YEARS AGO FOR MAY 19

Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2019. There are 226 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1649: England is declared a republic by Parliament following the execution of King Charles I. (The monarchy was restored in 1660.)

1913: Gov. Hiram Johnson of California signs the Webb-Hartley Law prohibiting “aliens ineligible to citizenship” from owning farm land, a measure targeting Asian immigrants, particularly Japanese.

1921: Congress passes, and President Warren G. Harding signs, the Emergency Quota Act, which establishes national quotas for immigrants.

1935: T.E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” dies in Dorset, England, six days after being injured in a motorcycle crash.

1943: In his second wartime address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledges his country’s full support in the fight against Japan; that evening, Churchill meets with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House, where the two leaders agree on May 1, 1944, as the date for the D-Day invasion of France (the operation ended up being launched more than a month later).

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1994: Preparations are being made for the closing of Woodside Hospital, the state psychiatric hospital on Youngstown’s South Side, says Ronald A. Marian, executive director of the Mahoning County Mental Health Board.

A two-ton ceramic sculpture by Viola Frey is being assembled in the Butler Institute of American Art’s Dennison Gallery. “Column, World, Man” will be on loan for four years.

Lee Krolopp, 14, an eighth-grader at Reed Middle School in Hubbard who received a heart transplant in Pittsburgh in 1991, will ride his bicycle in the American Heart Association’s HeartRide ’94.

1979: U.S. Rep. Ronald M. Mottle, Cleveland area Democrat, writes to President Jimmy Carter, asking that he reconsider his nomination of Atty. Nathaniel R. Jones to the federal appeals court. Mottle says Jones filed five major school desegregation suits in Ohio, which he says cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

Dale Peskin, Vindicator staff writer, is awarded Northeast Ohio’s Excellence in Journalism Award for his coverage of the Youngstown steel crisis.

Atty. Robert McGeough, chairman of the board of trustees of the Children’s Rehabilitation Center, presents a 10-year service award to Lucille Woodford at the center’s annual Daisy Awards Brunch to honor volunteers.

1969: A great-grandson was best man and the bride’s daughter was matron of honor when James Brown, 91, and Stella Wright, 77, were married in Nazarene Church of Wellsville. They have 256 descendants.

The synagogue today provides both a philosophy of life and a bulwark of moral judgment, Dr. Leon D. Stitskin, assistant to the president of Yeshiva University, tells some 300 celebrants of the 65th anniversary of Temple Emanu-El.

Michael Herald, runner-up for the Democratic nomination for 1st Ward councilman in the May 6 primary, officially asks for a recount in the ward’s 32 precincts. Only 59 votes separated Herald from winner John Franken.

1944: City Councilman Myron Price, chairman of council’s special investigation committee, will introduce legislation to license and regulate bingo and keno games, similar to the ordinance recently enacted by Cleveland.

James Harding, 80, treasurer of the Canfield Fair Board for 15 years and one of the best known men in this part of the country, dies in South Side Hospital, three weeks after suffering a stroke.