days.

1976: Virginia I. Lomax, 41, a nurse at Harlem Hospital and a graduate of South High School, who died in the crash of an American Airlines plane in the Virgin Islands, will be buried in Youngstown, where she was born.

Youngstown State University’s softball team trounces Cleveland State, 12-3, to win the championship of the second annual Western Reserve Athletic Conference Tournament. Jo Ann Caputo hurled the YSU victory.

1966: Youngstown Steel Door shareholders approve an increase in shares from 1.6 million to 4 million to provide for possible future acquisitions.

Mahoning County Community College is seeking the old county home on Herbert Road as the site of the college.

1941: Youngstown traffic police are busy educating motorists about what the new yellow and white painted stripes on Market Street mean. Fifty percent of the drivers stopped by police didn’t know what the lane markers were for, and one driver said he thought they were decorations.