Today is Sunday, April 13, the 104th day of 2008. There are 262 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Sunday, April 13, the 104th day of 2008. There are 262 days left in the year. On this date in 1958, American pianist Van Cliburn, 23, wins the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

In 1742, Handel’s “Messiah” is first performed publicly, in Dublin, Ireland. In 1964, Sidney Poitier becomes the first black performer in a leading role to win an Academy Award, for “Lilies of the Field.” In 1965, 16-year-old Lawrence Wallace Bradford Jr. is appointed by New York Republican Jacob Javits to be the first black page of the U.S. Senate. In 1986, Pope John Paul II visits the Great Synagogue of Rome in the first recorded papal visit of its kind to a Jewish house of worship.

April 13, 1983: Joseph “Little Joey” Naples so wanted a rival, Joseph M. DeRose Jr., dead that he once offered to clean up the blood himself, a federal prosecutor says during the trial of Youngstown racketeer Peter V. Cascarelli.

After seven hours of deliberations, a Trumbull County jury finds Randy Fellows, 18, guilty of aggravated murder in the death of Niles police officer John Utlak.

April 13, 1968: Two men who argued with R.J. Short, owner of a North Jackson gun shop, return and beat him with a vacuum cleaner and flee with 25 rifles and guns.

Mrs. Miriam Staff Ullman, 67, president of the Monday Musical Club for 29 years and wife of Carl W. Ullman, president of the Dollar Savings & Trust Co., dies after suffering a heart attack at her home.

April 13, 1958: Ohio will have to pay its teachers better to do the job of education that the space age demands, Clingan Jackson, candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, tells the Youngstown University honorary education fraternity, Kappa Delta Pi.

A bookie spot at 107 W. Liberty St., Girard, hums with business on a Saturday afternoon, dozens of people casually strolling in and out to do business, just two blocks from the police station.

April 13, 1933: President Roosevelt proposes a $2 billion corporation to refinance home mortgages and put a brake on home foreclosures. Youngstown bankers generally express approval.

W.T. Holliday, president of the Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, orders all department heads in his company to cease doing business with bidders who maintain sweatshops or indulge in unreasonable wage or price cutting.