YEARS AGO FOR MAY 21
Today is Sunday, May 21, the 141st day of 2017. There are 224 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1542: Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto dies while searching for gold along the Mississippi River.
1881: Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross.
1892: The opera “Pagliacci,” by composer Ruggero Leoncavallo, premieres in Milan, Italy.
1917: The Great Atlanta Fire breaks out, burning 300 acres, destroying nearly 2,000 buildings and displacing some 10,000 residents.
Actor Raymond Burr (”Perry Mason”) is born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
1924: In a case that draws much notoriety, 14-year-old Bobby Franks is murdered in a “thrill killing” carried out by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb (Bobby’s cousin).
1927:Charles A. Lindbergh lands his Spirit of St. Louis monoplane near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 331/2 hours.
1932: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean as she lands in Northern Ireland, about 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland.
1941: A German U-boat sinks the American merchant steamship SS SFlbRobin Moor in the South Atlantic after the ship’s passengers and crew were allowed to board lifeboats.
1945: Actors Humphrey Bogart, 45, and Lauren Bacall, 20, are married at Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio (it was his fourth marriage, her first, and would last until Bogart’s death in 1957).
1955: Chuck Berry records his first single, “Maybellene,” for Chess Records in Chicago.
1972: Michelangelo’s Pieta, on display at the Vatican, is damaged by a hammer-wielding man who shouts he is Jesus Christ.
1982: During the Falklands War, British amphibious forces land on the beach at San Carlos Bay.
1991: Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated during national elections by a suicide bomber.
2007: The Supreme Court rules that parents don’t need to hire a lawyer in order to sue public school districts over their children’s special education needs.
The Food and Drug Administration issues a safety alert for the diabetes drug Avandia, marketed by GlaxoSmithKline, which disputed a report saying it was linked to a greater risk of heart attack.
2012: President Barack Obama and other world leaders meeting in Chicago lock in place an Afghanistan exit path that would keep their troops fighting there for two more years.
2016: President Barack Obama departs on a weeklong, 16,000-mile trip to Asia, part of his effort to pay more attention to the region and boost economic and security cooperation.
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: Struthers Mayor Daniel C. Mamula says he has contacted the FBI office in Youngstown to investigate what he believes are “irregularities” on several civil- service exams.
Former Gov. James A. Rhodes attends a ceremony marking the 16th anniversary of the Golden Buckeye Card, which provides discounts to senior citizens. Clark Oil Co. announces that it will give a 2 percent discount on gas purchases to card holders.
The Youngstown Pride logs its eighth consecutive victory with a win over the Jacksonville Stingrays, 125-108, setting a World Basketball League record.
1977: Charles Abernathy, manager of the General Motors Corp. plant at Lordstown, says two new cars will be added to the production line, the Buick Skyhawk and Oldsmobile Starfire, when the Chevrolet Vega and Pontiac Astre are discontinued. GM had already announced that Lordstown would build the Chevrolet Monza.
Mahoning County’s proposed half-percent piggyback sales tax will not go into effect June 1 because the Ohio attorney general has yet to rule on the legality of the referendum petitions that would put the issue on the November ballot.
The Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission votes to recognize Local 11 of the Ohio Public Employees Union as the bargaining agent for some park department workers.
1967: A new post office opens in Stoneboro, Pa. Another in Jamestown is nearing completion.
Robert Caldrone Jr. of Youngstown is granted an assistantship to Ohio State University for work toward his master’s degree in music.
Bob Burris grabs the lead on the 26th lap and goes on to win the 30-lap late-model main event before 3,191 fans at the Canfield Speedway.
Boardman Junior High School will be the site for Youngstown’s second Children’s International Summer Village in July.
1942: Constant rain forces the Youngstown’s clean-up collection trucks to stop after three hours, but 42 loads were hauled away.
The Hume Furniture Co., on West Federal Street since 1934, will open a branch at Market Street near Philadelphia, managed by Leonard Segall.
John K. Russ, track coach and assistant football coach at Rayen School, will resign coaching at the close of the season.