Today is Wednesday, April 29, the 119th day of 2009. There are 246 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, April 29, the 119th day of 2009. 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. In 1901, Japanese Emperor Hirohito is born in Tokyo. In 1916, the Easter Rising in Dublin collapses as Irish nationalists surrender to British authorities. In 1946, 28 former Japanese officials go on trial in Tokyo as war criminals; seven end up being sentenced to death. In 1968, the counterculture musical “Hair” opens on Broadway following limited engagements off-Broadway. In 1974, President Richard M. Nixon announces he is releasing edited transcripts of some secretly made White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

April 29, 1984: Janelle Clark, an eighth grader at Real Life Christian Academy, wins the 51st annual Vindicator Spelling Bee, the first student from her school to do so.

Acid mine drainage into Meander Reservoir may be halted with the state-assisted removal of the now-abandoned Ellsworth Coal Tipple.

A 41-year-old Poland man is sentenced to life in prison plus 10 years after a Mahoning County jury found him guilty of two counts of statutory rape of girls 10 and 12 years old and a third charge of sexual assault.

April 29, 1969: Patrolman Geidner, president of Youngstown Lodge 28, Fraternal Order of Police, says the FOP has endorsed passage of the Youngstown school levy because “the best guarantee we have for the future of our children, of ourselves and the city of Youngstown is a strong basic educational program.”

The opening date of the $5.7 million Interstate 80-Route 11 interchange in Austintown, originally set for December, then for May, has been postponed indefinitely.

Jerry Knight, Youngstown planning administrator and former newsman, is named executive secretary of the Mahoning-Trumbull Council of Governments.

April 29, 1959: On the eve of negotiations for a new national steel contract, most steelworkers are opposed to having their union press for further wage increases, a poll by Samuel Lubell shows. Lubell says the steelworkers have come to see that industry increases fuel inflation, leaving them no farther ahead.

U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan’s Public Works subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee is preparing to hear testimony on federal allocation of funds for multimillion-dollar flood control projects in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys.

Donald B. Sawhill is elected secretary of Sawhill Tubular Products Inc. at the annual directors meeting.

April 29, 1934: Blowing bubbles through the spine into the skull to cure a headaches is described by Dr. Wilder Penfield of Montreal before 500 Ohio and Pennsylvania physicians attending the annual Post-graduate Day of the Mahoning County Medical Society.

The Independent American Magyar Reformed Church at 925 Mahoning Ave. protests the state liquor control commission’s action in granting a D-3 liquor license to a place operated by Michael Schettino at 1001 Mahoning Ave.

Roger Evans, 84, Civil War veteran and pioneer iron and steel worker in Youngstown, dies at his residence, 656 Elm St.