YEARS AGO FOR MAY 26

Today is Sunday, May 26, the 146th day of 2019. There are 219 days left in the year.

Associated Press

On this date in:

1647: Alse “Alice” Young is hanged in Hartford, Conn., in the first recorded execution of a “witch” in the American colonies.

1865: Confederate forces west of the Mississippi surrender in New Orleans.

1868: The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends with his acquittal on the remaining charges.

1897: The Gothic horror novel “Dracula” by Bram Stoker is first published in London.

1938: The House Un-American Activities Committee is established by Congress.

1954: Explosions rock the aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Rhode Island, killing 103 sailors. (The initial blast was blamed on leaking catapult fluid ignited by the flames of a jet.)

1969: Apollo 10 astronauts return to Earth after a successful eight-day dress rehearsal for the first manned moon landing.

1972: President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow. (The U.S. withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)

1978: Resorts Casino Hotel, the first legal U.S. casino outside Nevada, opens in Atlantic City, N.J.

1981: Fourteen people are killed when a Marine jet crashes onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off Florida.

2005: President George W. Bush receives Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the White House; Bush calls Abbas a courageous democratic reformer and bolsters his standing at home with $50 million in assistance.

2009: President Barack Obama nominates federal appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.

2014: Pope Francis honors Jews killed in the Holocaust and in terrorist attacks during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem as he wraps up his Mideast pilgrimage.

2018: The leaders of North and South Korea meet for the second time in a month in a surprise summit at a border village to discuss Kim Jong Un’s potential meeting with President Donald Trump.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Ninety-four of the Youngstown City School District’s 671 seniors have not passed the state proficiency test and will not graduate in June.

Columbiana County Fair Board is seeking funding to add 1,000 grandstand seats at the fairgrounds. The estimated cost is between $200,000 and $400,000.

A new unit for prisoners with psychological problems has been established at the state’s Trumbull Correctional Institution and is being run by a private contractor. Fifty-two prisoners are in the unit.

1979: Boxer Earnie Shavers of Newton Falls is disappointed after an easy victory at the Coliseum over Eddie Porett of Puerto Rico, saying he needed more work to get ready for his heavyweight title bout against Larry Holmes.

The Rev. Albert J. Hubler, former pastor of Poland United Methodist Church and new Akron District superintendent, will speak at the first Mahoning Valley-wide clergy luncheon at the Sokol Center.

After 76 years as a refuge for unwed mothers, the Florence Crittenton Home at 1161 McGuffey Road will no longer be used as a residence for unmarried pregnant women after Sept. 30, when United Way’s funding of the home runs out.

1969: Commencement services for more than 5,000 high school seniors will be held throughout Mahoning County between May 31 and June 20.

Howland zoology teacher Raymond Crawford takes 12 of his students on a nine-day marine biology field trip to the Florida Keys over spring break.

After the broadcast of a TV interview with racketeer Thomas Licavoli, Ohio Penitentiary Warden Harold J. Cardwell announces there will be no more jailhouse interviews. “Interviews with prisoners here cause us nothing by trouble,” he says.

Weekend burglars loot Betty Goodman’s fashionable dress shop on South Phelps Street downtown taking an undetermined number of dresses.

1944: Many 16-year-old boys hopeful of getting into the armed forces have been appearing at local recruiting offices since it was announced that the merchant marine reduced its age requirement. U.S. armed forces still draw the recruitment line at 17.

Plans are underway to open a big bingo parlor in a vacant market on Glenwood Avenue near Indianola Avenue, but the operators have not decided which charity will get to split the profits.

The hijacking of a $20,000 load of black-market whiskey that was being brought to Youngstown and the kidnapping of the driver – which was never reported to police – is brought to the attention of detectives by a member of the driver’s family.