YEARS AGO FOR MAY 27

Today is Monday, May 27, the 147th day of 2019. There are 218 days left in the year. This is the Memorial Day observance.

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On this date in:

1199: King John of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey nearly two months after the death of his brother, Richard I (“The Lion-Hearted”).

1861: Chief Justice Roger Taney, sitting as a federal circuit court judge in Baltimore, rules that President Abraham Lincoln lacks the authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus (Lincoln disregarded the ruling).

1933: The Chicago World’s Fair, celebrating “A Century of Progress,” officially opens.

1941: The British Royal Navy sinks the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of some 2,000 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the HMS Hood with the loss of more than 1,400 lives.

1942: Doris “Dorie” Miller, a cook aboard the USS West Virginia, becomes the first African-American to receive the Navy Cross for displaying “extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety” during Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.

1995: Actor Christopher Reeve is left paralyzed when he is thrown from his horse during a jumping event in Charlottesville, Va.

2018: LeBron James reaches his eighth straight NBA Finals as the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Boston Celtics 87-79 in Game 7 of the semifinals.

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1994: A memorial service is held at the Rayen School for 41 city school district students who have been slain since 1941. This school year alone, six students have been slain, three from Rayen, two from East and one from Wilson.

U.S. Reps. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Poland, and Sherrod Brown, D-Lorain, criticize President Bill Clinton for renewing most-favored-nation trading status for China.

Fred Alberini Jr. is re-elected chairman of the Trumbull County Democratic Party and Christ Michelakis is elected first vice president and Mary Jane Schubert, secretary.

1979: A dramatic increase in Juvenile Crime in Trumbull County is placing a strain on the already crowded conditions at the county’s Juvenile Justice Center and has officials discussing ways to find a larger facility to detain young offenders.

State officials planning the first Ohio Trade Mission to China say the Chinese need the heavy industrial products made in the Mahoning Valley.

After 35 years of teaching and touching the lives of more than 14,000 students, Etheleda Humphrey, Boardman High School’s choral music director is retiring.

1969: The Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission opens a new 400-foot beach on the east shore of Lake Milton, replacing its public beach at Craig Beach, which was closed because of inadequate restroom facilities.

Jerry Knight, executive director of the Mahoning-Trumbull Council of Governments, warns that if housing trends continue, before the end of the century, Youngstown will be all black and the suburbs all white.

A bold bandit terrorized an East Side housewife, Mrs. Adah Morrison, threatening her with a butcher knife and tying her hands and feet to a chair before escaping with $3 and valuables.

1944: The 450 students at Penhale School in Campbell collected more than 6 tons of paper in the last week of their campaign. They were rewarded with ice cream.

Capt. Randall Hendricks, Thunderbolt fighter-bomber pilot from Youngstown, destroys a vital bridge by himself behind Hitler’s West Wall in Belgium, but is reprimanded because he wasn’t assigned that target.

Complaints of valuations of six large downtown commercial properties are submitted to the county board of revision, which is holding hearings on the present appraisal of land in the county.