Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Today is Tuesday, May 30, the 150th day of 2017. There are 215 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1431: Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, is burned at the stake in Rouen, France.
1536: England’s King Henry VIII marries his third wife, Jane Seymour, 11 days after the king’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, was beheaded for treason and adultery.
1911: The first Indy 500 takes place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
1922: The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., is dedicated in a ceremony attended by President Warren G. Harding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln.
1937: Ten people are killed when police fire on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago.
1958: Unidentified American service members killed in World War II and the Korean War are interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.
1997: Jesse K. Timmendequas is convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka, whose 1994 murder inspired “Megan’s Law,” requiring that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
2002: A solemn, wordless ceremony marks the end of the cleanup at ground zero in New York, 81/2 months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: The Ohio Department of Development says the state will not lose the $4 million in taxpayer money it lent to Peter J. Schmitt Co. to build a warehouse that the company has abruptly closed. The state says it has a letter of credit from a Michigan bank backing the loan and will be able to collect even though Schmitt filed for bankruptcy.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency gives a solid-waste permit allowing Browning-Ferris Industries to continue operations at its Carbon Limestone Landfill for the next 30 years.
W.D. Werner Co. Inc. breaks ground for an 80,000-square-foot addition to its manufacturing plant in Greenville, Pa., which the company says will be used to build new fiberglass ladders.
1977: Reflecting a somewhat improved outlook, GF Business Equipment Inc. announces that it has boosted employment at its Youngstown plant by 150 workers.
The Captain & Tennille will headline the attractions at the seven-day Trumbull County Fair over the July Fourth weekend.
The grave of pioneers Isaac Powers and his wife, Leah, is rededicated in a historic cemetery in Brownlee Woods. Isaac and his father, Abraham, arrived in the area in 1796 and discovered what would become known as Lanterman Falls in Mill Creek Park.
1967: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to enforce price discrimination against a New Castle, Pa., plumbing-fixtures company, Universal Rundle Corp.
Winners of the Girard Knights of Columbus essay contest, “Is Patriotism Dying in These United States?,” are Carol Fennell and Martha Godward.
State Chevrolet submits the low bid of $29,402 for three sanitation-collection units. The city engineer is evaluating the five bids received.
John Wilkie of Boardman receives the Eagle Scout Award at Boardman Methodist Church.
1942:Youngstown Mayor William Spagnola orders police to seize all pinball machines in the city except those owned by nine plaintiffs who have filed suit challenging the city’s ordinance on gambling devices.
Through U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, the War Department has authorized an anti-tank unit of 450 men from Fort Custer, Mich., to march in Youngstown’s Memorial Day parade.
More than $21,000 is raised for all purposes at Indianola Methodist Church during 1941, and the mortgage was reduced by $11,000, reports at the fourth annual conference show.