YEARS AGO FOR MAY 28

Today is Tuesday, May 28, the 148th day of 2019. There are 217 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1533: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of England’s King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid.

1863: The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, made up of freed blacks, leaves Boston to fight for the Union in the Civil War.

1892: The Sierra Club is organized in San Francisco.

1912: The Senate Commerce Committee issues its report on the Titanic disaster that cites a “state of absolute unpreparedness,” improperly tested safety equipment and an “indifference to danger” as some of the causes of an “unnecessary tragedy.”

1918: American troops fight their first major battle during World War I as they launch an offensive against the German-held French village of Cantigny; the Americans succeed in capturing the village.

1929: The first all-color talking picture, “On with the Show!” produced by Warner Bros., opens in New York.

1957: National League owners give permission for the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants to move to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

1977: Some 165 people are killed when fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky.

2009: A white New York City police officer kills an off-duty black colleague in a friendly fire incident in East Harlem.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: A substitute Hubbard schools bus driver is cited in a three-bus accident that injured 43 students after authorities found out that she knew the vehicle had faulty brakes but drove it anyway.

Thomas J. McClurkin, 65, long-time director of the McClurkin Funeral Home in Girard, is struck and killed by a car as he was crossing South State Street in front of the funeral home.

Two young eagles are taken from a nest near Meander Creek Reservoir by Department of Wildlife biologists, weighed, checked, banded and returned to the nest.

1979: George Reiss, Vindicator business editor, writes that the first faint signs of a readjustment in steel buying are appearing and could result in the loss of thousands of local steel jobs and millions of dollars in monthly payrolls.

The Rev. Joseph Palermo, pastor of St. Lucy Church, Campbell, since 1942 is honored by his parish as he prepares to retire.

Almost 900 businesses, professional, labor and legal leaders from the Youngstown district and across the nation attend a dinner at the Mahoning Country Club to honor John T. Smith, former president of the Greater Youngstown Area AFL-CIO Council and now a senior assistant for human affairs for the Steelworkers International.

1969: Youngstown racketeer Joey Naples, who began serving two concurrent terms in 1964 but was released twice on writs of habeas corpus, will return to the Ohio Penitentiary to resume serving time.

“President Nixon is turning to the principles of the late Ohio U.S. Sen Robert A. Taft in framing his best new programs,” Sen Charles McCurdy Mathias of Maryland tells 400 local Republicans at a $100-per-plate dinner in the Mural Rom.

The price of cigarettes in the Youngstown area is increasing by a penny a pack, bringing the cost of a carton of cigarettes to $3.01 for regular and $3.12 for king size.

1944: Poland Village is without electricity for two hours after a brief but severe thunderstorm sweeps through the Mahoning Valley.

The Youngstown district’s shortage of male labor has become so critical that a local foundry working on an urgent war order with the highest priority was able to find only two men to fill an order for 20 men.

Youngstown Protestant churches have responded completely to the plea of the Federated Churches to throw their doors open for meditation and prayer on D-Day.