Today is Friday, April 7, the 97th day of 2006. There are 268 days left in the year. On this date in 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in

Today is Friday, April 7, the 97th day of 2006. There are 268 days left in the year. On this date in 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
In 1927, an audience in New York sees an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television. In 1939, Italy invades Albania. (Less than a week later, Italy annexes Albania.) In 1945, during World War II, American planes intercept a Japanese fleet that was headed for Okinawa on a suicide mission. In 1947, auto pioneer Henry Ford dies in Dearborn, Mich., at age 83. In 1948, the World Health Organization is founded. In 1949, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific" opens on Broadway.
April 7, 1981: Nearly 100 parents and students stage a sit-down protest at the Youngstown Board of Education offices in an effort to force an end to the seven-week teachers strike.
Second shift workers are to return to the General Motors Assembly Division plant at Lordstown following delivery of engines from Flint, Mich., that are needed for the new J-car. GM says about 30 percent of the cars being ordered have standard transmissions, which were in short supply.
April 7, 1966: Youngstown Mayor Anthony B. Flask tells city council that he has no objection to Trumbull County Commissioner Robert Hagan's proposal for a regional airport at the Ravenna Arsenal to serve Northeast Ohio, as long as the city isn't expected to support it financially. Flask said Youngstown Municipal Airport could be developed as a regional facility if other subdivisions want to share in the cost of maintenance.
Youngstown City Council passes an ordinance declaring the old Palace Theater a public nuisance, one of several steps taken by the city to get the structure demolished.
Population of the Youngstown-Warren Standard Metropolitan Area is 548,303, a gain of 7.7 percent since the 1960 federal census.
April 7, 1956: The state Highway Department gives the green light for construction of state Route 18 as a four-lane divided highway for 22 miles from the Niles-Youngstown interchange on the Turnpike to the Ohio Expressway. The project will cost $14.3 million.
Two smooth-working gunmen, their faces hidden by red handkerchiefs, rob an assistant manager of the new Loblaw Supermarket in Cornersburg of several thousand dollars.
Engineers and construction workers scramble in an effort to prevent an eight-tier, 640,000-pound "pigeon-hole" parking building from toppling over on Huron Road and Ontario Street.
April 7, 1931: Attorneys for Mahoning County Prosecutor Ray Thomas tell the Ohio Supreme Court that Mahoning County Common Pleas judges have disabled themselves from sitting in judgment of Thomas by their "pernicious and unfair" charges against Thomas, who is alleged to have accepted payment from utility companies.
City council drops plans for building a new fire station west of the downtown business district and orders an architect to prepare plans for repairing the central fire station.
Youngstown bookmakers have practically closed up their office and are accepting "curb stone" bets only secretly after the reopening of a war on race horse gambling by police Capt. W.J. Engelhardt and his vice raiders, on orders of Mayor Joseph L. Heffernan.