Today is Wednesday, April 19, the 109th day of 2006. There are 256 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, April 19, the 109th day of 2006. There are 256 days left in the year. On this date in 1775, the American Revolutionary War begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
In 1782, the Netherlands recognizes American independence. In 1893, the Oscar Wilde play "A Woman of No Importance" opens at the Haymarket Theatre in London. In 1933, the United States goes off the gold standard. In 1943, during World War II, tens of thousands of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto begin a valiant but futile battle against Nazi forces. In 1945, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway. In 1951, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, relieved of his Far East command by President Truman, bids farewell to Congress, quoting a line from a ballad: "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away." In 1975, India announces it has launched its first satellite, from the Soviet Union atop a Soviet rocket. In 1989, 47 sailors are killed when a gun turret explodes aboard the USS Iowa.
April 19, 1981: The Mahoning County Nursing Home has a $2 million deficit and the county commissioners have no ready means for making it up. The deficit began accumulating a few years after the home was opened in 1962, but had been gone unnoticed as part of the Welfare Department budget.
The Vukovich administration is ironing out details of establishing a distribution center for all purchases made by Youngstown city government.
Executives of the YWCA and the Battered Persons Center complain that it took more than two days for Youngstown police to rescue a woman and two small children from her estranged husband. The woman said her husband, a large man with access to weapons, would not allow her and her children to leave the house.
April 19, 1966: Proposals for housing the Mahoning County Welfare Department in the Hotel Pick-Ohio building are presented to the Welfare Advisory Board.
Water use hits a record high at the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District in 1965 at 32.5 million gallons a day.
A former Austintown Fitch High School football player, Marine Sgt. James E. Prommersberger, 21, is killed in action near Da Nang, Vietnam, as he was beginning his last 30-day stretch of combat duty.
April 19, 1956: The Navy is expected to pick a site for a proposed new multimillion-dollar air reserve base in northeast Ohio in a matter of weeks.
Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown says hopes are dimming for inclusion of the West Branch flood control project in the 1966 public works authorization bill.
James B. Reston, Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, suggests that if President Eisenhower asked Ohio Gov. Frank J. Lausche to cross party lines, the Ohio Democrat would be willing to replace Richard Nixon as vice president on Eisenhower's 1956 re-election ticket.
April 19, 1931: One of four thugs who strong-armed Tony Arcrero of 70 cents is shot by a Youngstown patrolman who responded to Arcrero's calls for help and fired at the four who were running away.
About 350 eastern Ohio Masons attend the annual reunion and inspection of Buechner Council, No. 107, Royal and Select Master Masons in Youngstown's Masonic Temple. Frank M. Justice, master of Buechner Council, presides over the session.
George Smith, an 18-year-old Negro accused of attacking a white girl, is taken from a Union City, Tenn., jail by a mob and lynched from a tree in the courthouse square as a crowd of hundreds throng the grounds. Sheriff J.D. Hubbs said he and two deputies did all they could to protect Smith, but they did not want to take his place.