YEARS AGO FOR MAY 25
Today is Saturday, May 25, the 145th day of 2019. There are 220 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1787: The Constitutional Convention begins at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia after enough delegates show up up for a quorum.
1810: Argentina begins its revolt against Spanish rule with the forming of the Primera Junta in Buenos Aires.
1895: Playwright Oscar Wilde is convicted of a morals charge in London; he is sentenced to two years in prison.
1935: Babe Ruth hits his last three career home runs – Nos. 712, 713 and 714 – for the Boston Braves in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. (The Pirates won, 11-7.)
1959: The U.S. Supreme Court, in State Athletic Commission v. Dorsey, strikes down a Louisiana law prohibiting interracial boxing matches.
1961: President John F. Kennedy tells Congress: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” (The U.S. achieved that goal in July 1969.)
1965: Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round of their world heavyweight title rematch in Lewiston, Maine.
2017: Republican Greg Gianforte wins a special election for Montana’s sole U.S. House seat a day after being charged with assaulting a reporter.
VINDICATOR FILES
1994: Like trolley cars and milkmen, four-way stop intersections are about to become a thing of the past in Youngstown. Traffic volume tests showed that none of the 43 four-way stops have enough traffic to justify their use.
Someone mailed back $1,164 that was stolen from a staff lounge at Canfield High School, but police say they will continue their investigation.
Youngstown’s food-for-guns program is expected to begin June 13, and city officials are building up the cash needed to provide $65 food vouchers to anyone who turns in a firearm. Assault rifles will be worth $100 in vouchers.
1979: Gasoline prices in Ohio reach 90 cents a gallon and fuel reserves are low, but the AAA reports that about 60 percent of the state’s stations will be open Saturday and Sunday of the Memorial Day weekend.
Bowling Green police say the letters KKK were scrawled in blood on the walls of an apartment in which a Youngstown woman, Kimberly Jackson, was beaten to death.
The Lawrence County Board of Commissioners authorizes spending $66,000 in federal CETA grants for construction of a 7-mile bicycle trail from Union Township to the Ohio line.
1969: Ancient valves at two locations fail, sending gushing water along Federal Street in downtown Youngstown.
Bruce Redfern, a senior at Chaney High School, will be installed as master councilor of the Youngstown Chapter, Order of DeMolay.
Youngstown residents disposing of grass clippings in street gutters face arrest. City Engineer Edmund Salata said the clippings become matted and block storm sewers.
A teachers strike in New Castle is setting a record for length in Pennsylvania, while a four-day strike in Sharon has resumed and may continue.
1944: Congressman Michael Kirwan, D-Youngstown, launches a campaign to get full House of Representatives support for a Beaver-Mahoning River waterway.
Harold Bell Wright, former Lowellville resident who later became famous as America’s first millionaire author for such books as “The Shepherd of the Hills,” dies in California of bronchial pneumonia.
An unidentified well-dressed woman drove up to the Phelps Street entrance of City Hall in a large sedan, walked through the door and deposited a small paper bag half-filled with garbage at the door of Mayor Ralph O’Neill.