Today is Friday, April 28, the 118th day of 2006. There are 247 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Friday, April 28, the 118th day of 2006. There are 247 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are executed by Italian partisans as they attempt to flee the country.
In 1758, the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, is born in Westmoreland County, Va. In 1788, Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1789, there is a mutiny on HMS Bounty as the crew of the British ship sets Capt. William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. In 1947, a six-man expedition sails from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey to Polynesia. In 1952, war with Japan officially ends as a treaty that had been signed by the United States and 47 other nations takes effect. In 1958, Vice President Nixon and his wife, Pat, begin a goodwill tour of Latin America that is marred by hostile mobs in Lima, Peru, and Caracas, Venezuela.
April 28, 1981: Despite a 15 percent unemployment rate hanging over the Mahoning Valley, jobs in skilled trades are unfilled because of a lack of qualified candidates.
Mahlon Boone, supervisor of Mosquito Creek Wildlife Area, reports that an eaglet has been hatched high in a maple tree in the Trumbull County reserve, marking the first time in at least 20 years that an eagle has been born in northeastern Ohio.
April 28, 1966: A sparkling four-door Chevrolet Impala is driven through a huge Number 1 at General Motors Corp.'s new Chevrolet and Fisher Body facility at Lordstown, signaling the opening of a new era for the Youngstown district.
John B. Kirkwood of Boardman, a Cardinal Mooney High senior, is the sole Youngstown District winner in the National Merit Scholarship Corp. program.
April 28, 1956: A scheduled gang fight between Boardman and North Lima high school boys is averted by police roadblocks, but splinter groups from the Boardman gang were later ejected from the Newport Theater and started several minor scuffles on the city's South Side.
Funeral director Michael J. Kirila is installed grand knight of the Struthers Knights of Columbus Council 4224 at Sts. Peter and Paul Church.
April 28, 1931: Systematic reforestation of the border lands surrounding the Meander Reservoir begin, says W.C. Dittoe, chief engineer of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District, with the planting of the first of 12,000 seedlings. A nursery of 100,000 seedlings will be established at the Anderson farm for future use.
Cyrus Eaton and three other directors representing the dissenting group of stockholders in the proposed Bethlehem Steel-Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. merger are re-elected to the board of directors of the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.