YEARS AGO FOR MAY 14

Today is Tuesday, May 14, the 134th day of 2019. There are 231 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1643: Louis XIV becomes king of France at age 4 upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.

1796: English physician Edward Jenner inoculates 8-year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter.

1804: The Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest leaves camp near present-day Hartford, Ill.

1948: According to the current-era calendar, the independent state of Israel is proclaimed in Tel Aviv by David Ben-Gurion, who becomes its first prime minister.

1955: Representatives from eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign the Warsaw Pact in Poland. (The Pact was dissolved in 1991.)

2001: The Supreme Court rules 8-0 that there is no exception in federal law for people to use marijuana for medical purposes.

2008: The Interior Department declares the polar bear a threatened species because of the loss of Arctic sea ice.

2009: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accuses the CIA of misleading her and other lawmakers about the waterboarding of detainees during the Bush administration.

2018: Israel and the U.S. have a festive inauguration ceremony for the new American Embassy in Jerusalem.

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1994: A Champion couple, Robert and Loretta Ryan persevered, going to college while raising a family and holding full-time jobs. They were among 115 graduates receiving associate degrees at Kent State University’s Trumbull Campus. Paul Dutton, chairman of the Ohio Board of Regents, delivered the commencement address.

Mahoning County commissioners adopt new regulations giving the building department the power to order people to clean up their properties and to eliminate safety hazards.

Two veteran elementary teachers, Sara Yelin, a kindergarten teacher in Liberty, and Donna Nolfi, a first-grade teacher in Austintown, have advice for parents: write down questions before a parent-teacher conference and take notes during the session.

1979: Some 100 elderly residents of the Windsor Manor Nursing Home just west of Lisbon escape without serious injury when a fire of undetermined origin breaks out.

State liquor agents cite the Girard Fraternal Order of Eagles Lodge with violating gambling and liquor laws.

Daniels International Corp., which has the contract for expansion at the General Motors Lordstown plant, agrees with the Building Trades Council to use only union labor on the job. Daniels has the reputation as the second-largest nonunion building contractor in the country.

1969: Oil ignited in a quenching tank and sent flames and smoke into the ceiling of Fox Industries, Simon Road, causing $5,000 damage.

An architect’s rendering is released showing the $2.8 million Trumbull Branch of Kent State University.

The Rev. Lonnie Simon, New Bethel Baptist Church, addresses members of the board of the Organization of Protestant Men at the Youngs-town Council of Churches offices. He showed pictures of his recent trip to the Holy Land.

1944: All priestly privileges for the Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski are taken from him by Springfield, Mass., Bishop Thomas H. O’Leary hours after the priest returned from visiting Marshal Joseph Stalin in Moscow. The Polish-American priest, who has familial ties to Youngstown, declares he is being “crucified for my church.”

Tech. Sgt. Thomas Cunningham of Youngstown, radio operator on a bomber, is home on a 21-day furlough after completing 25 missions over Germany.

“You can’t leave your job here,” the late publisher William F. Maag Sr. told Helen Cross in 1918. She just celebrated her silver anniversary with the paper, and the printers gave her a money gift.