Today is Thursday, April 10, the 101st day of 2008. There are 265 days left in the year. On this

Today is Thursday, April 10, the 101st day of 2008. There are 265 days left in the year. On this date in 1912, the RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.

In 1790, President Washington signs into law the first United States Patent Act. In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is incorporated. In 1925, the novel “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is first published. In 1932, German president Paul Von Hindenburg is re-elected in a runoff, with Adolf Hitler coming in second. In 1963, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher sinks during deep-diving tests off Cape Cod, Mass., in a disaster that claims 129 lives. In 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare. In 1992, comedian Sam Kinison, 38, is killed in a car crash outside Needles, Calif.

April 10, 1983: Youngstown Airport manager Fred DeLuca says airline passenger traffic is picking up and he sees chances for important improvements in the airport’s pattern of service.

About 250 truck drivers nationwide, including some from the Youngstown area, thought they were buying their trucks through a lease agreement with a Tampa, Fla., company, but the company defaulted on the payments and the trucks were repossessed.

The Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities is planning to phase out most of its 13 developmental centers, including the Youngstown Developmental Center in Austintown.

April 10, 1968: More than 600 National Guardsmen continue to patrol Youngstown, and 40 arrests are made as police attempt to keep a lid on the city.

Management of the Boardman Plaza Theater, formerly operated by Broumas Theaters Inc., is taken over by Youngstown Enterprises Inc,, which controls five drive-ins in the Youngstown area.

April 10, 1958: Austintown Constables James Hazlett, Clayton Heck and Edgar Hoffman conduct a raid on a modest home on Lexington Place in Wickliffe, where they find equipment indicating that a horse betting and numbers operation was being run out of the basement.

Fifth Ward Councilman Ray T. Davis withdraws his proposal that Youngstown switch to curbside garbage collection, apologizing to his constituents “for the extreme anxiety I may have caused to certain individuals.

For the first time in 27 weeks, the number of Ohio claimants for continuing jobless benefits drops, the Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation reports. But they rose slightly in the Youngstown area.

April 10, 1933: Shipments of the old standby, Milwaukee Schlitz and Pabst beer, are expected to roll into Youngstown’s rail yards sometime within the week, ending the city’s draught after the initial rush on new beer exhausted the city’s supply.

Alice Gladden, librarian at the Salem Public Library, announces that seed catalogs for 1933 have arrived and can be signed out for a seven-day period.