YEARS AGO FOR MAY 25

Today is Thursday, May 25, the 145th day of 2017. There are 220 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1916: The Chicago Tribune publishes an interview with Henry Ford in which the automobile industrialist is quoted as saying, “History is more or less bunk.”

1961: President John F. Kennedy tells Congress: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”

1977: The first “Star Wars” film (later renamed “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope”) is released by 20th Century Fox.

1979: Some 273 people die when an American Airlines DC-10 crashes just after takeoff from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.

1986: An estimated 7 million Americans participate in “Hands Across America” to raise money for the nation’s hungry and homeless.

1992: Jay Leno debuts as host of NBC’s “Tonight Show,” succeeding Johnny Carson.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Sam DeLisio, 83, of New Castle, Pa., a decorated veteran of World War II, hasn’t missed a Memorial Day service since returning from the war. He will deliver the Memorial Day address at the Mahoningtown Monument, which is inscribed with the names of 36 veterans who died in America’s wars.

Two lifeguards and a fisherman are credited with saving the life of Jamie Mongenel, 13, of Andover whose heart stopped after she was struck by lightning on the shore of Pymatuning Reservoir.

Dennis Kucinich, former mayor of Cleveland who is running for Congress in Ohio’s 19th District, spends a day doing chores at the Ashtabula County dairy farm of Valentine Krulic and pledges to work for the state’s endangered farmers.

1977: Barbara Bailey and Greg Donahue will return again to direct girls and boys activities at the Youngstown YMCA’s Camp Fitch.

For the past 20 years, 84-year-old Attilio DiLallo has been the self-appointed gardener and caretaker for the Smoky Hollow War Memorial.

Golden Hammer awards are presented to high- school students whose work was judged best in each of the Youngstown city school industrial arts classes. Stuart Williams won for a chair, Robert Blanco for a grandfather clock and Ken Wilson for a chest of drawers.

1967: A 19-year-old Youngstown University student, Thomas D. Mihalyi, is credited with disarming and helping to capture a 21-year-old robber who took $500 from the Temple Emanuel bingo game.

Farmers and animal lovers – mainly from Youngstown’s far East Side – criticize a new ordinance that prohibits keeping some animals, including horses, mules and cows, in the city.

The Youngstown Area Community Action Council requests a grant of $168,296 from the Office of Economic Opportunity to help provide 623 summer jobs for youth.

Rep. Walter Paulo, R-Canfield, a cigar-smoking lawmaker, introduces a bill in the Ohio House to raise the state’s 5-cent tax on a pack of cigarettes to 8 cents.

1942: Catherin Jaczko is crowned Youngstown College’s 15th May Queen by the 1941 queen, Peg Kirchner. Members of the queen’s court are Suzanne Edwards, Thelma Ashbaugh, Barbara Matulik and Marjorie Randall.

Five thousand delegates and visitors from 183 lodges are expected at the state convention of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in Youngstown.

Paul Stone Jr. of Youngstown is assigned to the naval officers training course at Notre Dame University.

Cab Calloway and his Jumpin’ Jive Jubilee are appearing at the Palace Theater in downtown Youngstown.