YEARS AGO FOR MAY 22

Today is Monday, May 22, the 142nd day of 2017. There are 223 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1860: The United States and Japan exchange ratifications of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce during a ceremony in Washington.

1913: The American Cancer Society is founded in New York under its original name, the American Society for the Control of Cancer.

1939: The foreign ministers of Germany and Italy sign a “Pact of Steel” committing the two countries to a military alliance.

1967: A fire at the L’Innovation department store in Brussels kills 322 people.

1972: President Richard Nixon begins a visit to the Soviet Union, during which he and Kremlin leaders sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

1992: After a reign lasting nearly 30 years, Johnny Carson hosts NBC’s “Tonight Show” for the final time (Jay Leno would take over as host three days later).

2011: A tornado devastates Joplin, Mo., with winds up to 250 mph, claiming at least 159 lives and destroying about 8,000 homes and businesses.

2016: Madonna pays homage to Prince by wearing his signature color and bringing another icon – Stevie Wonder – onstage to sing the classic “Purple Rain” at the Billboard Music Awards.

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1992: Youngstown’s two top safety officers are split over 911 phone service, with Fire Chief Hector Colon saying the service will provide quicker emergency responses and Police Chief Randall Wellington claiming that it will tie up patrols with an increasing number of unnecessary calls.

The Ohio School Boards Association, which was hired to find the next superintendent of Youngstown City School District, says it has received only 14 applications.

A Cuyahoga County jury finds that the American Red Cross was not negligent and should not be held responsible for the death of Cora Imke, 71, of North Bloomfield, Trumbull County, who died of complications of AIDS in 1987 after receiving a blood transfusion in 1983 at a Geauga hospital.

1977: Dominic Butch of Youngstown, national commander of the Italian-American War Veterans, lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery after officers of the organization spent three days in Washington meeting with congressional leaders.

A Boardman homeowner finds the disfigured body of a dead baby in his backyard after a dog dragged the remains out of nearby Mill Creek Park.

Preliminary work begins on building a multimillion-dollar oxygen generating plant at U.S. Steel Corp.’s Ohio Works, brightening the long-term prospects for the plant and its 3,600 workers.

1967: An open house at the new J. Ford Crandall Rehabilitation Center for crippled children and adults is attended by 750 people.

A crash program to provide summer jobs for youths gets underway at the Ohio State Employment Service as a citizen’s group from all segments of the community meets to offer suggestions.

Three Youngstown-area students score the highest grades in the state in three subjects: Michael Puhala, Cardinal Mooney, chemistry; David Simpson, Howland, Spanish; and Clifford Newell, Columbiana, earth science.

1942: Marjorie Reese, South High senior, is asked to read her essay, “Why I Support the Community Chest,” at a report meeting of the Community Chest.

Youngstown may see a display of America’s military might under plans of the War Labor Committee of Mahoning County for a war rally at Idora Park on Flag Day, June 14.

Dr. George McKelvey posts an 84 to take low gross honors in the Shriners Day competition at Tippecanoe Country Club in Canfield. L.E. Nasman was second with an 86.