Today is Wednesday, April 16, the 107th day of 2008. There are 259 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, April 16, the 107th day of 2008. There are 259 days left in the year. On this date in 2007, in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, student Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech before taking his own life.

In 1789, President-elect Washington leaves Mount Vernon, Va., for his inauguration in New York. In 1862, President Lincoln signs a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. In 1879, Saint Bernadette, who’d described seeing visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, dies in Nevers, France. In 1912, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel. In 1935, the radio comedy program “Fibber McGee and Molly” premieres on the NBC Blue Network. In 1947, the French ship Grandcamp blows up at the harbor in Texas City, Texas; another ship, the High Flyer, explodes the following day. The blasts and resulting fires kill nearly 600 people. In 1947, financier and presidential confidant Bernard Baruch says in a speech at the South Carolina statehouse: “Let us not be deceived — we are today in the midst of a cold war.” In 1972, Apollo 16 blasts off on a voyage to the moon. In 1996, Britain’s Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, the Duchess of York, announce they are in the process of getting a divorce.

April 16, 1983: A federal jury in Cleveland takes only two hours to find Youngstown mob informer Peter Cascarelli guilty of firearms and conspiracy violations

The Ohio Board of Regents recommends phasing out three Ohio medical schools and adjusting enrollment at three others because the state’s seven medical schools are turning out a costly oversupply of physicians. The three schools marked for elimination are the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Wright State and Ohio University.

Stephen T. Masters asks the U.S. Supreme Court to review his conviction in the 1979 murder of his wife Jodi. He contends the evidence gathered at his South Avenue home was inadmissible because the search warrant was issued without probable cause.

April 16, 1968: Concerted efforts by three county officials have reduced Mahoning County’s tax delinquency by $596,000 to bring the total delinquency to a four-year-low of $4.3 million.

An out-of-control motorcycle at Motorcycle Hill in Negley plunges through a snow fence into a line of spectators, injuring two woman and a 21‚Ñ2-year-old child.

John M. Morris, president of the A.G. Sharp Lumber Co. is honored as Boss of the Year by the Mill Creek Chapter of the American Business Women’s Association.

April 16, 1958: Five dangerous prisoners escape from the Summit County jail in Akron. One is shot dead by police, another surrenders a few blocks away.

Members of Congress are up in arms over President Eisenhower’s veto of $1.6 billion public works bill, but there seems little likelihood that proponents have the votes for an override. The bill includes $12 million for a dam on the West Branch of the Mahoning.

The Ohio Selective Service Board issues orders for the May induction call for 869 men, with 24 from Mahoning County, 14 from Trumbull and 11 from Columbiana.

April 16, 1933: Mahoning County Treasurer Warren A. Steel believes that a temporary suspension of delinquency charges would bring payment of a substantial amount of $7 million in taxes and special assessments owed the county.

Youngstown Mayor Mark E. Moore orders all policemen when in uniform to refrain from drinking alcoholic beverages.

The Richards Milling Co. of Cortland has grown into Trumbull County’s largest feed mill, employing 35 men and doing $2 million a year in business.