YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, May 9, the 130th day of 2016. There are 236 days left in the year.

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1914: President Woodrow Wilson, acting on a joint congressional resolution, signs a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.

1974: The House Judiciary Committee opens public hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.

1994: South Africa’s newly elected parliament chooses Nelson Mandela to be the country’s first black president.

2006: Freed by rescuers drilling round-the-clock by hand, two men walked out of an Australian mine where they had been trapped for two weeks by an earthquake.

2011: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich announces on social networking websites that he is running for the Republican presidential nomination.

2015: North Korea announces it has successfully test-fired a newly developed ballistic missile from a submarine in the latest display of the country’s advanced military capabilities.

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1991: With 250 stores opened during its first nine years and plans to expand, Phar-Mor Inc. is seeking to raise $250 million through stock and bond sales , according to president Michael Monus.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. of Poland, D-17th, votes for the Brady Bill that will put a seven-day waiting period in force for the purchase of handguns. “With 23,000 murders last year and a cop killed every two days, we have a real problem,” says Traficant.

The R. Inglis & Sons Greenhouse on Southern Boulevard, which began operation in 1916 selling vegetable plants and built its reputation on tomatoes, lettuce and cucumbers, has transitioned away from vegetables and is dealing exclusively in flowers this season.

1976: Sally Savage, a Title I reading teacher in Roosevelt Elementary School in McDonald, is elected president of the 85,000 member Ohio Education Association.

Susan Goodwin, an eighth-grader at Poland Junior High School, wins the Vindicator’s 43rd annual Spelling Bee after a grueling 26-round match that took five hours.

More than 400 people attend the dedication of a monument to the first settlers of the Mahoning Valley at Spring Commons. The crowd included descendants of John Shehy, who with John Young and John Hillman are honored on the monument as the first settlers.

1966: A rare May snowstorm blankets downtown Youngstown with 4 inches of snow. It was the first measurable May snow accumulation on record.

The left leg of Joseph Abruzzi, 24, of Warren is blown off when a high-pressure racing tire being inflated with nitrogen explodes in a garage behind 1326 Old Forge Road.

Tickets are sold out for the annual spring banquet of the Organization of Protestant Men at Poland Memorial Methodist Church.

1941: The Packard Electric Division of General Motors resumes production of automotive and airplane cables as the midnight shift goes back to work seven days after a strike vote by United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America. The union, by almost 100 percent, votes approval of an agreement ending the strike.

South High School’s tennis team defeats Chaney, winning four of five singles matches and both doubles matches. Evanoff was the only Chaney winner. South winners included Thompson, Mason, Hunter and Bahm.

The Berlin and Mosquito Creek reservoirs, which are urgently needed to protect the water supply of the Youngstown district’s vital steel plants, could probably be built immediately under a $150 million defense public works act supported by President Roosevelt, says Congressman Michael J. Kirwan.