YEARS AGO FOR MAY 1

Today is Monday, May 1, the 121st day of 2017. There are 244 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1707: The Kingdom of Great Britain’s treaty merging England and Scotland takes effect.

1786: Mozart’s opera “The Marriage of Figaro” premieres in Vienna.

1866: Three days of race-related rioting erupts in Memphis, Tenn., as white mobs target blacks, 46 of whom are killed, along with two whites. (The violence spurred passage of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution defining American citizenship and equal protection under the law.)

1931: New York’s 102-story Empire State Building is dedicated.

1960: The Soviet Union shoots down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Sverdlovsk and captures its pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

1967: Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. (They divorced in 1973.)

1971: The intercity passenger rail service Amtrak goes into operation.

2007: In only his second veto, President George W. Bush rejects legislation to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq in a showdown with Congress over whether the war should end or escalate.

2011: President Barack Obama announces the death of Osama bin Laden during a U.S. commando operation.

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1992: Youngstown State University’s new president, Dr. Leslie Cochran, will be paid $130,000 a year, an 8 percent increase over the salary of his predecessor, Neil D. Humphrey.

Youngstown police say three men attacked two white men in the 1400 block of Elm Street, telling them, “This is for Rodney King,” a day after a jury in Los Angeles acquitted four policemen in the beating of King, an African-American. Riots in several cities left 27 dead, 1,235 hurt and more than 3,000 arrested.

Nearly 8,000 riders took advantage of Amtrak’s “Broadway Limited” passenger service in Youngstown in 1991.

1977: The Youngstown Diocese Board of Education votes to increase tuition for all high schools in the diocese for the 1977-78 school year, bringing tuition in Youngstown to $540.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has reserved more than $500,000 in housing rehabilitation programs for communities in the 19th Ohio Congressional District.

Mary Jo Moretti is named Loyalty Day Queen of the Mahoning Council of Veterans of Foreign Wars.

1967: James A. Rich, 36, game protector for the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District, is beaten at his Youngstown home by the brother-in-law of a man Rich had arrested involving trespassing at the MVSD.

Mrs. Marcus Kilch of Youngstown is named Woman of the Year by Religious Heritage of America. She is the former president of the National Council of Catholic Women, which has 10 million members in the United States.

An East High School dropout, Samuel J. King Jr., who earned his diploma through night classes and was studying pre-medicine at Youngstown University, is nominated for a Sargent Shriver Scholarship to study abroad.

1942: Mahoning County Prosecutor William Ambrose says he will fight any attempt by common pleas judges to appoint a special prosecutor to oversee a grand jury investigation of racketeering.

Judge Peter B. Mulholland brings the number of traffic tickets he has fixed in 1942 to 1,273, a survey of traffic bureau records shows.

Put the Democratic and Republican national conventions in the main gym of the YMCA and you’d have an idea of the noise level as the Parent Teachers Association honored 624 traffic boys at dinner.