YEARS AGO FOR MAY 12

Today is Friday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2017. There are 233 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1932: The body of Charles Lindbergh Jr., the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, is found in a wooded area near Hopewell, N.J.

1963: Betty Miller becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean as she lands her Piper Apache in Brisbane, Australia, having left Oakland, Calif., on April 30, making three stopovers along the way.

1967: “Are You Experienced?” the groundbreaking debut album of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, is released in Britain by Track Records.

1975: The White House announces the new Cambodian government has seized an American merchant ship, the Mayaguez, in international waters. (U.S. Marines gained control of the ship three days after its seizure, not knowing the 39 civilian members of the crew had already been released by Cambodia.)

1992: Actor Robert Reed of TV’s “The Brady Bunch” dies in Pasadena, Calif., at age 59.

2002: Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba, becoming the first U.S. president in or out of office to visit since the 1959 revolution that put Fidel Castro in power.

2007: Miami’s LeBron James became the eighth player in NBA history to receive the MVP award three times.

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1992: Don L. Hanni Jr., Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman, says that if presidential candidate Bill Clinton can’t find time to come to the Mahoning Valley, he’ll invite third-party candidate Ross Perot.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. is seeking support for a five-county water district around the Meander Creek Reservoir. ,

Twenty-six former students of the defunct Harding Business College are seeking $1.3 million in a lawsuit that claims the college breached a contract and caused them to lose money.

1977: Former Trumbull County Sheriff Robert W. Barnett pleads guilty to two misdemeanor counts of dereliction of duty in connection with food-service contracts at the County Jail and agrees to make restitution, which could total $80,000.

Irvin Gandee, 54, and his son, Fred,14, of 7759 Pricetown Road, Berlin Center, drown after Fred suffers a cramp while trying retrieve a runaway goose from a neighbor’s farm pond.

The Rev. Thomas E. Rehl, former pastor, will be the guest speaker at the 75th anniversary celebration at Zion Lutheran Church in New Waterford.

1967: A merger of Valley Mould and Iron Corp., Hubbard, and the Republic Industrial Corp. of New York City is being negotiated.

Youngstown’s traffic death toll, although up only slightly from 1966, puts it in third place among cities in the 100,000 to 300,000 population class according to the National Safety Council.

Hillside Hospital in Warren, a rehabilitation hospital operated by Trumbull County, is one of 113 hospitals nationwide honored for completing 1966 without a patient accident.

1942: First Ward Councilman Benjamin Roth asks city council to consider paying for the damage done to Police Sgt. William Davis’ home, which was bombed April 20, as a moral obligation of the city.

Mayor William Spagnola, one of nine Ohio mayors on Gov. John Bricker’s evacuation committee, goes to Columbus for a committee meeting. The men are mayors of cities most likely to be “target” cities of bombings.

Youngstown will be divided into four sections for the annual cleanup collections, with each section assigned a day for pick-up.