YEARS AGO FOR MAY 17

Today is Friday, May 17, the 137th day of 2019. There are 228 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1536: Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn invalid after she failed to produce a male heir; Boleyn, already condemned for high treason, would be executed two days later.

1792: The New York Stock Exchange has its beginnings as a group of brokers meet under a tree on Wall Street and sign the Buttonwood Agreement.

1946: President Harry S. Truman seizes control of the nation’s railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.

1954: A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court hands down its Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision which holds that racially segregated public schools are inherently unequal, and therefore unconstitutional.

1973: A special committee convened by the U.S. Senate begins its televised hearings into the Watergate scandal.

1980: Rioting that would claim 18 lives erupts in Miami’s Liberty City after an all-white jury in Tampa acquits four former Miami police officers of fatally beating black insurance executive Arthur McDuffie.

2004: Massachusetts becomes the first state to allow same-sex marriages.

2017: The Justice Department appoints former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special counsel to oversee a federal investigation into potential coordination between Russia and the 2016 Donald Trump campaign.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Warren’s school superintendent, Louis Cardamone, announces his retirement, but it won’t last long. He has accepted a job as superintendent in Fort Knox, Ky.

Cold Metal Products Inc. of Youngstown announces record sales of $61.7 million for the first quarter of 1994. Net income was more than $1.4 million or 26 cents a share.

Youngstown Finance Director David Bozanich says the city has taken on an unknown liability by buying 19 downtown buildings before evicting all of the tenants, which include residents and bars.

1979: The Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church files suit against the city of Niles in U.S. District Court in Cleveland claiming that the city’s new solicitation ordinance violates the First Amendment.

Youngstown Mayor J. Phillip Richley says that an increase in the city’s 1.5 percent sales tax appears to be the only way that the city could give employees pay raises and maintain services.

Linda Valerio, a sophomore at Campbell Memorial High, and Michelle Richetto, a senior at Western Reserve, will lead a small Youngstown contingent at the Girls State Swimming Meet.

1969: Linda Lee Stiles of Struthers, a junior at Youngstown State University, will be crowned “Blue Tiger Queen” of the 910th Tactical Airlift Group at the Youngstown Air Reserve Base.

Cpl. John Tucker, 22, of Youngstown, a veteran of Vietnam, is fatally shot at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where he has been stationed. Tucker leaves his widow, two young children and mother.

Atty. Myron Reinman, assistant city law director under the Frank Franko administration, collapses and dies while taking a walk with his wife and brother-in-law.

1944: Louis Raver announces that Raver’s Tavern, 2 W. Boardman St., one of the most famous eating places for 19 years, is closing because of a lack of help.

Funds are short and layoffs may be necessary again in the Mahoning County dog warden department. In 1943, all but the warden and one deputy were temporarily dismissed