YEARS AGO FOR MAY 1

Today is Wednesday, May 1, the 121st day of 2019. There are 244 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1707: The Kingdom of Great Britain is created as a treaty merging England and Scotland takes effect.

1931: New York’s 102-story Empire State Building is dedicated.

1941: The Orson Welles motion picture “Citizen Kane” premieres in New York.

1960: The Soviet Union shoots down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Sverdlovsk and captures its pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

1967: Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas.

1971: The intercity passenger rail service Amtrak goes into operation.

1975: Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Brewers breaks baseball’s all-time RBI record previously held by Babe Ruth.

2011: President Barack Obama announces the death of Osama bin Laden during a U.S. commando operation.

2018: Entering the State Department headquarters for the first time as America’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vows to reinvigorate American diplomacy and help the United States get “back our swagger.”

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Six Mahoning Valley college-educated adults take a 33-question practice version of the Ohio Ninth Grade Proficiency Test at the invitation of The Vindicator. Their scores range from 76 percent to the 100 percent score of Mary Alice Grace, a supervisor at the Trumbull County Board of Education.

A General Motors Corp. internal memo projects some 2,900 fewer workers will be needed at the Lordstown plant to make the new Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac Sunbird models for 1995. The plant employs about 11,000 workers today.

A Vindicator poll of 300 Democratic voters in Mahoning County shows 52 percent support Michael Morley for party chairman, 17 percent support incumbent Don Hanni Jr. and 31 percent prefer another candidate.

1979: Theresa Petiya, McCollum Road, files a $500,000 civil suit against the federal government claiming negligence in administering the nationwide swine-flu inoculation program that resulted in the death of her husband, Andrew, of Guillian Barre Syndrome, a side effect of the inoculation he received.

The budget passed by the Ohio House bars state-supported colleges and universities from increasing tuition for the next two years.

Ron Calcagni, a Chaney High graduate and quarterback at the University of Arkansas where he was the third-highest yardage-gainer in the university’s history, signs a three-year contract with the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League.

1969: James McLeron, manufacturing manager for the Chevrolet Motor Division, says the new truck assembly plant under construction at Lordstown is vital to Chevrolet meeting future market demands.

Youngstown voters must pass the 12-mill operating levy or public school will be closed in September, says Dr. Styner Brighton, Ohio education leader, speaking to 180 guests at the 14th annual dinner of the Ohio Education Association at Hotel Ohio.

A flimflam team fleeces Alexander Williams, treasurer of Gospel Baptist Temple in Campbell, of $5,000. Another pair cheated Mrs. Lillian Humphrey of Bennington Street of $80.

1944: The Federal Works Agency at Washington approves a $169,648 grant to St. Elizabeth Hospital for construction of a nurses dormitory on the grounds of the former Henry Stambaugh estate.

Sgt. Karl Schonhut received the Purple Heart medal, which he sent home from Bougainville with a note to his parents telling them not to worry as it was a minor wound.

Worth Martin Jr., 4, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital, the third child to die as a result of a fire in the Martin home in Campbell April 18. Two sisters died in the fire.