Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Today is Tuesday, May 16, the 136th day of 2017. There are 229 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1770: Marie Antoinette, age 14, marries the future King Louis XVI of France, who is 15.
1866: Congress authorizes minting of the first five-cent piece, also known as the “Shield nickel.”
1868: The U.S. Senate fails by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it takes its first ballot on the 11 articles of impeachment against him.
1939: The federal government begins its first food-stamp program in Rochester, N.Y.
1966: China launches the Cultural Revolution, a radical as well as deadly reform movement aimed at purging the country of “counter-revolutionaries.”
1988: Surgeon General C. Everett Koop releases a report declaring nicotine is addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine.
1992: The space shuttle Endeavour completes its maiden voyage with a safe landing in the California desert.
2007: Anti-war Democrats in the Senate fail in an attempt to cut off funds for the Iraq war.
2016: Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital say a cancer patient is recovering well after the nation’s first penis transplant, a groundbreaking operation that could give new hope to accident victims and wounded veterans.
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: About 100 people pay $5 each to eat at Sts. Cyril & Methodius School in Warren for a “Poor People Luncheon” that features fried bologna, cornbread, wieners and beans.
General Motors Corp. Chairman Robert Semple tells security analyts that the automaker will cut to seven from 20 the number of basic frames it uses to build cars and trucks.
Nearly 60 percent of Americans support a national health insurance system, a new national poll shows, and nearly as many people are wiling to pay $600 a year to finance it.
1977: The Rev. Charles E. Ferrell, pastor of First United Methodist Church of Willard, is chosen to be the fifth pastor in the 60-year history of Trinity United Methodist Church in Youngstown.
More than 4,500 youths walk in the seventh annual March of Dimes-WHOT 20-mile walk. Margaret Verner, march co-chairwoman, says 95 percent completed the entire 20-mile route that started and ended at Idora Park.
A bill that would provide $5 million to set up experimental youth job camps is signed by Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes.
1967: The Brookfield Federation of Teachers will be the bargaining agent for township schoolteachers after defeating the older Brookfield Teachers Association in an election.
The Youngstown Board of Education is standing firm on its 13 major cutbacks in school costs promised before the defeat of the 7.5-mill operating levy two weeks ago.
A state-sponsored course for 39 women as school-bus drivers, the first such program in Ohio, will begin June 12 at the Columbiana County Fairgrounds.
1942: Police Chief John Turnbull predicts that all disorderly places will be empty within 30 days, as property owners would rather evict undesirable tenants than have their buildings padlocked for a year.
Republic Steel Corp. contends that a closed union shop would hinder the company’s efforts to achieve maximum production for the war effort.
Dr. F.B. McAllister of the Baptist Temple receives a call from the Ninth Street Church in Cincinnati.
Youngstown parks and recreation commission appoints two caretakers, Oliver Lundee and Edward Davis, and a park patrolman, Paul Lissman.