Today is Good Friday, April 9, the 100th day of 2004. There are 266 days left in the year. On his

Today is Good Friday, April 9, the 100th day of 2004. There are 266 days left in the year. On his date in 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
In 1682, French explorer Robert La Salle reaches the Mississippi River. In 1939, singer Marian Anderson performs a concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after she was denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 1940, during World War II, Germany invades Denmark and Norway. In 1942, American and Philippine defenders on Bataan capitulate to Japanese forces; the surrender is followed by the notorious Bataan Death March, which claims nearly 10,000 lives. In 1947, a series of tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas claim 169 lives.
April 9, 1979: More than 12,000 General Motors Corp. workers in the Mahoning Valley, idled for a week by a Teamsters strike, are returning to their jobs at the Lordstown Assembly and Packard Electric Division plants.
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It costs taxpayers nearly $800,000 a year to support Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford -- including such items as five television sets for Nixon and $23,000 in long-distance calls for Ford -- U.S. News and World reports.
April 9, 1964: The "most startling development in the city of Youngstown in 50 years" is hinted by Mayor Anthony B. Flask during a meeting on downtown parking with civic leaders and city council. He refused to be more specific.
A $9,400 mortgage lien is placed on the Struthers home of Charles Carabbia, 45-year-old Struthers racketeer by Mrs. Catherine L. Papalia. She is the widow of Bruce A. Papalia, a grocer for 28 years, who died last January. The money was owed to her husband for groceries, Mrs. Papalia said.
A cutback planned in weather bureau operation at the Youngstown Municipal Airport is shelved after U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan meets with President Johnson and asks him to intercede. The bureau will maintain a seven-man, 24-hour-a-day staff at the airport.
April 9, 1954: FBI agents from Youngstown are investigating the theft of a shipment of tungsten valued at $46,800 from a Daniels Motor Freight truck en route from Binghampton, N.Y., to Detroit.
Scientists are looking for an explanation of the blue rain that fell on Detroit, leaving hundreds of houses on the city's Northwest side with blue or purple splotches. There is speculation that vegetable material, possibly pollen spores, reacted with chemicals in the paint.
Two Warren men and two Niles men are given Silver Beaver awards for outstanding service to boyhood at the 35th annual recognition banquet of the Western Reserve Council, Boy Scouts of America. They are Clarence H. Glay, Loyal Geisinger, Stanley Hart and Thomas Madden.
April 9, 1929: A new airplane and a light truck are damaged near Poland Center when the plane crashes into the truck while attempting a takeoff from a road after an emergency landing. Pilot Ronald Smith of New Castle was uninjured, but the plane, belonging to Robert Love of New Castle, was heavily damaged.
Five snarling, cursing thieves, masked and armed, hold up 80 members of the First Rumanian Synagogue congregation in Chicago, taking $7,000 in money and jewels.
Charles Wilson, well-known Beloit resident, dies in Alliance City Hospital from a four-day attack of hiccoughs caused by eating sauerkraut.
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