YEARS AGO FOR MAY 22

Today is Wednesday, May 22, the 142nd day of 2019. There are 223 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1868: A major train robbery occurs near Marshfield, Ind., as members of the Reno gang make off with $96,000 in loot.

1939: The foreign ministers of Germany and Italy, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Galeazzo Ciano, sign a “Pact of Steel” committing the two countries to a military alliance.

1960: An earthquake of magnitude-9.5, the strongest ever measured, strikes southern Chile, claiming some 1,655 lives.

1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking at the University of Michigan, outlines the goals of his “Great Society,” saying that it “rests on abundance and liberty for all” and “demands an end to poverty and racial injustice.”

1992: After a reign lasting nearly 30 years, Johnny Carson hosts NBC’s “Tonight Show” for the final time (Jay Leno would take over as host three days later).

1998: A federal judge rules that Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before the grand jury in the Monica Lewinsky investigation.

2001: Ford Motor Co. plans to spend more than $2 billion to replace up to 13 million Firestone tires on its vehicles because of safety concerns.

2011: A tornado devastates Joplin, Mo., with winds up to 250 mph, claiming at least 159 lives.

2017: A suicide bomber sets off an improvised explosive device that kills 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England.

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1994: The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber is completing a review of potential baseball stadium sites and putting together projected cost estimates for the Mahoning County commissioners.

Relatives of Tami Engstrom, 22, of Hubbard, who was murdered in 1991 by Kenneth Biros, want a further investigation to determine if there are unsolved crimes that he might be suspected of committing.

Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Harry Meshel will receive the Youngstown State University Alumni Association’s 1994 Distinguished Citizen Award.

1979: Youngstown police and fire union officers say their members will not strike as long as there is movement in negotiations with Mayor Phillip Richley’s administration.

“What Price Vietnam?” focusing on the sacrifices of the veterans of that Southeast Asia war will be the theme of the United Veterans Council’s 37th annual Memorial Day parade.

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1969: Officials of eight cities, the county and the state gather in Youngstown for the first of a series of meetings that could lead to the creation of an area-wide public agency to deal with pollution of the Mahoning River.

Production resumes at Youngstown Steel Door Co. in the Wickliffe neighborhood of Austintown after a wildcat walkout shut down the plant at midnight. About 125 workers walked off their jobs to protest the suspension of Kenneth Williams.

Second Ward Councilman Herman “Pete” Starks asks that Mayor Anthony Flask and city engineer Edmund Salata do what is necessary to obtain a federal offer of $843,000 for interceptor sewers in Youngstown.

1944: Three Republican councilmen severely criticize Democratic Mayor Ralph O’Neill for “failing to give service to all sections of the city.”

Byron Wade is re-elected chairman of the Mahoning County Republican Central Committee by a 2-1 vote over John Marsh, who sought the chairmanship at the meeting in Central Auditorium.

Youngstown receives approval from the War Production Board to proceed with construction of the $175,000 garbage disposal incinerator.