YEARS AGO FOR MAY 13

Today is Saturday, May 13, the 133rd day of 2017. There are 232 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1917: Three shepherd children, Lucia de Jesus dos Santos and two of her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, report seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary near Fatima, Portugal. It would be the first of six such apparitions that the children said they witnessed.

1940: In his first speech as British prime minister, Winston Churchill tells Parliament, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

1958: Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, are spat upon and their limousine battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.

1981: Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded in St. Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca.

2007: President George W. Bush makes a pilgrimage to the site of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia to mark the 400th anniversary of its founding.

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1992: Campaigning in the Mahoning Valley, former California Gov. Jerry Brown vows to stay in the Democratic race for president, accusing Democrats in Congress of turning their backs on cities.

RMI Titanium in Niles has entered into a joint venture with Precision Tube Technology Inc. of Houston to produce titanium-coiled tubing.

A $500-a-day consultant hired by Phil Chance, a candidate for Mahoning County sheriff, claims that the cost of the proposed county jail could be reduced if the exterior design were less elaborate.

1977: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. blows in a third blast furnace at its Campbell Works and will fire up a sixth open hearth at its Brier Hill Works, bringing the district to 78 or 79 percent of capacity.

Quick action by Trumbull County sheriff’s deputies foils an attempted escape by two inmates who were captured in the squad room, minutes after they broke though the ceiling of the prisoners visiting area.

Alan Scharsu, a 16-year-old junior at Austintown Fitch High, sets an all-time Ohio high- school record, running two miles in 8:45.8, during the NEO sectional track meet in Kent.

1967: The Struthers Board of Education hires Lee Ellsworth, of Waynesboro, Pa., as superintendent at a salary of $15,000 a year.

Two explosions, apparently caused by big firecrackers, blow out the windows in the Poland homes of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Norling and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edwards.

A second youth has been booked by Youngs-town police on charges of inciting a riot and resisting arrest at Idora Park on May 6, when nearly 500 youths milled about.

1942: A dough-boy minded House holds out the prospect of $50 a month minimum pay for soldiers and sailors, but military committee members predicted the pay-increase bill would emerge from Congress at only $42.

A group of 700 Youngstown merchants meet at the Hotel Pick-Ohio to discuss procedures for complying with Youngstown’s blackout ordinance.

Several companies have made offers to buy or lease Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s old Brier Hill plate mill for making ship plates. The huge mill would be dismantled and reassembled somewhere in the Southwest.

Only Rep. Michael Kirwan of Youngstown and Dow Harter of Akron, of all Ohio congressmen, voted in favor of all six measures presented by the national administration in 1941 before Pearl Harbor, as a means of combating the Axis powers.