YEARS AGO FOR MAY 2

Today is Tuesday, May 2, the 122nd day of 2017. There are 243 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1863: During the Civil War, Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va. (He died eight days later.)

1927: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Buck v. Bell, upholds 8-1 a Virginia law allowing the forced sterilization of people to promote the “health of the patient and the welfare of society.”

1946: Violence erupts during a foiled escape attempt at the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay; the “Battle of Alcatraz” would claim the lives of three inmates and two correctional officers before it was put down two days later.

1952: Commercial jet service began as a BOAC de Havilland Comet carrying 36 passengers and seven crew members takes off from London on a flight to Johannesburg.

1970: Jockey Diane Crump becomes the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby; she finished in 15th place aboard Fathom.

1997: A new national memorial honoring President Franklin D. Roosevelt officially opens in Washington, D.C.

2011: Osama bin Laden is killed by elite American forces at his Pakistan compound, then quickly buried at sea after a decade on the run. Because of the time difference, bin Laden’s death came May 1, U.S. time.

2016: The first U.S. cruise ship in nearly 40 years pulls into Havana Harbor, restarting commercial travel on waters that had served as a stage for a half-century of Cold War hostility.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: The Youngstown Pride wins its season opener in the World Basketball League, outscoring the Jacksonville Stingrays, 127-103.

Former Youngstown gang leader Willie “Flip” Williams is returned to the Mahoning County Jail from Summit County to stand trial in the murder of four young men Labor Day weekend.

The Organization of Protestant Men honors Ron Lang as Young Man of the Year, Edward R. Barth as Churchman of the Year and James M. Tillman as Man of the Year.

1977: Some 3,000 area residents turn out for an open house at the new $8 million downtown Youngstown Post Office at 99 S. Walnut St.

Gov. James A. Rhodes sends the Ohio General Assembly a $642 million capital-improvements bill that includes $9 million for physical education facilities at Youngstown State University.

Edward “Ted” Handel, a former Cardinal Mooney football player, receives his doctorate in biochemistry from the University of North Dakota.

1967: Thelma Nommay and Shirley Lott are taking a nose-by-nose dog census in Mahoning County. Ten census takers will canvass the county for licensed and unlicensed dogs.

U.S. Sen. Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania Republican and a longtime foe of the proposed Lake Erie-Ohio River Waterway, asks the Senate Appropriations Committee to block the waterway, pending a study by the new Department of Transportation.

Boardman trustees reject a proposal of Boardman Firefighters Association Local 1176 to close one of the township’s four fire stations to allow firemen a 56-hour workweek.

Junior Girl Scout Troop 307 of New Middletown sells 716 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Debra Hixon is the champion with 161 boxes.

1942: Delores Hardy of Covington School is champion of the Youngstown Vindicator’s ninth annual spelling bee. Second and third places went to Merschel Sander, East Junior High, and Margaret Adams of Sts. Cyril and Methodius School.

More than 1,000 Youngstown schoolteachers and 300 volunteers are ready to begin sugar rationing – the greatest registration in the city’s history.

Miss Jeanne Jurdock will be a soloist at the third annual free concert given by the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Male Chorus.