YEARS AGO FOR MAY 6

Today is Monday, May 6, the 126th day of 2019. There are 239 days left in the year.

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On this day in:

1863: The Civil War Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia ends with a Confederate victory over Union forces.

1889: The Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.

1910: Britain’s Edwardian era ends with the death of King Edward VII; he is succeeded by George V.

1915: Babe Ruth hits his first major-league home run as a player for the Boston Red Sox.

1937: The hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg catches fire and crashes while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, N.J.; 35 of the 97 people on board are killed along with a crewman on the ground.

1941: Josef Stalin assumes the Soviet premiership.

1954: Medical student Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in 3:59.4.

1992: Actress Marlene Dietrich dies at her Paris home at age 90.

2013: Kidnap-rape victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who went missing separately about a decade earlier while in their teens or early 20s, are rescued from a house just south of downtown Cleveland.

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1994: East Liverpool Mayor James Scarfide will resign from office in the fall to attend the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

The Boardman Board of Education is considering putting a bond issue on the ballot to finance an auditorium that has been discussed in the community for 25 years.

Vienna Township trustees are questioning whether a master plan for the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport would result in over-development around the airport.

1979: Susan Ezzo, an eighth-grade student at St. Patrick School, wins The Vindicator spelling bee after dueling for three rounds with runner-up Cheryl Zarlenga of Canfield Middle School.

Arby’s, the roast-beef sandwich chain that got its start in Youngstown, begins the move of its Belmont Avenue offices to Atlanta. About 35 of the 150 employees who once worked at the office will transfer to Georgia.

Thomas Coal, 22, escapes serious injury when his cigarette apparently sparks a natural-gas explosion when he opens the front door of his brother’s home at 81 Rutledge Ave. on Youngstown’s East Side. The house is destroyed and two adjacent houses are damaged.

1969: The Rev. Homer J.R. Elford, D.D., senior pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, says “a city which does not make adequate provision for the education of its children and youth of the community will, before long, be a dead city.”

The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority receives 11 proposals for a second high-rise apartment building for low-income elderly from six developers, including one proposal for a downtown site.

Ronald E. Towns Jr. is named general superintendent of the Brier Hill plant of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., succeeding Thomas Cleary Jr.

1944: The billion-dollar Cities Services Co., parent of the Ohio Public Service Co. operating in Warren, Alliance, Sebring and other Ohio cities, is ordered by the Securities and Exchange Commission to dispose of either its utility business or its huge oil business.

One of the largest caches of beer and whiskey uncovered in recent months by state liquor inspectors is found in a 12-room house off Route 62 just north of Canfield. Slot machines and a cash register were also found.

Mrs. Helen Clark of Steel Street pleads not guilty to charges of endangering her four small children who were burned with lye when left alone. The children are hospitalized in fair condition.