YEARS AGO FOR MAY 6

Today is Saturday, May 6, the 126th day of 2017. There are 239 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1889: The Paris Exposition formally opens, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.

1937: The hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg burns and crashes in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.

1941: Josef Stalin assumes the Soviet premiership.

1942: About 15,000 American and Filipino troops on Corregidor surrender to Japanese forces.

1987: Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart denies ever having an affair with Miami model Donna Rice, but declines to say whether he’d ever committed adultery.

2012: Vice President Joe Biden tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” he is “absolutely comfortable” with gay couples who marry getting the same civil rights and liberties as heterosexual couples.

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1992: The Concerned Citizens for a Safer Youngstown is asking 1,000 area businesses to commit to providing summer jobs of at least 10 hours a week for inner-city youths.

State Rep. Ronald Gerberry rejects a proposal by the League of Women Voters that a debate between him and state Rep. Joseph J. Vukovich III be televised.

Youngstown-based Phar-Mor Inc. launches a pilot project with Eye Care Associates of America, a San Antonio company, to market “Vision for Less” centers in Phar-Mor stores. The three pilot stores will be in the Youngstown area.

1977: Thirty-seven new citizens who were sworn in by Probate Judge Charles P. Henderson are honored during Law Day ceremonies at the Mahoning County Courthouse.

Officials of the Western Reserve Economic Development Agency are in Philadelphia courting Conrail’s participation in a proposed unit-train demonstration project for the local steel industry.

Eight New Castle area women are paid $155,853 in a sex discrimination case against the Johnson Bronze Co. dating to 1966. The company also agrees to pay $55,000 in legal fees.

1967: Eleven volunteer fire companies pour oceans of foam on two automobiles and a tanker truck that collided in Bristolville, averting a possibly catastrophic explosion.

Dr. Robert Conway, director of guidance and research for Youngstown schools, resigns to become a professor at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa.

A large detail of Youngstown police is sent downtown to the Town Burger restaurant on West Federal Street to break up a major disturbance involving 50 to 60 chanting and screaming youths.

Snow falls in the Youngstown area. A temperature of 34 degrees was a record low for the date, but snow is not an unheard-of occurrence in May.

1942:The campaign against vice and rackets in Youngstown takes a new turn when Dr. Robert G. Mossman, Youngstown health commissioner, warns physicians not to issue health certificates to prostitutes and declares that all known houses of prostitution must be closed.

Appearing in person at the Palace Theater in Youngstown: Chico Marx, his piano and orchestra. Meanwhile, on screen is “True to the Army,” of which Jules Schermer, former Youngstowner, is associate producer.

More than 10,000 students are expected to attend the annual High School Day when Youngstown’s Idora Park opens for its 47th season.