YEARS AGO FOR MAY 28

Today is Sunday, May 28, the 148th day of 2017. There are 217 days left in the year.

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1533: Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.

1892: Sierra Club is organized in San Francisco.

1912: The Senate Commerce Committee issues its report on the Titanic disaster that cites a “state of absolute unpreparedness,” improperly tested safety equipment and an “indifference to danger” as some of the causes of an “unnecessary tragedy.”

1929: The first all-color talking picture, “On with the Show!” produced by Warner Bros., opens in New York.

1934: The Dionne quintuplets – Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne – are born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada.

1940: During World War II, the Belgian army surrenders to invading German forces.

1945: The novel “Brideshead Revisited” by Evelyn Waugh is published in London by Chapman & Hall.

1957: National League owners give permission for the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to move to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

1961: Amnesty International has its beginnings with the publication of an article in the British newspaper The Observer, “The Forgotten Prisoners.”

1977: One hundred sixty- five people are killed when fire races through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky. (Investigators cited faulty electrical wiring, fire safety code violations and overcrowding as reasons for the disaster.)

1987: To the embarrassment of Soviet officials, Mathias Rust, a young West German pilot, lands a private plane in Moscow’s Red Square without authorization. (Rust was freed by the Soviets the following year.)

1998: Comic actor Phil Hartman of “Saturday Night Live” and “News Radio” fame is shot to death at his home in Encino, Calif., by his wife, Brynn, who then kills herself.

2007: The United States and Iran break a 27-year diplomatic freeze with a four-hour meeting in Baghdad about Iraqi security.

2012: President Barack Obama pays tribute on Memorial Day to the men and women who died defending America; speaking at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, Obama pointed to Vietnam veterans as an underappreciated and sometimes maligned group of war heroes.

2016: A 3-year-old boy falls into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo; he is rescued by a team that shot to death a 400-pound gorilla named Harambe after the rescuers concluded that the boy’s life was at stake, a decision which led to mourning and criticism around the globe.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: A Crime Stoppers tip leads police to two trailers containing more than 1,200 marijuana plants on Meridian Road in Youngstown. Federal charges will be sought against a Trumbull County man.

Franklin County Judge Guy L. Reece Jr. rules that a new Ohio law is unconstitutional in requiring a woman to wait 24 hours before having an abortion and to receive information from the state about fetal development and alternatives to abortion.

WCI Steel Inc. says that its twin-strand continuous slab caster is operating at 100 percent of the steelmaker’s flat-rolled product line.

1977: Farrell Mayor Francis Petrillo is convicted in federal court in Pittsburgh on three of five charges involving extortion from contractors.

The John F. Kennedy Federated Democratic Women’s Club of Mahoning County kicks off a campaign to have the former president’s birthday declared a national holiday.

Former Major Leaguer John Kucab, who pitched for the Philadelphia A’s between 1950 and 1953, dies of a heart attack at 57. Kucab settled in Campbell with his wife, who he met on a baseball trip here He and a teammate, Bobby Gardner, married sisters Mary and Eleanor Hovanec, television and recording artists.

1967: Pfc. Joseph A. Siciliano Jr., 20, of Girard is reported killed in action near Quang Tri, Vietnam, with the Third Marine Division.

An appeal is expected in the record-breaking $750,000 verdict returned by a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court jury in a wrongful traffic death lawsuit. The award was to Muriel Diener of New York for her husband, Bert, killed in a sports car-truck collision near Salem.

James Bradley of Vienna, a student at Youngstown University, receives a scholarship toward a year’s study at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

1942: Walter Schaff, well-known auto dealer, is appointed the district manager of the office of Price Administration in Youngstown.

Municipal Court Judge Robert B. Nevin warns five downtown bookies that they should get out of the gambling trade, because if he sees them again they’ll face fines of $500.

Thousands of dollars worth of fire fighting, civilian defense and first aid equipment will be sent to Youngstown by the federal government to prepare the area for possible air raids.

Surveys by Army Engineers of large areas of land near New Wilmington and Edinburg, Pa., as possible locations for a U.S. Army storage depot have been abandoned.