Today in History

Today is Monday, April 10, the 100th day of 2006. There are 265 days left in the year. On this date in 1912, the RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is incorporated. In 1925, the novel "The Great Gatsby," by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is first published. In 1953, the three-dimensional horror movie "House of Wax," produced by Warner Brothers and starring Vincent Price, premieres in New York. In 1963, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher fails to surface off Cape Cod, Mass., in a disaster that claims 129 lives. In 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare. In 1981, imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands wins election to the British Parliament. In 1998, the Northern Ireland peace talks conclude as negotiators reach a landmark settlement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks.
April 10, 1981: The historic Carriage House in Poland is destroyed in a practice burn by 32 members of the Poland Volunteer Fire Department. The fire was so hot that it blistered the paint on the back wall of the nearby Village Hall.
Three Youngstown diocesan priests are retiring: Msgr. Clarence A. Halter, the Rev. William O'Neill and the Rev. Michael Gawron.
April 10, 1966: The annual spring surge of new car buying brings surprisingly strong March automobile sales for the Big Three, which is good news for the Mahoning Valley, where about 25 percent of the economic activity is hinged to the auto industry.
Stock car racing returns to the Canfield Speedway for the 1966 season, with 22 cars, most of them Fords and Chevrolets, undergoing ARCA inspections for the first race.
April 10, 1956: Youngstown Building Inspector Robert Findlay will go to Cleveland to inspect the Pigeon Hole parking tower in Cleveland that has begun leaning. Youngstown is the site of the first Pigeon Hole parking structure in Ohio, and although it appears sound, Findlay says he wants to look at the Cleveland building.
Youngstown police say Herbert A. Hadden Jr., 26, was trapped in his wrecked automobile at the end of Kimmel Avenue near Kimmel Brook Homes for two hours before passing youths noticed the car up against a tree and called police.
April 10, 1931: A resolution reaffirming the belief that prohibition is the most effective way of curbing liquor traffic is adopted by the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs, meeting in Youngstown.
Mike Kegish, 41, is overcome by heat and dies while working at the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. seamless mill. Unseasonable temperatures in the area rose to 80 degrees.
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