Today is Wednesday, May 17, the 137th day of 2017. There are 228 days left in the year.

Today is Wednesday, May 17, the 137th day of 2017. There are 228 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1875: The first Kentucky Derby is run. The winner is Aristides, ridden by Oliver Lewis.

1940: The Nazis occupy Brussels, Belgium, during World War II.

1954: A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court hands down its Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, which holds that racially segregated public schools are inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional.

1973: A special committee convened by the U.S. Senate begins its televised hearings into the Watergate scandal.

1977: The Chuck E. Cheese’s fast-food and family entertainment chain has its start as the first Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre opens in San Jose, Calif.

1980: Rioting that would claim 18 lives erupts in Miami’s Liberty City after an all-white jury in Tampa acquits four former Miami police officers of fatally beating black insurance executive Arthur McDuffie.

1992: Orchestra leader Lawrence Welk dies in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 89.

2004: Massachusetts becomes the first state to allow legal same-sex marriages.

2012: Donna Summer, 63, the “Queen of Disco,” dies in Naples, Fla.

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1992: Howland Police Chief Thomas Altiere says Sheriff Richard Jakmas, whom Altiere is challenging in the June Democratic primary, spends too much time grousing.

Five candidates are vying for the Democratic nomination to succeed Judge Joseph Donofrio on the 7th District Court of Appeals: Peter J. Economus, Coleen Hall Dailey, Gene Donofrio, Timothy P. Maloney and John C. Thorne Jr.

Volunteers are being recruited to refurbish Church Hill Park on Belmont Avenue.

1977: Thomas Simione, 34, a steward at a South Avenue club, is found dying from a gunshot wound in front of his van at South and Boston avenues.

Trumbull County Probate Judge Reed S. Battin is honored for the third year in a row by the Ohio Supreme Court for superior judicial service.

Niles receives a letter from Mary T. Waddell announcing the donation of 97 acres of land on the city’s South Side known as the Clingan Estate for development of a park.

1967: From 1,000 to 2,000 teenagers will march into Youngstown’s Central Square in a public demonstration of their desire to get summer jobs.

The Liberty Board of Education asks Hubbard schools to reimburse it $297 for a Hubbard student who hitched a ride through the school year on a Liberty school bus from Logan Road to a parochial school in Youngstown.

A bill accepting Youngstown University as a state-supported university is signed by Gov. James Rhodes. With this status, the university will be supported by and responsible to the state for its operation.

1942: The eastern seaboard of the U.S. inaugurated its first “stay-at-home” weekend. Due to stringent gasoline rationing, travel dwindles to a trickle while former motorists discover new ways to entertain themselves at home.

An emergency appeal on behalf of the Community and War Chest campaign is made over WFMJ by William F. Maag Jr., chairman of the drive.

Price ceilings go into effect for the duration of the war at 5,000 Youngstown-area retail stores.