Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Today is Tuesday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2017. There are 222 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1430: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians, who sell her to the English.
1533: The marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void by the archbishop of Canterbury.
1788: South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1915: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary during World War I.
1934: Bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker are shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, La.
1937: Industrialist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, founder of the Standard Oil Co., dies in Ormond Beach, Fla., at age 97.
1977: The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeals of former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman and former Attorney General John N. Mitchell in connection with their Watergate convictions.
2007: President George W. Bush, speaking at the U.S. Coast Guard commencement, portrays the Iraq war as a battle between the U.S. and al-Qaida and says Osama bin Laden is setting up a terrorist cell in Iraq to strike targets in America.
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1992: Two young eagles are taken from a nest at Mosquito Creek Wildlife Area, tested, banded and returned to the nest by state wildlife officials. The eaglets are two of 31 that have hatched successfully in Ohio in 1992.
A $5.27 million contract is awarded to Dunlop & Johnston Inc. of Cleveland for construction of a federal courthouse in downtown Youngstown at Market and Front streets.
Youngstown State University is moving toward offering a four-year degree in environmental science.
1977: Ohio Atty. Gen William J. Brown calls Youngstown one of the most progressive cities in the state in consumer protection and praises the work of Anthony Julian, director of the Consumer Protection Agency.
Neighbors find the bodies of a man and a woman in a small house near the center of Masury in Trumbull County about six hours after multiple gunshots were heard. Dead are James J. Meszaros, 29, of Sharpsville, Pa., and Susan Ann Fraley, 30, of Hermitage, Pa.
Honored at the 15th annual awards dinner sponsored by the Eastern Orthodox Society at St. Michael’s Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church Hall are Andrew Cvercko Sr., Olga Bilas, the Very Rev. Kiril Antonoff and state Sen. Harry Meshel.
1967: The Youngstown Board of Education reaffirms its retrenchment program in 13 areas of school services, but leaves the door open to the possibility of a self-supporting athletic program.
Classes return to normal at the Mahoning Valley Vocational School in Vienna, where students picketed to protest the dismissal of the school’s basic education supervisor.
Mary Nicholson, director of Children’s Theater in Spartansburg, S.C., is named director of the Youngstown Civic Children’s Theater.
1942: Congressman Michael J. Kirwan says pressing business in Washington has forced him to cancel a weekend trip home to Youngstown. Kirwan was to speak at a banquet at the Polish Hall on South Avenue honoring Youngstown’s first hero of the war, Anthony J. Pastula.
Thirty thousand pledge envelopes for the Community and War Chest campaign are being distributed so that every citizen can make a gift before the half-million-dollar campaign ends.
The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, directed by Carmine Ficocelli, entertains 4,600 city, county and parochial school students at Stambaugh Auditorium.
A navy battalion of about 100 men arrives in New Castle, Pa., for a five-week course in construction.