YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, May 22, the 143rd day of 2016. There are 223 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1860: The United States and Japan exchange ratifications of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce at a ceremony in Washington.

1913: The American Cancer Society is founded in New York under its original name, the American Society for the Control of Cancer.

1915: The Lassen Peak volcano in Northern California explodes, devastating nearby areas but causing no deaths.

1935: President Franklin D. Roosevelt appears before Congress to explain his decision to veto a bill that would have allowed World War I veterans to cash in bonus certificates before their 1945 due date.

1939: The foreign ministers of Germany and Italy, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Galeazzo Ciano, sign a “Pact of Steel” committing the two countries to a military alliance.

1947: The Truman Doctrine is enacted as Congress appropriates military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey.

1960: An earthquake of magnitude 9.5, the strongest ever measured, strikes Chile, claiming some 1,655 lives.

1969: The lunar module of Apollo 10, with Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene Cernan aboard, flies to within 9 miles of the moon’s surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.

1972: President Richard Nixon begins a visit to the Soviet Union, during which he and Kremlin leaders signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

1981: “Yorkshire Ripper” Peter Sutcliffe is convicted in London of murdering 13 women and is sentenced to life in prison.

1992: After a reign lasting nearly 30 years, Johnny Carson hosts NBC’s “Tonight Show” for the last time.

2006: The Department of Veterans Affairs says personal data, including Social Security numbers of 26.5 million U.S. veterans, have been stolen from a VA employee after he took the information home without authorization.

2011: A tornado devastates Joplin, Mo., with winds up to 250 mph, claiming at least 159 lives.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Mahoning County commissioners are buying a $1,300 paper shredder because they suspect people are sifting through trash cans to obtain information that should not be public, including internal memos and preliminary layoff lists.

Hubbard Mayor Albert Sauline presents city council with a $3 million proposal to upgrade the city’s electrical system over a decade.

Youngstown police are attempting to learn the identities of a man found shot to death on the South Side and a woman found in Crab Creek on the East Side. The city has 25 homicides so far in 1991, compared to seven at the same time a year earlier.

1976: The Northeastern Ohio Manpower Consortium applies for a $1.5 million grant to operate a summer work program to provide work for as many as 2,800 people.

A survey of the six-county Youngstown Diocese showed that 174,614 Catholics attended Mass on a weekly average in 1975, a decrease of 0.17 percent from a year earlier.

Richard Roumfort, of 3920 Loma Vista Drive, is elected president of the Downtown Kiwanis Club at the YMCA, succeeding Gary E. Pollock

1966: American steel firms, once considered staid and backward, are searching for new uses for steel in an effort to widen their markets and safeguard shareholders’ earnings and jobs for one million employees, including 75,000 in the Youngstown area.

Ellis Hockenberry, former Sharon resident and one of the key men in union development at Westinghouse Electric Corp., is honored at a testimonial banquet in John F. Kennedy Memorial Hall.

Youngstown will officially join President Johnson’s 1966 Youth Opportunity Campaign when the local office of the Youth Opportunity Center begins an intensive drive to uncover summer jobs for 16-to 21-year-olds.

1941:Youngstown College and other district colleges plan to cooperate in persuading students to take a three-year concentrated college curriculum before military service. Summers, holidays and Saturdays would make up tot fourth year.

John Kohler, Youngs-town’s 1941 spelling champion, spells down a row of students from Youngstown College. After four rounds, the opposition was down to one opponent, Jimmy Burt, who finally fell on “armadillo.”

Dorothy Dibble graduate of Youngstown School of Nursing in 1940, heads for Fort Knox, Ky., to serve with the Army nurses corps. She is a graduate of East High School.