YEARS AGO FOR MAY 11

Today is Thursday, May 11, the 131st day of 2017. There are 234 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1647: Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.

1927: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

1937: “SPAM” is registered as a trademark by Hormel Foods, producer of the canned meat product.

1947: The B.F. Goodrich Co. of Akron announces the development of a tubeless tire.

1960: Israeli agents capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1981: Legendary reggae artist Bob Marley dies in a Miami hospital at age 36.

1997: IBM’s “Deep Blue” computer demolishes an overwhelmed Garry Kasparov, winning the six-game chess rematch between man and machine in New York.

2007: Speaking aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Persian Gulf, Vice President Dick Cheney warns Iran the U.S. and its allies would keep it from restricting sea traffic as well as from developing nuclear weapons.

2016: A white former South Carolina police officer already facing a state murder charge in the shooting death of unarmed black motorist Walter Scott is indicted on federal charges including depriving the victim of his civil rights.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Volunteers spend a week sorting garbage at Browning-Ferris Industries’ Carbon Limestone Landfill to determine what Mahoning County residents are throwing away. The information will be used to encourage recycling.

A report from the Ohio Board of Regents says Youngstown State University ranks 12th out of the 13 four-year state colleges in the amount of external money spent on research.

Warren Councilman Michael O’Brien, who is running for Trumbull County commissioner, says the $1.9 million Stone Building renovation project is an example of fiscal irresponsibility.

1977: Robert E. Cook, sales manager for General Motors’ Chevrolet Division, says the Lords- town Assembly plant will begin producing Chevrolet Monzas after the Chevrolet Vega and Pontiac Astre are discontinued. He predicts more workers will be needed.

Some Conneaut residents announce their opposition to construction of a $3.6 billion steel mill proposed by U.S. Steel Corp.

Two men are arrested on charges of disorderly conduct after police told them to return two cartons of apples they took from a load that was dumped on Interstate 680 from an overturned truck. Traffic was rerouted for several hours while the apples were cleared away.

1967: Sen. Hugh Scott, R-Pa., says that United States Steel Corp., the nation’s largest steel producer, and Consolidated Coal Co., the nation’s second-largest coal producer, would use a Lake Erie-Ohio River Canal to ship iron ore or coal.

The official plan for the second phase of urban renewal in the Youngstown University area is adopted by city council. The project calls for $2.3 million in development, including physical education and academic facilities.

1942: Almost 25 percent of the 1,425 bus and trolley stops in Youngstown will be eliminated if city council adopts a plan by William Muldoon, vice president and general manager of Youngstown Municipal Railway.

Donald Reagan, Youngstown pianist, Fordham University sophomore and former Vindicator copy boy, appears on Fred Allen’s “Star Theater,” where he played the piano and won $300.

Twenty members of Mill Creek Hiking Club visit the Alpine garden of A.E. Reinman near Lake Cohasset.