YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, May 16, the 137th day of 2016. There are 229 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1770: Marie Antoinette, 14, marries the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.

1866: Congress authorizes minting of the first five-cent piece, also known as the “Shield nickel.”

1920: Joan of Arc is canonized by Pope Benedict XV.

1939: The federal government begins its first food-stamp program in Rochester, N.Y.

1960: The first working laser is demonstrated at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Calif., by physicist Theodore Maiman.

1991: Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress as she lauds U.S.-British cooperation in the Persian Gulf War.

2006: The Pentagon releases the first video images of American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the military headquarters and killing 189 people on 9/11.

2015: U.S. commandos kill a man described as the Islamic State’s head of oil operations in a rare ground attack inside Syria.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro says the city could save $550,000 a year if it turned over all jail duties to the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department.

Warren police say a 25-year-old Vine Street woman who is eight months pregnant has been arrested three times over the past week on charges of prostitution. Court action on all three counts is pending and the woman was released each time because the jails are full.

Mahoning County Auditor George J. Tablack says the organizer of a referendum to stop the new county sales tax failed to follow state law that required the filing of a resolution with the auditor before the petitions were circulated.

1976: Honda is studying the feasibility of opening an auto assembly plant in Ohio, and Laird Eckman, executive director of the Youngstown Regional Growth Foundation, plans to submit a vast amount of economic data about the area to the company.

The records and documents of the Rev. Giles Hooker Cowles, Yale graduate and first pastor of Ashtabula County’s first church, the Congregational Church of Austinburg, are presented to Kent State University by Margaret Cowles Ticknor, a direct descendant of the pastor.

The entries of Denny Howard, Sam Skarote and Anita Carano win the top prizes among 300 entries in a poster contest sponsored by Friends of the Library to promote passage of a levy for the Campbell Public Library.

1966: Youngstown Mayor Anthony Flask, speaking at the dedication of a new $80,000 U.S. Post Office branch on West Hylda Avenue on the South Side, says the building is only the first in a continuing program that will see other new government facilities.

Michael J. Dunn, a former mayor of Sharon, Pa., is honored at a dinner marking his retirement from the Westinghouse Electric Corp. plant, where he worked for 42 years.

St. Columba School is closed for a day after five teaching Ursuline sisters were injured in an accident on Shields Road.

1941: Three of the city’s six incinerators have been rebuilt and are in operation, disposing of 60 percent of the city’s daily garbage. The rest is being burned in a trench near the Cedar Street Bridge.

George H. Bishop, widely known Mahoning County resident and active in the development of Poland Village, will give the Memorial Day address at Riverside Cemetery, Poland.

Area farmers, gardeners and industrialists are happy with 0.71 of an inch of rain that fell in a period of 24 hours, but the district still has had only 6.42 inches of rain so far this year, compared with 11.92 inches in 1940.