YEARS AGO FOR MAY 19

Today is Friday, May 19, the 139th day of 2017. There are 226 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1780: A mysterious darkness envelops much of New England and part of Canada in the early afternoon.

1927: The silent movie “Wings,” a World War I drama starring Clara Bow, Charles “Buddy” Rogers and Richard Arlen, has its world premiere in San Antonio, Texas, where it had been filmed. (“Wings” would go on to win the first Academy Award for best picture.)

1943: In his second wartime address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledges his country’s full support in the fight against Japan.

1962: Actress Marilyn Monroe sings “Happy Birthday to You” to President John F. Kennedy during a Democratic fundraiser at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

1967: The Soviet Union ratifies a treaty banning nuclear and other weapons from outer space as well as celestial bodies such as the moon.

1994: Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies in New York at age 64.

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1992: Dr. Leslie Cochran, who will become president of Youngstown State University in June, says nonacademic programs should be cut by 10 percent before cuts are made in the classrooms. The university is facing a $6.4 million reduction in state funding.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. is seeking help from Congress to resolve an $11.6 million dispute between a Saudi Arabian prince and Bucheit International, a Boardman construction company.

Boardman residents opposed to development of new baseball fields at Boardman Park tell park commissioners Thomas C. Masters, Janie Jenkins and George Economus that they will work to defeat future park levies.

1977: Valerie Edwards, 17, will donate a kidney during an operation at Cincinnati General Hospital to her brother, Charles, 18, who has fought kidney disease for 10 years.

Youngstown police find uncut sheets of counterfeit $20 bills with a face value of $2,300 in the refrigerator at 309 S. Jackson St., where George M. Paulin, 26, was found shot to death.

The Northeastern Ohio Manpower and Training Consortium has been notified by the Department of Labor that it will receive more than $25 million in funds under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 from President Jimmy Carter’s economic-stimulus program.

1967: A Tennessee mountain pastor, the Rev. Dr. Eugene Smathers, 59, takes over as chief presiding officer of the United Presbyterian Church, winning an upset election over the Rev. Dr. William H. Hudnut Jr. of New York, a former Youngstowner.

Three top winners in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s “Share in Freedom” poster contest for elementary school students are Dean Kissos, Richard Bostwick and Michael Francu.

Youngstown Education Association members will stay away from school if the board of education carries out its 13-point cutback program.

1942: Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., announces that the firm will give $66,000 to the Community and War Chest Campaign.

The Office of Defense Transportation will take control of the vast volume of coal rolling through Youngstown on railroads, revealing the urgent need for the Beaver-Mahoning canal as a war measure.

Jack Sawyer, 24-year-old former Niles grid star who was reported missing by the Navy, is being held a prisoner in Japan, an uncle of the sailor reports.