Today is Tuesday, April 11, the 101st day of 2006. There are 264 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberate the notorious Nazi concentration camp

Today is Tuesday, April 11, the 101st day of 2006. There are 264 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberate the notorious Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany.
In 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates as emperor of France and is banished to the island of Elba. In 1898, President McKinley asks Congress for a declaration of war against Spain. In 1899, the treaty ending the Spanish-American War is declared in effect. In 1951, President Truman relieves Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his commands in the Far East. In 1953, Oveta Culp Hobby becomes the first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. In 1968, President Johnson signs into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1970, Apollo 13 blasts off on its ill-fated mission to the moon. (The astronauts manage to return safely). In 1979, Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seize control.
April 11, 1981: The personal effects and household belongings of former Columbiana County Sheriff George Hayes, including a death mask of Pretty Boy Floyd, the bank robber and killer shot to death near Calcutta in 1934, will go on the auction block.
Negotiators for the Youngstown Board of Education and its striking teachers are meeting in an undisclosed location in an attempt to resolve the strike, which is in its 36th working day.
Gasoline prices in the Youngstown area drop by 2 cents a gallon in March, with regular self-serve selling at $1.24 a gallon; unleaded at $1.30.
Secretary of State Anthony Celebrezze takes himself out of the Democratic race for Ohio governor in 1982, when Gov. James A. Rhodes' term ends.
April 11, 1966: The Army may reactivate the Ravenna Arsenal for the war in Vietnam. Workers are removing 155 mm howitzer shells from the earth-covered igloos at the arsenal and shipping the shells by railroad car to Vietnam.
New Castle City Council votes 4-1 to go ahead with $125,000 in sewer projects in three sections of the city.
Westbound holiday traffic on the busy Ohio Turnpike is slowed to a crawl for several hours near the Niles-Youngstown (Route 18) interchange following a chain-reaction accident involving six cars, in which three people were injured.
April 11, 1956: Renewed support for the Ohio River-Lake Erie Canal in Pittsburgh is being urged by the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph in light of an industrial boom in Northeaster Ohio and the impending opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Nat King Cole, the Negro singer and pianist, is attacked on stage by a group of white men in Birmingham, Ala., in front of an audience of 4,000. Six men were arrested by police and charged with assault and inciting a riot.
April 11, 1931: Barring a veto by Gov. White, the Marshall bill legalizing Sunday movies will wipe off the state blue law statutes, the ban against this type of Sunday entertainment.
What is believed by police to have been an attempt to blow up Michael Willo's home at 251 Upland Ave. is discovered when a stick of dynamite packed in cotton and sealed in a mailing tube is found hidden in the bushes at the corner of the front porch.
Youngstown detectives are looking for a gang of apartment house robbers who have taken loot, mostly jewelry, valued at $10,000 over a period of a week or so.
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