Today is Wednesday, April 25, the 115th day of 2007. There are 250 days left in the year. On this date in 1507, America gets its name from German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, who first uses the
Today is Wednesday, April 25, the 115th day of 2007. There are 250 days left in the year. On this date in 1507, America gets its name from German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, who first uses the term on a world map to refer to the huge mass of land in the Western Hemisphere, in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
In 1792, highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier becomes the first person under French law to be executed by the guillotine. In 1859, ground is broken for the Suez Canal. In 1898, the United States formally declares war on Spain. In 1915, during World War I, Allied soldiers invade the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war. In 1945, during World War II, U.S. and Soviet forces link up on the Elbe River, a meeting that dramatizes the collapse of Nazi Germany's defenses. In 1945, delegates from some 50 countries meet in San Francisco to organize the United Nations. In 1959, the St. Lawrence Seaway opens to shipping. In 1983, the Pioneer X spacecraft crosses Pluto's orbit, speeding on its endless voyage through the Milky Way.
April 25, 1982: In his weekly radio address, President Reagan lauds the Automobile Dealers Association of Eastern Ohio for its program in February that cut interest rates from 18 percent to 12.9 percent, resulting in a dramatic surge in car sales in the Youngstown area.
High interest rates, low grain prices and a host of other economic factors are taking a toll on farmers in northeast Ohio.
Congressman John M. Ashbrook, a nationally known conservative and leading candidate for the Ohio Republican Party's U.S. Senate nomination, collapses and dies of massive hemorrhaging in the stomach.
April 25, 1967: A group of East End merchants and city officials collide over the median strip being constructed down the center of East Front Street. The merchants said the strip will interfere with customers and deliveries.
A 26-year-old mother of seven children, four of them illegitimate, has herself sterilized to avoid going to jail on a charge of scalding one of her babies as punishment. Juvenile Court Referee Atty. Joseph R. Bryan made sterilization a provision of probation for the woman and her lawyer, Don L. Hanni, told Bryan the sterilization has already been done.
Charlene Marino, 21-year-old junior, is chosen 1967 Spring Weekend Queen at Youngstown University.
April 25, 1957: Racketeers and hoodlums are the winners as a majority of Youngstown City Council members shelf legislation providing imprisonment for convicted gamblers. Five councilmen had spoken in favor of the legislation a week earlier but two, including its sponsor, George Stowe, switched.
Robert W. Ramsdell, 51, former manager of the East Ohio Gas Co.'s Youngstown Division, is elected president and chief executive officer of the company.
Youngstown firemen have increased their demand for a wage increase to 15 percent, 3 percent higher than what Local 312 of the International Association of Fire Fighters proposed in September.
April 25, 1932: The Ohio Bell Telephone Co. leaves telephones for police and fire and one other phone in operation in Campbell City Hall, but shuts off five phones because of an unpaid 300 phone bill.
A sunken rock garden will be built in Mill Creek Park and 100 Japanese cherry trees will be planted on the shores of Lake Newport as a memorial to Mary Newport, an early Youngstown settler after whom the lake is named.
Thirty-four new city employees will be assigned to summer jobs in the city park department by Park Commissioner Lionel Evans. Mayor Mark Moore has approved which men will be hired and will work with Evans on where they will be assigned.