Today is Monday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2009. There are 262 days left in the year. On this date

April 13, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Monday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2009. There are 262 days left in the year. On this date in 1743, the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, is born in Shadwell, Va.

In 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is incorporated in New York. (The original museum opens in 1872.) In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial. In 1958, American pianist Van Cliburn, 23, wins the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. In 1964, Sidney Poitier becomes the first black performer in a leading role to win an Academy Award, for “Lilies of the Field.” In 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, is crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen bursts. (The astronauts manage to return safely.) 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. In 1992, the Great Chicago Flood takes place as the city’s century-old tunnel system and adjacent basements fill with water from the Chicago River.

April 13, 1984: The General Services Administration announces that construction will begin by 1986 on a federal building in downtown Youngstown, but the GSA and U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams, R-17tth, are still at odds over the size of the structure. GSA is planning a $5 million project; Williams is pushing for a building three times larger and twice as expensive.

The policy board of the Eastgate Development and Transportation Agency is flexing its political muscle in an attempt to collect five years of past dues owed by Girard. The board tables the city’s request for $21,500 in federal funds for a sewerage project.

GF Corp. appears to be on the comeback road, posting a first-quarter profit of $725,000 on sales of $44.8 million . It is the first time in more than 10 years that the company showed a first-quarter profit of more than $60,000.

April 13, 1969: Silver Stars are awarded for gallantry in action under enemy fire to two Youngstown district men serving in Vietnam, Spec. 4 Bruce J. Williams of North Jackson and Spec. 4 Robert G. Jackson of Lisbon.

Max Shagrin, noted theatrical figure in Youngstown and California, dies at his home in Hollywood. He and his twin brother, Joe, brought great entertainment to Youngstown for many years.

April 13, 1959: Archbishop Francis P. Keough of Baltimore and Archbishop Karl J. Alter of Cincinnati, join Youngstown Bishop Emmet M. Walsh for the dedication of St. Columba Cathedral.

Ohio communities that want industry to move in must move gambling out, says Gov. Michael DiSalle.

Robert Hagan, contractor and popular after-dinner speaker, will address the annual Youngstown University alumni dinner at the Mahoning County Club.

April 13, 1934: The Rev. Joseph P. Hurley, former assistant at St. Columba Church, is named a domestic prelate of Pope Pius XI, with the title of monsignor. He is en route to the United States from Tokyo, where he continued to serve for a year after Archbishop Edward Mooney of Youngstown left Japan.

The Mahoning County scholarship contest scheduled for Canfield is postponed after it is learned that some schools in the county had access to the tests beforehand, Supt. C.B. Rayburn says.