Today is Sunday, April 23, the 113th day of 2006. There are 252 days left in the year. On this date in 1564, is believed to be the birth date of English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare; he died

Today is Sunday, April 23, the 113th day of 2006. There are 252 days left in the year. On this date in 1564, is believed to be the birth date of English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare; he died 52 years later, also on April 23.
In 1789, President-elect Washington and his wife move into the first executive mansion, the Franklin House, in New York. In 1791, the 15th president of the United States, James Buchanan, is born in Franklin County, Pa. In 1940, about 200 people die in a dance hall fire in Natchez, Miss. In 1954, Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hits the first of his record 755 major-league home runs, in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. (The Braves win, 7-5.) In 1969, Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. (The sentence is later reduced to life imprisonment.) In 1998, James Earl Ray, who'd confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and then insisted he'd been framed, dies at a Nashville, Tenn., hospital at age 70.
April 23, 1981: U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams, R-19th, tells a group of Mahoning Valley teachers to expect the 92nd Congress to pass some type of tuition tax credit legislation covering elementary, secondary and college education.
The Wilmington Area School Board proposes to close East Lawrence Elementary School and organized opposition to the proposal is building.
April 23, 1966: The object in the sky that a deputy sheriff from Ravenna said he and his partner chased for an hour and a half probably was the planet Venus, says the Air Force.
Some 300 college students nearing graduation receive orders from the three Mahoning County draft boards to report in May for pre-induction physical examinations. They are in the first student-call in Ohio in many years.
April 23, 1956: A landmark, the 90-year-old Porter home on East State St. in Sharon, next to the new Knights of Columbus Hall, is being razed. The original owners, T.J. Porter, was a pioneer in Sharon's growth.
Sidney Moyer, president of the Moyer Co. and a longtime leader in Youngstown civic affairs, receives the Humanitarian award of Youngstown Aerie 213, Fraternal Order of Eagles.
April 23, 1931: Miss Esther Norlund, a Lutheran missionary formerly of Youngstown, is released by bandits in China who had kidnapped her and two other missionaries. A Swedish woman was also released, but there was no word on the fate of a Swedish minister, who had also been kidnaped a week earlier.
Youngstown is known for steel, art, medical science, cunning lawyers and petty women; little known is that the city is home to 60 published writers in many different fields. A list of local authors was compiled by the Youngstown Public Library.
Ernest W. Vickers, naturalist at Mill Creek Park, says Youngstown has become a winter resort for a number of Canadian feathered friends, including the winter wren, the brown creeper, the fox sparrow, the breasted nut hatch and the downy woodpecker.
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