Wednesday, May 25, 2016
years ago
Today is Wednesday, May 25, the 146th day of 2016. There are 220 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1787: The Constitutional Convention begins at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia after enough delegates show up for a quorum.
1935: Babe Ruth hits his last three career home runs – nos. 712, 713 and 714 – for the Boston Braves in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. (The Pirates won, 11-7.)
1946: Transjordan (now Jordan) becomes a kingdom as it proclaims its new monarch, Abdullah I.
1961: President John F. Kennedy tells Congress: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
1977: The first “Star Wars” film (retroactively designated “Episode IV: A New Hope”) is released by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
1986: An estimated 7 million Americans participate in “Hands Across America” to raise money for the nation’s hungry and homeless.
1992: Jay Leno debuts as host of NBC’s “Tonight Show,” succeeding Johnny Carson.
2006: President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have a White House news conference in which they acknowledge making costly mistakes in Iraq, but vow to keep troops there until the fragile new government takes hold.
Former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling are convicted in Houston of conspiracy and fraud for the company’s downfall.
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1991: Students for a Healthier Planet at Youngstown State University have collected petitions signed by students, faculty and staff calling for groundskeepers at the college to switch from chemical to organic pesticides and fertilizers.
Speaking at the new Tennessee Saturn plant, Robert Stempel, chairman of General Motors Corp., hints that the automaker might have to close additional plants to reach a 1992 goal of 100 percent utilization of the company’s facilities.
Patty Densevich, valedictorian at Austintown Fitch High School, is named an honorable mention on the USA Today All-USA Academic Team. One hundred students were honored nationwide.
1976: Thirteen people, seven from Youngstown, are rounded up in local raids by federal agents after indictments for heroin trafficking are returned by a federal grand jury in Cleveland.
A crowd estimated at 200 overflows Youngstown’s City Council chambers, with most of them there to protest proposals to regulate the ownership and sale of guns in the city.
Thrall Car Manufacturing Co. of Chicago plans to make a cash tender of $14 a share for 625,000 shares of Youngstown Steel Door Co. stock.
1966: Appointment of Robert W. Allen of Poland as superintendent of the merchant mill at the Struthers plant of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. is announced by T. Bruce Carpenter, district manager.
Route 18 from Raccoon Road to Portage County, which had been averaging six accidents a week, has dropped to one after the Ohio Highway Patrol’s tactical squad began strict enforcement of traffic laws along the route.
A capacity crowd attends the first showing of Salem Kiwanis Club’s home talent production, “Kapers of 1966.” Stephen Navoyosky, a Kiwanian, wrote the script and songs and directed the orchestra.
1941: Camp Y-Ota, Youngstown’s YWCA Camp, will open in June on 92 acres of meadow and woods, with 2,000 feet of Lake Erie shoreline.
Mrs. H. Morell Roller of Canfield explains the art of making hooked rugs in an article in the June issue of American Home magazine. The article is illustrated with pictures of hooked rugs in Mrs. Roller’s home.