Sunday, May 29, 2016
Today is Sunday, May 29, the 150th day of 2016. There are 216 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1765: Patrick Henry denounces the Stamp Act before Virginia’s House of Burgesses.
1790: Rhode Island becomes the 13th original colony to ratify the United States Constitution.
1848: Wisconsin becomes the 30th state of the union.
1912: The ballet “L’Apres-midi d’un Faune” (“The Afternoon of a Faun”), with music by Claude Debussy, premieres in Paris with Vaslav Nijinsky dancing the title role.
1913: The ballet “Le Sacre du printemps” (“The Rite of Spring”), with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, has its chaotic world premiere in Paris.
The D.H. Lawrence novel “Sons and Lovers” is first published by Duckworth & Co. of London, albeit in an expurgated version.
1917: The 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, is born in Brookline, Mass.
1932: World War I veterans begin arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren’t scheduled to receive until 1945.
1943: Norman Rockwell’s portrait of “Rosie the Riveter” appears on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. (The model for Rockwell’s Rosie, Mary Doyle Keefe, died in April 2015 at age 92.)
1953: Mount Everest is conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay of Nepal become the first climbers to reach the summit.
1961: A couple in Paynesville, W.Va., become the first recipients of food stamps under a pilot program created by President John F. Kennedy.
1973: Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, defeating incumbent Sam Yorty.
1985: Thirty-nine people are killed at the European Cup Final in Brussels, Belgium, when rioting breaks out and a wall separating British and Italian soccer fans collapses.
1999: Discovery becomes the first space shuttle to dock with the International Space Station.
Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria’s first civilian president in 15 years, ending a string of military regimes.
2006: President George W. Bush, delivering a Memorial Day message at Arlington National Cemetery, says the United States needs to continue fighting the war on terror in the name of those who had already given their life in the cause.
A car bomb explodes in Baghdad, killing U.S. Army Capt. James Alex Funkhouser Jr., two British members of a CBS News crew, Paul Douglas and James Brolan, plus an Iraqi interpreter, and also seriously injuring CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier.
A U.S. military truck crashes into traffic in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing five people and sparking violent protests across the country that claimed some 20 lives.
2011: A week after Joplin, Mo., was nearly leveled by the deadliest tornado to strike the U.S in decades, President Barack Obama visits the city to offer hope to survivors and promises of help.
JR Hildebrand is one turn away from winning the Indianapolis 500 when he skidded high into the wall on the final turn and Dan Wheldon drove past to claim an improbable second Indy 500 win in his first race of the year.
2015: The Obama administration formally removes Cuba from the U.S. terrorism blacklist.
Nigeria’s new president, Muhammadu Buhari, is sworn in with a pledge to tackle the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram “head on.” Veteran character actress and comedienne Betsy Palmer, 88, dies in Danbury, Conn.
VINDICATOR FILES
1991: Sil Caggiano, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2812, says the union will file suit against the city of Youngstown if any part-time employees are hired to run the summer park program before full-time employees who have been laid off are called back to work.
Two young men – Mark Badillo and Jeffrey McClure – plead innocent to charges of murder, abuse of a corpse and obstruction of justice in the death of Timothy Badillo of Weathersfield.
Meander Brewing Co., the area’s first “brew pub” and the sixth in Ohio, is opened by Glen and Sandra Wright of Canfield in the former Dutch Pantry restaurant at 5011 Mahoning Ave. in Austintown.
1976: A crowd of 1,000 greets Jimmy Carter, candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, on his arrival at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Youngstown Law Director William J. Higgins and City Engineer Edmund J. Salata warn city officials in a letter that the Youngstown Municipal Airport will have to be closed to commercial airline traffic within a year unless extensive rehabilitation work is performed on its main runway.
Joseph R. Neskovich, 18, a senior at Liberty High School, is killed when his car hit a guardrail on the Ohio Turnpike, near the Elyria exit. He and a passenger, who was injured, had attended the Liberty prom and were en route to Cedar Point when Neskovich apparently fell asleep at the wheel.
1966: Youngstown University is renaming its main building in honor of Dr. Howard W. Jones, its first president, who is retiring after 35 years of service.
A buffet luncheon, a reception and a solemn High Mass will be held in Warren as the Right Rev. William P. Dunn, pastor of St. Mary Church, marks the 40th anniversary of his ordination.
1941: At a meeting at the Southern Hills Country Club, Youngstown Mayor William Spagnola asks for the cooperation of the South Side Merchants & Civic Association in the city’s campaign for a special operating levy.
Against a backdrop of steel mills busy turning out defense orders, the city of Youngstown will pay tribute to its soldier dead on Memorial Day. There will be a parade of 55 units, a sunrise service at Mill Creek Park and ceremonies at various cemeteries.