Tuesday, May 17, 2016
years ago
Today is Tuesday, May 17, the 138th day of 2016. There are 228 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1792: The New York Stock Exchange has its origins as a group of brokers meet under a tree on Wall Street.
1875: The first Kentucky Derby is run; the winner is Aristides, ridden by Oliver Lewis.
1912: The Socialist Party of America nominates Eugene V. Debs for president at its convention in Indianapolis.
1939: Britain’s King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrive in Quebec on the first visit to Canada by a reigning British monarch.
1940: The Nazis occupy Brussels, Belgium, during World War II.
1946: President Harry S. Truman seizes control of the nation’s railroads, delaying – but not preventing – a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
1954: A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court hands down its Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision that held that racially segregated public schools are inherently unequal, and therefore unconstitutional.
1961: Cuban leader Fidel Castro offers to release prisoners captured in the Bay of Pigs invasion in exchange for 500 bulldozers. (The prisoners were eventually freed in exchange for medical supplies.)
1973: A special committee convened by the U.S. Senate begins its televised hearings into the Watergate scandal.
1980: Rioting that would kill 18 people erupts in Miami’s Liberty City after an all-white jury in Tampa acquits four former Miami police officers of fatally beating black insurance executive Arthur McDuffie.
1987: Thirty-seven American sailors are killed when an Iraqi warplane attacks the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian Gulf. (Iraq apologized for the attack, calling it a mistake, and paid more than $27 million in compensation.)
1996: President Bill Clinton signs a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in. (“Megan’s Law,” as it’s known, was named for Megan Kanka, a 7-year-old New Jersey girl who was raped and murdered in 1994.)
2004: Massachusetts becomes the first state to allow legal same-sex marriages.
2011: Queen Elizabeth II begins the first visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland, a four-day trip to highlight strong Anglo-Irish relations and the success of Northern Ireland peacemaking.
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issues a statement confirming a Los Angeles Times report that he had fathered a child with a woman on his household staff more than a decade earlier. (Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, had announced their separation on May 9, 2011.)
2015: A shootout erupts between bikers and police outside a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, leaving nine of the bikers dead and 20 people injured.
VINDICATOR FILES
1991: Fearing a parental backlash, the principal of Emerson Elementary School in Warren cancels the appearance of Krista Blake, a Columbiana teenager diagnosed as HIV-positive, who was scheduled to speak to a fifth-grade health class.
Dr. Robert J. Algaier, a former Poland resident, is returning to the area as a pediatric psychiatrist who will take over as medical director of Belmont Pines Hospital’s acute-care unit.
Police say a multimillion-dollar cocaine ring in which drugs were shipped from Florida to Pennsylvania and Northeast Ohio has been broken with the arrest of a Hubbard Township man and a Mercer, Pa., man.
1976: Burglars break into the Cardinal Mooney High School cafeteria, stealing an undetermined amount of meat, groceries and soda pop.
High school teachers in the Youngstown Diocesan schools accept a new starting salary of $8,000 a year, $25 less than was recommended by an arbiter.
A driver fired three shots into the West Warren Avenue home of Mrs. Cleo Harshman who was struck in the chest and is in guarded condition at North Side Hospital. The shots were fired after Mrs. Harshman’s son, Stanley Clark, admonished a passenger in the car, who was relieving himself in the street.
1966: Every elementary-grade pupil in Youngstown schools who needs remedial education in reading will be able to get free summer instruction under a new federal program.
Banks already have cashed 835 food-stamp vouchers for a total of $57,000 under a new federal food-stamps program that began in May.
James Lottier, physical-education director at the West Federal YMCA, saves the life of 9-year-old Henry Gillman after the boy slipped and struck his head on the tile deck of the pool and fell into 10 feet of water.
1941:Youngstown College students fill the natural amphitheater of the north campus for the 14th annual May Day Festival at which Peg Kirchner was crowned May Queen.
The federal government will send a permanent engineer to the Mahoning Valley to install three more gauges to control water flow in the Mahoning River. Cost of the equipment and salary will be shared by federal and state governments and local industries.
One of the largest steel pipe orders in recent years – for 38,000 tons of petroleum line – between Portland, Maine, and Montreal, Quebec, is being divided by Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Spang-Chalfant Division, Pittsburgh.