YEARS AGO FOR MAY 29

Today is Wednesday, May 29, the 149th day of 2019. There are 216 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1765: Patrick Henry denounces the Stamp Act before Virginia’s House of Burgesses.

1790: Rhode Island becomes the 13th original colony to ratify the United States Constitution.

1848: Wisconsin becomes the 30th state of the union.

1917: The 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is born in Brookline, Mass.

1953: Mount Everest is conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay of Nepal become the first climbers to reach the summit.

1954: English runner Diane Leather becomes the first woman to run a sub-five-minute mile, finishing in 4:59.6 during the Midland Championships in Birmingham.

1988: President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev open their historic summit in Moscow.

1998: Republican elder statesman Barry Goldwater dies in Paradise Valley, Ariz., at age 89.

2008: The Vatican issues a decree stating that anyone trying to ordain a woman as a priest and any woman who attempted to receive the ordination would incur automatic excommunication.

Actor-comedian Harvey Korman, Emmy winner for “The Carol Burnett Show,” dies in Los Angeles at 81.

2018: ABC cancels the reboot of “Roseanne,” after star Roseanne Barr’s tweet that referred to former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett as a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the “Planet of the Apes.”

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1994: Dr. Jay Katz, professor of law and psychiatry at Yale University, is the speaker at the commencement for 105 new doctors at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.

Campbell Memorial baseball coach Wayne Zetts gets doused with ice water by his team after the Red Devils’ 6-5 win over Mentor Lake Catholic in the Division II Regional finals. Campbell is the defending state champion.

The Belmont Avenue Development Association Inc., which helped to foster improvements on Belmont Avenue, sponsors a parade to highlight the resurgence of the area.

1979: More than 3,000 people brave rain and low temperatures for Youngstown’s Memorial Day Parade.

Vernon Fields, 18, of Croton Avenue, New Castle, Pa., is shot and killed when a rifle that was believed to be unloaded discharged while being held by a 15-year-old relative.

Diamond Shamrock Corp. will move its corporate headquarters from Cleveland to Dallas, partly because of what it characterized as a deteriorating image of the nation’s 18th largest city. (Today, it is the 52nd largest city.)

1969: “Our country has remained strong because of the citizen-soldier concept,” Marine Col. David E. Lownds, former commander at Khe Sanh, tells Woodrow Wilson High students, parents and civic leaders.

Joseph Bucheit & Sons Co. of Youngstown is the apparent low bidder for construction of the proposed $12 million west wing extension at St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Two Youngstown men and one from Niles are among six people who pleaded innocent in U.S. District Court in Cleveland to charges of conspiracy to distribute counterfeit money. They are Mario Guerrieri, Frederick Frem and Paul LaMonge.

1944: Three boys are drowned in the Youngstown district Sunday as thousands flock to parks, lakes and rivers to cool off. The boys are James Rodgers, Donald Jarrett and Harry Crothwaite.

Rumors that racketeers are getting set to flood Youngstown with marble boards are revealed by Sheriff Ralph Elser after he raided three downtown night spots.

Frank Purnell, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., will receive the first honorary degree awarded by Youngstown College.