YEARS AGO FOR MAY 2

Today is Thursday, May 2, the 122nd day of 2019. There are 243 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

2011: Osama bin Laden is killed by elite American forces at his Pakistan compound, then quickly buried at sea after a decade on the run.

1519: Artist Leonardo da Vinci dies at Cloux, France, at age 67.

1536: Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII, is arrested and charged with adultery; she would be beheaded 17 days later.

1863: During the Civil War, Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va.; he would die eight days later.

1941: General Mills begins shipping its new cereal, “Cheerioats,” to six test markets. (The cereal was later renamed “Cheerios.”)

1972: A fire at the Sunshine silver mine in Kellogg, Idaho, kills 91 workers.

1982: The Weather Channel debuts.

1994: Nelson Mandela wins South Africa’s first democratic elections.

2008: Tropical Cyclone Nargis strikes Myanmar, leading to an eventual official death toll of 84,537, with 53,836 listed as missing.

2018: Attorney Rudy Giuliani says President Donald Trump has reimbursed his personal lawyer for $130,000 in hush money paid to a porn actress days before the 2016 presidential election.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Bob Guccione, 63, publisher of Penthouse magazine, opens a retrospective exhibition of his paintings at the Butler Institute of American Art. He says he makes a living as a publisher, but painting is his true passion.

Austintown Township trustees say Woodside Lake is contributing to the township’s flooding problems, but lakeside residents say they will fight any attempt to drain the lake.

Mahoning County defense attorneys say too many cases are being sent to the grand jury by Youngstown Municipal Court. Atty. Timothy Franken cites a recent case in which a Youngstown man was bound over on a charge of sexual assault of a 4-year-old, but the grand jury returned a misdemeanor indictment for a brawl involving the child’s father.

1979: More than 500 union plumbers and pipefitters, members of Local 87, are on strike after rejecting an offer by the Builders Association of Northeastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania.

David Roderick, chairman of the U.S Steel Corp., says the company may not be able to afford the proposed huge mill at Conneaut on Lake Erie unless the company’s profitability improves.

The Liberty Board of Education rescinds its motion to cancel interscholastic sports with Girard after agreeing to new guidelines worked out by the high school principals.

1969: The men who run the district’s heavy construction equipment are being encouraged by their union representatives to unite behind the 12-mill Youngstown school levy. Major pro-levy campaigners are Calvin Malone, Charles Brice and John Schwellinger.

Roderic B. MacDonald, widely known in district music and drama circles, will replace Milton Cross as narrator for the Oratorio “King David” presented by the Youngstown Symphony Society at Stambaugh Auditorium.

Lake Newport and Lake Glacier in Mill Creek Park open for boating. Park-owned rowboats and motorboats are available for rental.

1944: Speaking at a testimonial for George A. Bowman, superintendent of Youngstown City Schools who is assuming the presidency of Kent State University, Congressman Walter H. Judd, R-Minn., predicts that the Japanese are willing to sacrifice 5 million men and believes the war will not end before 1947.

The 10-inch bar mill of the Youngstown plant of Republic Steel Corp. is shut down as a result of a dispute over scheduling of work between mechanical employees and the management.

Paul J. Fuzy Jr. is coming home from Harvard University where he is a medical student to spend a two-week leave with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Paul Fuzy on Fifth Avenue.