Saturday, May 27, 2017
Today is Saturday, May 27, the 147th day of 2017. There are 218 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1933: Walt Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated short “The Three Little Pigs” is first released.
1937: The newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., opens.
1942: Doris “Dorie” Miller, a cook aboard the USS West Virginia, becomes the first African American to receive the Navy Cross for displaying “extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety” during Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
1962: A dump fire in Centralia, Pa., ignites a blaze in underground coal deposits that continues to burn to this day.
1998: Michael Fortier, the government’s star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing case, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after apologizing for not warning anyone about the deadly plot. (Fortier was freed in 2006.)
2007: American forces free 42 kidnapped Iraqis in a raid on an al-Qaida hideout north of Baghdad.
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro joins about 20 northern Ohio mayors at a meeting in Cleveland where they endorse Bill Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary.
Jack Cessna, founder of organized road running in the Youngstown area, is removed as director of the U.S. International Peace Race by a 4-1 vote of the executive board.
A subsidiary of a biotechnical company controlled by Youngstown developer Edward J. DeBartolo Sr. and his son receives approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to manufacture and market a 10-minute screen test for a virus that causes AIDS.
1977: Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes says a planned coal gasification plant in Noble County offers outstanding long-range potential for use of the state’s coal resources.
Warren Atty. John L. Pogue is elected president of the Trumbull County YMCA Board of Trustees.
Sharon Sick, a junior at Canfield High School, earns first place in English in the Ohio Tests of Academic Achievement. She also won first in English as a sophomore, making her the only student to score first in consecutive years in the memory of area educators.
1967: Helen McKenzie of Oakley Avenue, Boardman, partially blinded in an egg-throwing incident involving five boys, files a civil suit seeking $75,000.
One youth is killed and three others injured when the Volkswagen they were riding in smashed into a tree after they left a private camp where 60 East Liverpool High School students were holding a party. Dead is Jerry Canne, 17.
Gayle Ann Lindsay of East Palestine wins the Town Hall Players Award as Kent State University’s graduating senior with highest grades in speech.
1942: Dr. B. Edwin Mossman is appointed district physician by Mayor William Spagnola to succeed Dr. Walter Tims, who is going to military service.
Former Congressman James T. Begg, an Ashtabula and Trumbull farmer running for the Republican nomination in the 19th congressional district, says “The New Deal wants to stick a thumb tack in the American citizen’s liberties.” He also claims that war-time gasoline rationing is unnecessary.
Warren will oppose the Old Furnace team in the opening match of the Penn-Ohio Polo League at Old Furnace field near Zelienople. Harvey Green, W. Strickland, D. Brown and W. Bates are on Warren’s new team.