Today is Monday, April 24, the 114th day of 2006. There are 251 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Monday, April 24, the 114th day of 2006. There are 251 days left in the year. On this date in 1916, some 1,600 Irish nationalists launch the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin. (The rising is put down by British forces several days later.)
In 1800, Congress approves a bill establishing the Library of Congress. In 1877, federal troops are ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North's post-Civil War rule in the South. In 1898, Spain declares war on the United States after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba. In 1915, the Ottoman Turkish Empire begins the brutal mass deportation of Armenians during World War I. In 1968, leftist students at Columbia University in New York begin a weeklong occupation of several campus buildings. In 1970, the People's Republic of China launches its first satellite, which keeps transmitting a song, "The East is Red." In 1980, the United States launches an abortive attempt to free the American hostages in Iran, a mission that results in the deaths of eight U.S. servicemen.
April 24, 1981: The Niles Board of Education cuts 18 teaching positions and five nonteaching positions in an effort to reduce staff to state minimums so that the district will qualify for a $357,000 loan needed to balance the 1981 budget.
Drug trafficking charges are pending against a Newton Township couple arrested after peddling 2,000 Quaaludes to undercover police.
April 24, 1966: E.M. "Pete" Estes vice president of General Motors and general manager of the Chevrolet Motor Division, will be on hand when the first car rolls of the assembly line at the new General Motors plant in Lordstown.
Respect the human rights of others and elect public officials who will stand for civil rights in the broadest sense, a prominent Negro educator, Dr. Wade Wilson of Pennsylvania, tells 200 people attending the third annual dinner of Price Memorial AME Zion Church.
April 24, 1956: Youngstown area residents wake up to a half inch of wet snow on the ground.
Austintown Township Trustees approve a zone change that will permit the construction of a multimillion-dollar shopping center on Mahoning Avenue, west of Fitch High School.
Jon Naberezny, head of the art department at Youngstown University, is organizing and assembling a national exhibition of prints that will be on display at the Butler Institute of American Art in May.
April 24, 1931: Charges that Ernest N. Nemenyi presented a false bill to the Mahoning County Board of Elections are thrown out in a unanimous decision by the Court of Appeals.
Mrs. Emanuel Hartzell, long a resident of Youngstown and mother of several prominent city men and women, dies suddenly at the home of a daughter on Lora Ave.
Rayen School and the Youngstown Hospital receive bequests of $25,000 each from the estate of the late James Parmelee, former Youngstown resident who died in Washington, D.C.