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Today is Tuesday, May 24, the 145th day of 2016. There are 221 days left in the year.

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1775: John Hancock is elected president of the Continental Congress, succeeding Peyton Randolph.

1844: Samuel F.B. Morse transmits the message “What hath God wrought” from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opens America’s first telegraph line.

1935: The first major-league baseball game to be played at night takes place at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1.

1941: The German battleship Bismarck sinks the British battle cruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three of the 1,418 men on board.

1976: Britain and France open trans-Atlantic Concorde supersonic transport service to Washington.

2006: “An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary about former Vice President Al Gore’s campaign against global warming, goes into limited release.

2011: Egyptian authorities order former President Hosni Mubarak tried on charges of corruption as well as conspiracy in the deadly shooting of protesters who’d driven him from power.

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1991: Thousands of Trumbull County residents have endangered themselves and their families by calling a nonexistent 911 telephone number instead of the appropriate emergency agency, officials say.

Mahoning County Prosecutor James A. Philomena says that if common-pleas judges take their customary summer recess from trials, his office will be overwhelmed by September. The rash of homicides in Youngstown already is taxing the prosecutor’s office, and he says a summer recess could even lead to a case or two being dismissed for failure to provide a speedy trial.

Marlin Gilmore, 18, is sentenced to 36 years to life in prison for complicity to aggravated murder in the death of Thomas J. Repchic, 25, during a robbery outside Chester’s bar in the Uptown area.

1976: The Canfield High School Belles and Beaus is becoming a familiar attraction in the area, presenting bell concerts. Canfield’s Music Department raised $5,000 to purchase the bell set, which was cast by Whitechapel Foundry in London, England.

Nearly 125 scholarships with a value of more than $10,000 have been given by Youngstowners in the name of Philip A. Levy for students at Kfar Silver Vocational School in Israel. During a program at Rodef Sholom Temple, Levy is presented with the Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award “in recognition of his many years of service on behalf of Jewish and non-Jewish causes.”

Geoffrey Frommelt, 34, of Youngstown drowns in West Branch Reservoir when the canoe he was fishing from capsized. Two companions survived.

1966: Woodside Hospital plans a tea in early fall to recognize individual volunteers for contributing to the well-being of patients, says Margaret Watters, coordinator of activities, therapies and voluntary service.

The Columbiana school board meets with architects to study preliminary plans for the addition of classrooms at South Side and Dixon elementary buildings and improvements at the high school.

The Western Reserve Cat Club announces plans to landscape the Mahoning County Dog Pound as a civic project.

1941: Fire caused by spontaneous combustion breaks out in Buechner Hall, home for working girls and Youngstown College coeds, as it approaches completion on Bryson Street. Damage is estimated at $4,500.

Youngstown women desiring jobs at the new Ravenna ordnance plant will be interviewed by the Ohio Employment Center, West Boardman Street, by Julia Begala, a representative of the Atlas Powder Co., which will operate the facility.

James Jones of Mineral Ridge has been feeding thousands of birds for many years. Recently, a bird flew over his head and dropped a golf ball. Alas, Jones doesn’t play golf.