Today is Tuesday, April 29, the 120th day of 2008. There are 246 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, April 29, the 120th day of 2008. There are 246 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberate the Dachau concentration camp; the same day, Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun and designates Adm. Karl Doenitz president.

In 1429, Joan of Arc enters the besieged city of Orleans to lead a French victory over the English. In 1798, Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” is rehearsed in Vienna, Austria, before an invited audience. In 1861, Maryland’s House of Delegates votes against seceding from the Union.

April 29, 1983: Youngstown City Council votes to eliminate the rank of lieutenant and three of eight captaincies. FOP President Ronald Skowron says the city is playing into the hands of organized crime and Police Chief John Lynch says morale will suffer among sergeants and patrolmen who see reduced opportunities for advancement.

Mahoning County’s Blue Ribbon Committee, armed with input from six public hearings, will begin reevaluating the charter form of government it has proposed for the county.

April 29, 1968: The Boardman High School Speech team wins the Ohio State Speech League sweepstakes trophy. Team member Laura Pilz won the state title in girls extemporaneous.

Three men with soot-smeared faces rob the Garland Sparkle Market in the McGuffey Plaza, escaping with more than $1,000 as an employee fires several shots at them.

President Lyndon Johnson sends three presidential pens to Mrs. Lavenia Lawrence of Cantwell Street, Youngstown. One for her son in the Army, one for her son in the Air Force and one for a son soon to enter the Navy.

April 29, 1958: The trial of a former East Liverpool special policeman accused of burglary is called off because one of his lawyers, S.S. Fekett of Youngstown, was seen with his arm around the shoulders of a woman juror.

New delays in Youngstown’s arterial highway program appear likely as the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads fails to support the multimillion dollar project.

Despite rain, several hundred people march in a parade in Campbell to dedicate the city’s new million-dollar sewage treatment plant, the first along the Mahoning River to be completed under Ohio’s Water Pollution Control Board program.

April 29, 1933: Ralph “Red” Atterholt and Tony Rotunno die in Ohio’s electric chair for the slaying of Scott Vasbinder, Newton Falls marshal. It took three applications of current and nine minutes before Rotunno was declared dead.

Leonard T. Skeggs, former general secretary of the Youngstown YMCA on an indefinite leave of absence, is reported dying in a Tampa, Fla., hospital after shooting himself twice near his heart in the office of a Tampa psychiatrist.

Judge David Jenkins issues a temporary injunction barring Mayor Mark Moore from shutting down a walkathon organized by the VFW. Jenkins says the contestants are foolish, but police do not have the authority to stop the marathon.