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Today is Saturday, May 28, the 149th day of 2016. There are 217 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1533: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.

1892: The Sierra Club is organized in San Francisco.

1912: The Senate Commerce Committee issues its report on the Titanic disaster that cited a “state of absolute unpreparedness,” improperly tested safety equipment and an “indifference to danger” as some of the causes of an “unnecessary tragedy.”

1929: The first all-color talking picture, “On with the Show!,” produced by Warner Bros., opens in New York.

1940: During World War II, the Belgian army surrenders to invading German forces.

1961: Amnesty International has its beginnings with the publication of an article in the British newspaper The Observer, “The Forgotten Prisoners.”

1977: Some 165 people are killed when fire races through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky.

1998: Comic actor Phil Hartman of “Saturday Night Live” and “NewsRadio” fame is shot to death at his home in Encino, Calif., by his wife, Brynn, who then kills herself.

2006: Pope Benedict XVI visits the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland as “a son of the German people” and asks God why he had remained silent during the “unprecedented mass crimes” of the Nazi Holocaust.

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1991: The second-busiest fire station in Youngstown – at Market Street and Glenaven Avenue – will be closed when a dozen firefighters are laid off, Chief Hector Colon says.

Anthony Sertick Jr. of Austintown graduates from the University of Akron Law School. When he was born with spina bifida, his mother was told he wouldn’t live out the week, and by the time he was 16 years old, he had undergone 25 surgeries. He chose law because he knew he was going to have to work with his mind, not his body.

For the third time, Youngstown is campaigning for a port authority to run the Youngstown Municipal Airport. Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro sends letters to the Mahoning and Trumbull chambers of commerce seeking support.

1976: Authorities in Lincoln, Neb., are holding a Meriden, Conn., man in the abduction and strangulation of Harlan L.R. Anderson of Grove City, Pa., who disappeared while en route to Youngstown to purchase banners for a Chamber of Commerce Bicentennial event. His body was found near Sandusky.

Arthur Johnson, 56, of Warren was killed, and his wife, Bessie, 49, was critically injured in a two-car crash on Route 5, just north of the Cortland village line. Paul Black, a West Bazetta Volunteer Fire Department rescue worker, died, apparently of a heart attack, after arriving at St. Joseph Hospital with one of the victims.

1966: Dr. Marvin O. Looney is chosen president of Mahoning Community College at a meeting of the board of trustees. James P. Griffin, chairman of the board, will receive the charter from Gov. James A. Rhodes in Stambaugh Auditorium.

Dr. Harry D’Amato, subject of a lawsuit to oust him from his office in the partially demolished Palace Theater Building, files a suit seeking $52,000 from the building’s owner, Peter K. Babala of Norfolk, Va.

1941: Mahoning County’s mysterious home bomber strikes again, dynamiting an unfinished house on Homestead Drive, causing $3,000 in damage. Two unfinished houses on the same street were damaged by bombs in March.