YEARS AGO FOR MAY 24

Today is Wednesday, May 24, the 144th day of 2017. There are 221 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1844: Samuel F.B. Morse transmits the message “What hath God wrought” from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opens America’s first telegraph line.

1935: The first Major League Baseball game to be played at night takes place at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1.

1941: The German battleship Bismarck sinks the British battle cruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three of the 1,418 on board.

1976: Britain and France open trans-Atlantic Concorde supersonic transport service to Washington.

1994: Four Islamic fundamentalists convicted of bombing New York’s World Trade Center in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.

2016: Protests outside a Donald Trump rally in Albuquerque, N.M., turn violent as demonstrators throw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at police officers, overturn trash cans and knock down barricades.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Celeste Witt, an eighth-grader at Mineral Ridge Middle School, heads to Washington, D.C., where the winner of The Vindicator spelling bee will compete in the 65th annul Scripps Howard bee.

The Vindicator’s Athletes of the Year award winners at Youngstown State University are Ron Strollo, a tight end on the Penguins’ national championship football team and Sandy Steiber, an outside hitter on the women’s volleyball team.

The Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine holds its commencement at Stambaugh Auditorium in Youngstown, awarding BS/MD degrees to new doctors, including 21 who went through the six-year program as YSU students.

1977: David Houck of Boardman buys a 40-year-old railroad caboose to mark his wife Linda’s 40th birthday. The Youngstown and Northern Railroad caboose will be used as an addition to the couple’s cabin on the Clarion River in Pennsylvania.

James Culver, a member of the Warren Board of Education, proposes that a commission of city residents be created to develop a long-range desegregation plan for the school district.

John Sutton, 69, of Superior Street, Youngstown, is killed by lightning while fishing at Lake Newport in Mill Creek Park. He was sitting in an aluminum chair when a bolt of lightning struck a nearby tree.

1967: Twenty-seven city employees, including policemen, strike at Newton Falls after city council cancels a meeting at which legislation for fringe benefits was to be passed.

Municipal Court Judge Martin P. Joyce sentences an 18-year-old Youngstown youth to 13 months in jail on charges of inciting a riot at Idora Park, telling him, “When a policeman tells you to do something, do it.”

Four Kent State University students from Trumbull County are recognized on Honors Day: Lora Lita Thomas, Valerie Marilla, Edward Drummond and Matthew Bufwack.

1942: The U.S. Navy Department is graduating its first class of nearly 100 men from its radio training school at Grove City College.

Dr. O.J. Marcus, doctor of surgical chiropody at the Youngstown Foot Clinic, will treat sore feet for 50 cents a foot, including a free vibrator massage.

The spring and summer golf season opens at Squaw Creek Country Club when the Women’s Golf Association stages a breakfast and tournament for members. Mrs. Milton Klivans is chairwoman.