Today is Tuesday, April 21, the 111th day of 2009. There are 254 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, April 21, the 111th day of 2009. There are 254 days left in the year. On this date in 1509, England’s King Henry VII dies; he is succeeded by his 17-year-old son, Henry VIII.

In 1649, the Maryland Toleration Act, which provides for freedom of worship for all Christians, is passed by the Maryland Assembly. In 1789, John Adams is sworn in as the first vice president of the United States.In 1816, Charlotte Bronte, author of “Jane Eyre,” is born in Thornton, England. In 1836, an army of Texans led by Sam Houston defeats the Mexicans at San Jacinto, assuring Texas independence. In 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, dies in Redding, Conn., at age 74. In 1918, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the “Red Baron,” is killed in action during World War I. In 1955, the Jerome Lawrence-Robert Lee play “Inherit the Wind,” inspired by the Scopes trial of 1925, opens at the National Theatre in New York. In 1960, Brazil inaugurates its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro. In 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explore the surface of the moon.

April 21, 1984: About 120 employees stand to lose their jobs with a decision by Penn Traffic Co. to close three Bi-Lo markets in Youngstown, on Midlothian Boulevard and Belmont and Mahoning avenues.

Chrysler Corp. says it earned a record $705 million the first quarter of 1984, exceeding the No. 3 U.S. automaker’s performance for all of 1983.

Speaking to students at Youngstown State University, James A. Traficant Jr., candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 17th District, says he uses a common sense approach to most things and would continue to do so in Washington.

Canfield Fire Chief Robert Tieche temporarily loses most of his senior officers in a dispute over the city’s lack of insurance coverage for the officers while they are driving their own vehicles to answer a call.

April 21, 1969: The G.M. McKelvey Co. of Youngstown reaches an agreement in principle to be merged into the Higbee Co. of Cleveland.

A 17-year-old high school senior and a 22-year-old Army veteran who were going steady are asphyxiated in a car parked in Austintown near Interstate 11. Coroner’s investigator Arman Casanta said death was due to carbon monoxide from a defective tailpipe or muffler.

President Richard Nixon names U.S. Rep. Donald Rumsfeld, an Illinois Republican, to head the administration’s antipoverty program.

April 21, 1959: Mrs. Pauline Zareva, 68, of Youngstown is killed when a Greyhound bus overturns on rain-slicked U.S. Route 66 about 25 miles west of Albuquerque, N.M.

New cars registered in Youngstown from April 6 to April 18 totaled 634, an increase of 268 percent over the corresponding period in 1958, says Clifford Bolander, national advertising manager of The Vindicator.

Raymond J. Wean Sr. is elected chairman of the board of the McKay Machine Co. Wean is also president and chairman of the board of the Wean Engineering Co. of Warren.

April 21, 1934: Twenty-two city firemen are injured or suffer from smoke while fighting a stubborn fire in the Hartenstein Building, 240-244 W. Boardman Street. Six of the firemen were treated at hospitals, the others at fire stations.

About 100 members and 20 guests attend the inaugural banquet of Youngstown’s Junior Chamber of Commerce. Joseph Froggett, former local newspaper man who works for the Daily Metal Trade, advises them to pick their battles rather than attempt to “reform everybody and everything instantly.”

Youngstown’s Dollar Savings & Trust Co. and City Trust and Savings Bank release all restricted deposits, amounting to $14 million to about 18,400 depositors.

Youngstown gets only snow flurries, but some outlying areas are hit with a snow storm. At Vienna, 21‚Ñ2 inches is on the ground.