Today is Good Friday, April 10, the 100th day of 2009. There are 265 days left in the year. On this

Today is Good Friday, April 10, the 100th day of 2009. 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 George 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 1957, Egypt reopens the Suez Canal to all shipping traffic. (The canal had been closed due to wreckage resulting from the Suez Crisis.)

April 10, 1984: The Austintown Board of Education approves a reduction in force of eight teachers, the fewest in the district in recent years.

The United States League of Savings Institutions reveals that the Youngstown-Warren area had the least expensive housing in the country in 1983. The median home price in the Youngstown-Warren Metropolitan Area was $39,500.

Shawn Burke and Christina Diaz are winners of the Youngstown Park and Recreation Department Easter egg hunt in Wick Park.

April 10, 1969: The New Castle Area School Board votes 7-1 to table a motion by Director Joseph Chill to revive prayer and Bible reading in the schools on a voluntary basis.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service files six notices of federal tax liens totaling $1.2 million on unpaid taxes against the estate of slain Youngstown racketeer Vincent DiNiro.

Victor Posner, board chairman of NVF Corp., denies a rumor that George Perrault Jr. might be relieved of the $100,000 a year presidency of Sharon Steel Corp.

The proposed Grand River Reservoir in Ashtabula County is described as the most comprehensive regional water development project ever proposed for Ohio during a public hearing by Army engineers at Packard Music Hall in Warren.

April 10, 1959: Gov. Michael DiSalle’s warning on gambling notwithstanding, Campbell lives up to its reputation of the tawdry Las Vegas on the Mahoning, with a Vindicator reporter finding all the usual vice operating in wide-open fashion.

Twelve big steel companies ask the United Steelworkers of America to continue present wages and benefits for a year.

A return to downtown business centers is predicted by the president of the Ohio Real Estate Board speaking at a meeting of Youngstown Realtors in the Mural Building.

April 10, 1934: The state relief commission gives Mahoning County’s relief program a five-day reprieve, averting a midnight shutdown of all relief services in a dispute between Gov. George White and Mahoning County commissioners over a lack of local financial support for the program.

Youngstown Traffic Commissioner Carl Olson says the traffic department will launch a campaign against all illegal parking in downtown streets.

Hundreds of taxpayers file through the county treasurer’s office to pay their taxes before the deadline. More than $287,000 was collected in one day.