Today is Sunday, April 30, the 120th day of 2006. There are 245 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Sunday, April 30, the 120th day of 2006. There are 245 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, as Russian troops approach his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.
In 1789, George Washington takes office in New York as the first president of the United States. In 1803, the United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for 60 million francs, the equivalent of about (U.S.) $15 million. In 1812, Louisiana becomes the 18th state of the Union. In 1900, engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad dies in a wreck near Vaughan, Miss., after staying at the controls in an effort to save the passengers. In 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St. Louis. In 1939, the New York World's Fair officially opens. In 1945, "Arthur Godfrey Time" makes its debut on the CBS radio network. In 1970, President Nixon announces the U.S. is sending troops into Cambodia, an action that sparks widespread protest. In 1973, President Nixon announces the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean. In 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon falls to Communist forces.
April 30, 1981: The Mahoning County Welfare Department opens three additional locations to handle the sharp increase in applications for the food stamp program.
Youngstown City Council and the Vukovich administration have less than a week to settle their disagreements over the sale of city-owned land on Federal Street as the site of a $1.5 million office building for Mosure and Syrakis Co. and Atty. Carmen Policy.
General Motors announces that after a decade spent developing air bags it is discontinuing the effort because, as a spokesman states, "we could hardly give them away."
April 30, 1966: A new multi-million dollar office building for the Sharon Steel Corp. may be built in northern Hubbard Township, overlooking the Shenango Valley. The property, owned by Elizabeth Corll Adams, is bounded by Route 62 and Thomas Road
Penny Price, a junior in the School of Education, is crowned queen of the 1966 Spring Weekend of Youngstown University in the Idora Park Ballroom.
A member of a prominent Boardman construction family, Thomas S. O'Horo, 29, is killed when his car leaves the road and strikes a tree off Route 7 just south of the Mahoning County line.
April 30, 1956: A beer bottle thrown from a 10th floor window of the Hotel Pick-Ohio by revelers following the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner strikes a parked car in S. Hazel Street.
Stainless steel is becoming so popular for showy large office buildings that orders are swamping the No. 1 manufacturer in the field, the Truscon Steel Division of Republic Steel Corp.
The president of Standard Oil Co. predicts that demand for petroleum products will increase 4 to 5 percent in 1956 over the previous year. The firm showed a net profit of $23 million in 1955 and plans to spend $35 million in 1957 to build a refinery near Toledo that could process 60,000 barrels of crude a day.
Overall, major crime in Youngstown shows a decrease in 1955 from 1954, although murder, aggravated assault and auto theft increased.
April 30, 1931: James R. McAleer, 66, of the Parkway Tower, Youngstown, former owner of the Boston Red Sox and one of the leading baseball men in the United States, dies at his home. He leaves two brothers, J.C. McAleer of Austintown and Owen McAleer, former mayor of Los Angeles.
The West Point coal field, an area of 2,800 acres 10 miles north of East Liverpool, which once was valued at $1 million, will be abandoned because of a decision by the Youngstown & amp; Ohio River Railroad to junk its 38-mile line between East Liverpool and Salem.