YEARS AGO FOR MAY 14

Today is Sunday, May 14, the 134th day of 2017. There are 231 days left in the year. This is Mother’s Day.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1607: King Henry IV of France is assassinated, bringing Louis XIII to the throne at age 9.

1643: Louis XIV becomes king of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.

1796: English physician Edward Jenner inoculates 8-year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter.

1804: The Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest leaves camp near present-day Hartford, Ill.

1900: The Olympic games open in Paris as part of the 1900 World’s Fair.

1925: The Virginia Woolf novel “Mrs Dalloway” is first published in England and the United States.

1955: Representatives from eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign the Warsaw Pact in Poland. (The pact was dissolved in 1991.)

1961: Freedom Riders are attacked by violent mobs in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala.

1973: The United States launches Skylab 1, its first manned space station. (Skylab 1 remained in orbit for six years before burning up during re- entry in 1979.)

1998: Singer-actor Frank Sinatra dies at a Los Angeles hospital at age 82.

The hit sitcom “Seinfeld” airs its final episode after nine years on NBC.

2016: A charter bus headed to a casino in rainy conditions crashes north of Laredo, Texas, killing eight people.

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1992: Mahoning County Commissioner Thomas J. Carney calls on Youngstown officials to show more support for 911 emergency telephone service, but Youngstown Police Chief Randall Wellington doesn’t like the plan.

The Youngstown Pride plays its 200th game in the World Basketball League before 3,518 fans at Beeghly Center, defeating the Florida Jades, 127-113.

Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Mitchell F. Shaker rules that a Johnston Township couple who complained about being suspended from involvement in the Maplewood Hot Stove League have no legal right to belong and must obey a league rule that they stay 200 feet from the dugout.

1977: A bank robber being pursued by police takes refuge in a Lincoln Square apartment and takes hostage Mrs. Carla Blair, 22, and her children, Danielle, 13 months, and Isaac, 4, and a neighbor boy, Emmett Moore, 4.

Nine former deputies who were dismissed by Trumbull County Sheriff Richard Jakmas when he succeeded Robert W. Barnett take their fight for reinstatement to the Ohio Personnel board of Review in Columbus.

Pennsylvania state police arrest a Florida couple and plan to issue citations to a number of Union Township firefighters after a gambling raid at a carnival at Westgate Plaza.

1967: Youngstown Fire Capt. Dan Eberhart says the Youngstown Safety Forces Wage & Welfare Committee has made “little progress” in negotiating with the city administration for improved fringe benefits for the city’s 556 patrolmen and firemen.

Jerome Kriss, Ravenwood Avenue, Youngstown, arrives in Gabon, West Africa, to begin serving two years as a Peace Corps volunteer. He will direct construction of primary schools and other housing.

Frederick B. Newel, resident bishop of the Pittsburgh area, will preach the dedication sermon at the consecration of the new First Methodist Church off Plank Road in New Castle.

1942: Edgar Stephenson, former Youngstown resident, gets much of the credit for the discovery of deposits of two sorely needed minerals: cinnabar, for making mercury; and chromite.

The champion first-aid team of the State Highway Patrol will demonstrate its skills at the Rayen School Auditorium in Youngstown.

Starring in “Spring Fever” at Fitch High School are Robert Athey and Mathilda Papp. Others in the cast are Betty Beck, Alberta Bergman, Lucille Seaborn, Leonard Puhalla, Edward Kulisek, Charles Dravis, Melva Schisler and Eileen Wilhelm.