Today is Tuesday, April 22, the 113th day of 2008. There are 253 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, April 22, the 113th day of 2008. There are 253 days left in the year. On this date in 1889, the Oklahoma Land Rush begins at noon as thousands of homesteaders stake claims.

In 1509, Henry VIII becomes king of England following the death of his father, Henry the VII. In 1864, Congress authorizes the use of the phrase “In God We Trust” on coins. In 1938, 45 workers are killed in a coal mine explosion at Keen Mountain in Buchanan County, Va. In 1944, during World War II, U.S. forces begin invading Japanese-held New Guinea with amphibious landings at Hollandia and Aitape. In 1954, the publicly televised sessions of the Senate Army-Mc- Carthy hearings begin.

April 22, 1983: A plan to closely regulate the annual downtown Sharon Farmers Market and to force participants to join the Farmers Market Association has some city councilmen questioning the legality of the operation.

General Motors Corp. recalls 70 laid-off workers at the Packard Electric Division in Warren, leaving about 300 on furlough.

Youngstown Finance Department officials are meeting with Mayor George Vukovich to work out the mechanics of laying off employees should the federal government deny the city’s request that it be able to use jobs bill money to patch up the general fund.

April 22, 1968: Four teenagers who left a dance at St. Christine Church are injured when their automobile skidded off W. Newport Drive in Mill Creek Park and crashed into a tree.

A 4-year-old Detroit girl, Debra Dorteen, suffers a broken leg and mangled foot when her foot was caught beneath a power mower at the home of her grandparents in Canfield. Two other children were injured in separate lawn mower accidents over the weekend, prompting Charles A. Vimmerstedt, director of the Youngstown Safety Council, to remind mower owners to be careful.

April 22, 1958: Mahoning County Welfare Advisory Board is making a study of the Mahoning County Home and will recommend to Mahoning County commissioners whether to make improvements in the present building or erect a new structure.

Austintown Trustee Harvey Brandmiller and Constables James Hazlett and Edward Hoffman say they have received threats after a raid was conducted on a Glenwood Avenue home that was operating as a bookie joint.

Two thousand women begin making door-to-door visits as the “Cancer Crusade” opens in Youngstown.

April 22, 1933: Cyrus H. Neff, Canfield lumber dealer, is released under $20,000 bond while his attorneys fight for a new trial or an appeal from the verdict that found him guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his wife, Mary.

Firemen from Youngstown and New Castle form bucket brigades to battle a fire at the Villa Maria Convent at New Bedford, Pa. A garage is lost and a guest house and a building known as the Tea House were damaged.

Building permits taken out in Youngstown, including one for $5,000 to renovate the Renner Brewery, total $32,000 so far in April, $3,000 more than the entire month in 1932.