YEARS AGO FOR MAY 5

Today is Sunday, May 5, the 125th day of 2019. There are 240 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1494: During his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica.

1818: Political philosopher Karl Marx, co- author of “The Communist Manifesto” and author of “Das Kapital,” is born in Prussia.

1821: Napoleon Bona-parte, 51, dies in exile on the island of St. Helena.

1862: Mexican troops defeat French occupying forces in the Battle of Puebla.

1891: New York’s Carnegie Hall (then named “Music Hall”) has its official opening night, featuring Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as a guest conductor.

1892: Congress passes the Geary Act, which requires Chinese in the U.S. to carry a certificate of residence at all times, or face deportation.

1925: Schoolteacher John T. Scopes is charged in Tennessee with violating a state law that prohibits teaching the theory of evolution.

1934: The first Three Stooges short for Columbia Pictures, “Woman Haters,” is released.

142: Wartime sugar rationing begins in the United States.

1961: Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes America’s first space traveler as he makes a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7.

1981: Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands dies at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland on his 66th day without food.

1994: Singapore canes American teenager Michael Fay for vandalism, a day after the sentence is reduced from six lashes to four in response to an appeal by President Bill Clinton.

2009: Texas health officials confirm the first death of a U.S. resident with swine flu.

2014: A narrowly divided Supreme Court upholds Christian prayers at the start of local council meetings.

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1994: Youngstown Parks and Recreation Director Joseph McCrae says three swimming pools will be open this summer, Johnston Pool, North Side and Borts.

Dr. Raymond Beiersdorfer, Youngstown State University geology professor, will work with NASA on basalt experiments that could lead to ways of developing life on the moon.

About 75 parents and students celebrate the National Day of Prayer by joining hands and praying around the flagpole at Lloyd Elementary School in Austintown. Supt. Richard Denamen says the district cannot sponsor such a service, but prayer is allowed on school grounds if organized by others.

1979: Fred DeLuca, Youngstown Municipal Airport manager, blocks entry to the airport of a 500-gallon fuel tanker leased to Everett Aviation to fuel its planes at the airport. DeLuca is in apparent violation of an FAA ruling that the city can’t stop the owners of private planes from refueling their aircraft.

Three Vienna Township residents are killed in a head-on crash in Warren-Sharon Road near state Route 193. Dead are Paul R. Baran, 35, and his wife, Patricia, 32, and the driver of the second car, Robert J. Green, 19.

Atty. Joe Maxim and Youngstown State Professor Al Bright are the principal speakers for a Law Day program at the Buckeye Elks Youth Center.

1969: An underground short circuit knocks out power in a three-block section of Boardman Street, affecting the city police station and jail, county building and jail, Hotel Ohio and keeping WFMJ TV and radio off the air for more than two hours.

At least four Youngstown area residents are believed to be aboard a 26-foot cabin cruiser that is overdue on a Lake Erie boat trip from Port Clinton to Conneaut. Aboard are Walter and Eva Hemma and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pastersky.

Lloyd McCrory, assistant superintendent of Youngstown public schools, tells an audience at Trinity United Methodist Church that he expects many teachers to resign and leave the city if the levy appearing on the primary election ballot fails.

1944: Three boys are believed to have drowned in Mosquito Creek Reservoir after their boat overturned. Missing are Donald Hudson, 15; Jack Tarr, 16, and Albert Johnson, 17.

Ursuline nuns have arranged to buy “The Mansion,” the former Henry Wick house and 30 acres, which has been leased as a dine and dance spot for nine years. They have sold “Glen Garda,” their summer home on Ellsworth- Canfield Road.

The Vindicator’s 11th annual spelling bee will decide the champion speller from 93 public and parochial schools.