YEARS AGO FOR MAY 11

Today is Saturday, May 11, the 131st day of 2019. There are 234 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1502: Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere.

1647: Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.

1858: Minnesota becomes the 32nd state of the Union.

1943: In World War II, U.S. forces land on the Aleutian island of Attu, held by the Japanese; Americans would take the island 19 days later.

1953: A tornado kills 114 in Waco, Texas.

1960: Israeli agents capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

1973: The espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case ends as Judge William M. Byrne dismisses all charges, citing government misconduct.

2006: Lawmakers demand answers after a USA Today report that the National Security Agency was secretly collecting records of millions of ordinary Americans’ phone calls; President George W. Bush assured Americans their civil liberties are being “fiercely protected.”

2010: Conservative leader David Cameron, at 43, becomes Britain’s youngest prime minister in almost 200 years.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Ida Barnes, executive director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, says the release of a Mahoning County Jail inmate after he served nine days of a six-month sentence stemming from a fatal car crash shows that the system is failing. The man was released to comply with a federal court order governing jail overcrowding.

U.S. Rep. Tom Ridge from Erie, Pa., wins the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania governor. He will face Democratic Lt. Gov. Mark Singel in November.

Fourth-grade teacher John DePietro spends the night on the roof of Market Street Elementary School in Boardman, making good on his challenge to his students to read 15,000 pages in books. They read 20,000.

1979: Air Force pilots resume training in A-37 jet fighters, the craft in which Lt. Col. H. James English of Girard was killed March 24 near Dayton.

Cyrus Eaton, the billionaire industrialist who died at 95, played an enormous part over the years in shaping the whole economic destiny of the Mahoning Valley, changing the course of the steel industry and transportation.

Lyle Williams’ campaign committee spent roughly $7,000 more than it took in when he was running for the House of Representatives.

1969: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, D-Youngstown, is expected to be released from Bethesda Naval Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he has been recovering after a fall brought on by an inner-ear infection.

One of the Youngstown district’s largest and oldest industrial firms, the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., has only 18 more days of independent existence before it becomes part of New Orleans-based Lykes Corp.

Members of Warren Junior Women’s League have completed settings for the annual Candlelight Charity Ball, their final social event of the season at the Holiday Inn of Niles.

1944:An article in Steel, an iron and steel trade magazine, reports on efforts to have a Lake Erie-Ohio River Waterway built as a postwar project to help the entire steel industry, not just in the Youngstown district.

Petty Officer 2nd Class George Partlow, 22, of Youngstown who was on the American destroyer Landsdale that was sunk April 20 by German torpedo planes in the Mediterranean, is safe, his mother has been informed.

Cpl. Thomas Vaughn and Pfc. Donald Vaughn, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vaughn of Youngstown, met recently in Italy for the first time in two years. Thomas is a field artillery man, and Donald is with the 15th Air Force.