Today is Saturday, April 15, the 105th day of 2006. There are 260 days left in the year. On this date in 1912, the British luxury liner Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than

Today is Saturday, April 15, the 105th day of 2006. There are 260 days left in the year. On this date in 1912, the British luxury liner Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg. About 1,500 people die.
In 1850, the city of San Francisco is incorporated. In 1861, three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, President Lincoln declares a state of insurrection and calls out Union troops. In 1865, President Lincoln dies, several hours after being shot at Ford's Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson becomes the nation's 17th president. In 1945, during World War II, British and Canadian troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. In 1945, President Roosevelt, who had died April 12, is buried at the Roosevelt family home in Hyde Park, N.Y.
April 15, 1981: A leaky roof proves to be the undoing of an FBI eavesdropping operation at Vincenzo Prato's Calla Mar Manor on Market Street Extension. The operation came to light after FBI agents had to get a federal court order to recover a video camera and two microphones, which were found by a workman called in by Prato to check on a leak in the roof.
J.B. deSaulles, assistant chief of the Boardman Fire Department and general manager of American Ambulance, is named board chairman of the Mahoning Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Seniors in Youngstown's school district will still be able to graduate in June under a contingency plan set up by the school district, despite a teacher strike that is entering its eighth week.
April 15, 1966: Youngstown University's application to become Youngstown State University is hailed by Gov. James Rhodes as "fitting well in the pattern of higher education we are seeking for young people."
A suspect in the $10,000 armed robbery of Tony Buttar's Uptown jewelry store in December dies in a Pittsburgh Hospital of wounds suffered in a gun battle in January following a tavern robbery in Pittsburgh a month later.
The Youngstown Board of Control approves joint acquisition with the Ohio Department of Highways of right-of-way for the Division Street Bridge.
April 15, 1956: An additional shopping night downtown will be inaugurated by member stores of the Downtown Board of Trade with hours each Thursday of 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
A strong possibility exists that both Cleveland and Pittsburgh may eventually throw powerful support behind proposals to build a Lake Erie-Ohio River Waterway as the result of the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Construction of a $50 million residential and shopping community, the largest privately owned development of its kind in Ohio history, gets underway at the Cleveland suburb of Parma.
April 15, 1931: The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously bars Mahoning County judges from pursuing their own investigation into the relationship between public utilities companies and public officials, including county Prosecutor Ray L. Thomas. The court said the judges condemned Thomas without a hearing.
Month after month of subnormal precipitation has made the ground in the Mahoning Valley so dry that the region is threatened with the worst drought in its history.
Minnie Planinshek of Youngstown files suit against owners of the Buckeye Dance Hall in Youngstown Road, Warren, seeking $10,000 for injuries she says she sustained when knocked down by drunken rioters during a dance at the hall in November.