Saturday, May 20, 2017
Today is Saturday, May 20, the 140th day of 2017. There are 225 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1506: Explorer Christopher Columbus dies in Spain.
1927: Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France.
1932: Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
1956: The United States explodes the first airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1961: A white mob attacks a busload of Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Ala., prompting the federal government to send in U.S. marshals to restore order.
1989:Actress-comedian Gilda Radner dies in Los Angeles at age 42.
1996: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Romer v. Evans, strikes down, 6-3, a Colorado measure banning laws that protect homosexuals from discrimination.
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1992: The Ohio Pharmacists Association passes a resolution urging all pharmacies in the state to ban smoking in their stores and to stop selling tobacco products.
Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro urges the Ohio Historical Society to ease its guidelines on demolition so that Youngstown and other cities can raze vacant houses that have become targets of drug dealers and arsonists.
Hubbard Mayor Albert Sauline and Hubbard Township trustees meet to discuss the possible benefits of a merger.
1977: Johnson Bronze Co. officials are in Mississippi looking at sites to relocate 40 percent of its New Castle, Pa., production facilities.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Midwest office in Chicago orders Ohio Edison Co. to severely curtail pollution at 10 of its Ohio plants, including those in Niles, Youngstown and East Palestine.
Atty. John Schultz, representing a white applicant for a job on the Youngstown Police Department, says the hiring of two black patrolmen in accordance with an order by U.S. District Judge Thomas Lambros constitutes reverse discrimination.
1967: Lt. Gov. John Brown tells a Republican rally at the Market Street School in Boardman that Gov. James Rhodes is preparing a balanced budget of $2 billion for the next two years, with about half the expenditures going for education.
George E. Halle of Seventh Street, Niles, will enter the U.S. Military Academy under appointment by U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan.
Staff Sgt. Samuel R. Allen, 33, formerly of Bernard Street, Youngstown, is killed in Pleiku, Vietnam, while on his second tour of duty there.
Richard W. McVey of Boardman is named president of VSE Fabrication Co. of Niles. He had been a vice president of Valley Steel Erectors Inc.
1942: William Bower of Ravenna is one of three Army Air Corps lieutenants from Ohio among the 80 men on Brig. Gen. James Doolittle’s bombing of Tokyo.
Twenty-five city trucks are scouting the area south of the Mahoning River and west of Market Street looking for junk and refuse and hoping to collect more war-usable articles that the city’s earlier aluminum and scrap iron campaigns did.
The home of Mrs. L.A. Beeghly on Boardman Road provides a lovely setting for a tea of the Mount Union Women’s Club.