YEARS AGO FOR MAY 10

Today is Wednesday, May 10, the 130th day of 2017. There are 235 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1774: Louis XVI accedes to the throne of France.

1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union forces in Irwinville, Ga.

1869: A golden spike is driven in Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.

1933: The Nazis stage massive public book burnings in Germany.

1977: Academy Award-winning actress Joan Crawford dies in New York.

1994: Nelson Mandela takes the oath of office in Pretoria to become South Africa’s first black president.

2016: With his White House dreams fading, Bernie Sanders adds another state to his tally against Hillary Clinton with a win in West Virginia; Republican Donald Trump also wins there and in Nebraska.

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1992: Liberty Township is paying more than $800 a year for cell phones for trustees Carol DeFrank and Daniel Novello, who say they need the phones to stay abreast of township business. Cellular One bills the phones at the government rate of 25 cents a minute, as much as 35 cents a minute less than the personal rate.

The hazardous waste incinerator being built in East Liverpool is big, but not the biggest, says the Environmental Protection Agency. The biggest in terms of maximum heat and disposal capabilities is in Deer Park, Texas.

Charles A. Montgomery Jr., a 1990 Campbell High School graduate, wins the National Conference of Black Engineering Students oratorical contest called in New York.

1977: A two-alarm fire of suspicious origin erupts in the News Center at 1317 Market St. and spreads to the M&D Tavern and upstairs apartments. Damage is estimated at $30,000.

Ohio Bell Telephone Co. plans to spend $17 million in the Youngstown area to improve and maintain phone service, says Doug Shasby, Youngstown district manager.

The Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine board of trustees approves an operating budget of $3.5 million for 1977-78.

1967: Rep. Michael Kirwan, Youngstown, honored at the annual Democratic Congressional Dinner with a bronze plaque honoring his 20 years of service as chairman of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Philippa Schuyler, 34, American black concert pianist who played in Youngstown in 1960, dies in the crash of a U.S. helicopter that was evacuating Vietnamese children from Da Nang.

Youngstown Board of Health requests the city investigate the pollution of Mill Creek Park waters by overflowing or ruptured sewer lines in the city.

A large delegation of waterway boosters urge the Senate to support a $2 million item for carrying on planning and engineering of the Lake Erie-Ohio River Waterway.

1942: A Vindicator reporter infiltrates the Jungle Inn on Applegate Road and sees roughly 1,000 people, between their teens and seventies, playing bingo, chuck-a-luck, craps, five-card stud poker and slot machines.

Atty. Simon Leis of Cincinnati may conduct the special grand-jury investigation of vice in Youngstown that is ordered by Gov. John Bricker.

Youngstown district high school journalism students win three firsts, a second and two third places at fifth annual Northeastern Ohio High School Journalism Clinic at Kent State. They are Jackie Shackleford, Margaret Icewaner, Nada Ledinko, John Barich, Ralph Bowen and George Miller.