Today is Tuesday, April 28, the 118th day of 2009. There are 247 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, April 28, the 118th day of 2009. There are 247 days left in the year. On this date in 1789, there is a mutiny on HMS Bounty as the crew of the British ship sets Capt. William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. (Bligh and most of the men with him manage to reach Timor in 47 days.)

In 1758, the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, is born in Westmoreland County, Va. In 1788, Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1918, Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the archduke’s wife, Sophie, dies in prison of tuberculosis. In 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are executed by Italian partisans as they attempt to flee the country. In 1952, war with Japan officially ends as a treaty signed in San Francisco the year before takes effect. In 1958, the United States conducts the first of 35 nuclear test explosions in the Pacific Proving Ground as part of Operation Hardtack I. Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, begin a goodwill tour of Latin America that is marred by hostile mobs in Lima, Peru, and Caracas, Venezuela.

April 28, 1984: General Motors Corp. reports that it made a record $1.6 billion in the first quarter, giving U.S. automakers their best start ever. The four U.S.-based car companies posted combined profits of $3.2 billion, more than half of the $6.1 billion they earned in all of 1983.

Phi Kappa Tau took first place among fraternities at the 32nd annual Youngstown State University Greek Sing and Phi Mu won among the sororities. Dinah Suhey was named outstanding Greek woman of the year and Russell Brodnan was named outstanding Greek man of the year.

Niles Councilman Richard Marino, D-1st, says he received a telephone death threat after making a declaration of war against gambling in the city.

April 28, 1969: Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes denies a Life magazine report that he has been dipping into campaign funds for years to cover personal expenses.

The Grecian Village restaurant at 128 W. Boardman St. is gutted by a fire of undetermined origin.

John J. Angelo, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 377, says the union is backing passage of the Youngstown City Schools 12-mill levy because public school students must be able to compete for jobs when they become men and women.

April 28, 1959: Mahoning County Engineer Samuel Gould Jr. responds to a charge of payroll padding by saying he put additional workers on the county payroll the first quarter of the year so men on relief would have money to pay delinquent utility bills and keep their homes operating.

Steel engineers from India will continue to come to Youngstown for training at Youngstown University and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. through 1962 under the Indian Steel Training and Education Program.

Representatives of Retail Clerks Union Local 298 picket all three Charles Livingston & Sons stores over the firing of several employees.

April 28, 1934: Charles W. Laase of Girard wins the Carnegie Hero Medal and a $500 cash award for bravery in attempting to save his friend, Alfred Gutlipano, 21, from drowning in the Mahoning River at Sandy Bottom.

Five hundred medical men, including 182 from out of town, open the Mahoning County Medical Society’s seventh annual post-graduate assembly at the Hotel Ohio.

A general 10 percent cut in the budgets of all county departments is ordered by the county commissioners and is met at once by opposition, especially from Auditor John J. Arnold, who hold the cut is not needed.

Mrs. Warren P. Williams Sr. announces her candidacy for the nomination for state representative on the Republican ticket. She has long been active in politics and was one of the women leaders in Herbert Hoover’s 1928 campaign.