YEARS AGO FOR MAY 3

Today is Wednesday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2017. There are 242 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1515: Pope Leo X promulgates the bull “Inter sollicitudines” allowing the Catholic Church to review and censor books.

1802: Washington, D.C., is incorporated as a city.

1937: Margaret Mitchell wins the Pulitzer Prize for her novel “Gone with the Wind.”

1952: The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time on CBS. (The winner was Hill Gail, ridden by Eddie Arcaro.)

1979: Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher is chosen to become Britain’s first female prime minister as the Tories oust the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary elections.

1987: The Miami Herald says reporters observed a young woman spending “Friday night and most of Saturday” at a Washington townhouse belonging to Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart. (The woman was later identified as Donna Rice; the resulting controversy torpedoed Hart’s presidential bid.)

1999: Some 70 tornadoes roar across Oklahoma and Kansas, killing 46 people and injuring hundreds.

2012: U.S. officials publish online a selection of letters from Osama bin Laden’s last hideaway; the documents portray a network that was weak, inept and under siege – and its leader seemingly near wit’s end about the passing of his global jihad’s supposed glory days.

2016: In a stunning triumph for a political outsider, Donald Trump all but clinches the Republican presidential nomination with a resounding victory in Indiana that knocks rival Ted Cruz out of the race.

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1992:Acquittals in recent murder trials have prompted Mahoning County Prosecutor James Philomena to demand more evidence from police before he takes a case to the grand jury.

The Niles Masonic Lodge 394, F&AM, is planning a 125th anniversary celebration.

Youngstown State University’s 1991 Penguins receive their championship rings during YSU’s Red-White scrimmage for winning the NCAA Division I-AA national championship.

1977: A Cortland man and his wife, Fred and Frances DeGood, are injured when their car is struck by a train at a crossing on Warren- Sharon Road in Brookfield Township.

Retired General Motors President Edward N. Cole, an inventive genius who designed the ill-fated Corvair and advocated for air bags and rotary engines, dies when his twin-engine plane crashes near Kalamazoo, Mich.

Major crime fell 27 percent in Youngstown during the first three months of 1977 compared with the same months in 1976.

1967: Anthony B. Flask wins the Democratic nomination for a third term as mayor of Youngstown; Rocco F. Mico wins the Democratic nomination for mayor of Campbell and Joseph J. Baldine wins the Democratic nomination for mayor of Hubbard.

Ten area students are among 2,400 of the nation’s ablest named National Merit Scholars. They are Jay Dougherty, Douglas Miller, Linda Brandenberg, Evan Lim, Douglas Pratt, Kathleen Emrich, Charles Hefling Jr., Gregory Tracy, Bonnie Frank and Douglas Simpson.

1942: Mahoning County common pleas judges appeal to Gov. John Bricker to ask the attorney general to convene a special grand jury to investigate racketeering and vice in Mahoning County.

Two veterans of the Camp Fitch YMCA summer camp are among the directors for summer 1942. They are Ludwig Ohl, a 14-year veteran, and Karl Soller, a six-year veteran. Camp director is Jack McPhee.