YEARS AGO FOR MAY 29

Today is Monday, May 29, the 149th day of 2017. There are 216 days left in the year. This is the Memorial Day observance.

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On this date in:

1453: Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire.

1660: Britain’s King Charles II is restored to the throne on his 30th birthday after nine years in exile.

1765: Patrick Henry denounces the Stamp Act before Virginia’s House of Burgesses.

1790: Rhode Island becomes the 13th original colony to ratify the United States Constitution.

1917: The 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, is born in Brookline, Mass.

1932: World War I veterans begin arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren’t scheduled to receive until 1945.

1953: Mount Everest is conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay of Nepal become the first climbers to reach the summit.

1961: A couple in Paynesville, W. Va., become the first recipients of food stamps under a pilot program created by President John F. Kennedy.

1977: Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to race in the Indianapolis 500, finishing in 29th place (the winner was A.J. Foyt).

2012:Mitt Romney clinches the Republican presidential nomination with a win in the Texas primary.

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1992: Peter J. Schmitt Co. abruptly closes its doors at its North Jackson and Austintown food distribution centers, costing 540 hourly and salaried workers their jobs. The warehouses had been the primary providers for area Sparkle, Apples and Golden Dawn supermarkets.

Three men are arrested for dumping more than 80 drums of waste, some of it hazardous, at the Hillsville Quarry, a popular swimming hole in Lawrence County. State officials opened an investigation after Mahoning Township Police Chief David Mitchell stopped a pickup truck near the quarry and found abandoned barrels near by.

Copperweld Steel Co. in Warren receives an award from Honda of America Manufacturing Inc. for Copperweld’s development of a steel bar used in the manufacture of crankshafts at Honda’s Marysville plant.

1977: Mercer County officials say they intend to collect more than $25,000 in back taxes owed to various subdivisions by the bankrupt Penn Central Railroad.

Nearly 100 units, including five high school bands, drum and bugle corps and units from government, civic and veterans groups, will march in the downtown Youngstown Memorial Day Parade sponsored by the United Veterans Council.

Stanley Engle, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Youngstown, will receive the Guardian of the Menorah humanitarian award at Squaw Creek Country Club.

1967: Emergency steps are proposed to lessen the outbreak of strife in Youngstown this summer, including creation of jobs for youths, a “lighted schools” program and a junior auxiliary police force.

Fire caused by a faulty air conditioner causes $15,000 damage to the North Side home of David Schwebel, vice president of Schwebel Baking Co.

A two-alarm fire breaks out in the paint booths at the Tee-Nee Boat Trailer Co. on East Indianola Ave. in Youngstown, causing about $10,000 in damage.

1942: All residential rents in Mahoning and Trumbull counties are frozen as of April 1, 1941.

Some 450 last-minute guests for the Military Ball at the Hotel Ohio keep the hostess committee working at top speed. The Army men are from the tank unit expected in Youngstown’s Memorial Day parade.

Lachlan Macleay, president of the Mississippi Valley Association, tells the National Rivers and Harbors Congress meeting in Chicago that a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal should be built immediately to relieve shortages of oil, coal and sulphur by providing an all-water route.