YEARS AGO FOR MAY 20

Today is Monday, May 20, the 140th day of 2019. There are 225 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1521: Ignatius of Loyola is wounded by a cannonball while defending Pamplona against the French; during his convalescence he turned to religion, becoming a leader of the Counter-Reformation and the founder of the Jesuits.

1873: Levi Strauss and tailor Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for men’s work pants made with copper rivets.

1927: Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France.

1932: Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

1948: Chiang Kai-shek is inaugurated as the first president of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

1961: A white mob attacks a busload of Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Ala., prompting the federal government to send in U.S. marshals to restore order.

2009: The Senate votes overwhelmingly, 90-6, to keep the prison at Guantanamo Bay open for the foreseeable future and forbid the transfer of any detainees to facilities in the United States.

2018: Venezuelan officials declare socialist leader Nicolas Maduro the easy winner of the country’s presidential election.

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1994: Youngstown State University students and employees will be able by 2000 to connect to worldwide computer networks from their dormitory rooms, offices and homes under a campus-wide $11.5 million “Electronic Campus” program.

Mahoning Valley political leaders memorialize Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who died of cancer at the age of 64. Among those praising her are Dr. William Binning, former Mahoning County Republican Party chairman; state Rep. Bob Hagan; state Sen Joseph Vukovich II; David Johnson, Columbiana County Republican Party chairman; Judge James Lanzo, Struthers Municipal Court, and Arthur U. Magee, Trumbull County commissioner.

Republican Secretary of State Bob Taft says “Ohio needs innovative approaches, such as voting by mail, to remove barriers to voter participation.

1979: U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams confirms that the FMC Corp., one of the world’s leading manufacturers of machinery and industrial chemicals, is considering a site in the Mahoning Valley.

Indiana Airlines of Indiana, Pa., is proposing six round-trip daily flights between Youngstown Municipal Airport and Pittsburgh International Airport.

Many Youngstown area service stations are restricting their hours of operation to conserve their allotments of gasoline.

1969: First Lt. Jerry Torba, a graduate of Liberty High School and Youngstown State University, is reported severely wounded when the medical evacuation helicopter he was piloting was shot down in South Vietnam, near the Laotian border. His left leg was amputated.

Austintown Township trustees reject a requested zone change for land on Crum Road near Pleasant Hill Plat that would allow construction of a large truck terminal.

First steps are taken in the construction of a 110-room, $1 million addition to the 400-room Hotel Ohio in downtown Youngstown, with the demolition of unused structures behind the hotel.

1944: United Airlines files a petition with the FAA to add direct flights from Youngstown Municipal Airport to Juneau and Anchorage, Alaska.

The Youngstown Playhouse opens its sixth and final production of the season with “Heaven Can Wait,” starring Paul White and Allene Meacham.

Unless there is some heavy rain soon, the Valley will go into its long drought season with only half as much water as the big new reservoirs can store.