Years Ago

April 1, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, April 1, the 91st day of 2010. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fools’ Day.

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1853: Cincinnati, Ohio, establishes a fire department made up of paid city employees.

1945: American forces launch the amphibious invasion of Okinawa during World War II.

1946: Tidal waves strike the Hawaiian islands, resulting in more than 170 deaths.

1960: The first true weather satellite, TIROS-1, is launched from Cape Canaveral. (TIROS stood for “Television Infrared Observation Satellite.”)

1963: Most of New York City’s daily newspapers resume publishing after settlement is reached in a 114-day strike.

1970: President Richard M. Nixon signs a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and television, to take effect after Jan. 1, 1971.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: The General Motors Corp. is “going undercover” to make its decision on where to built the Saturn Corp. plant.

Public Citizen, the Ralph Nader watchdog group, says windmills have become one of the hottest tax shelters around and are likely to cost the Treasury $1 billion over five years.

1970: Over protests of elected officials, Trumbull County commissioners approve a 1970 budget of $3.7 million, reflecting cuts of 20 to 25 percent in most departments.

Struthers police believe Mary Lee Wright, 22, who disappeared March 19, was kidnapped and may have been slain.

1960: An armed bandit escapes with several hundred dollars from the Household Finance Co. office at 145 W. Federal Street after forcing four employees into a closet.

Vandals burn about 300 copies of the Youngstown University Jambar. Editor David Poole said he received a phone call suggesting that the action was taken in opposition to the paper’s recent editorials opposing censorship.

1935: Baker Irving Schwebel swears out a charge of malicious destruction of property against Samuel J. Orr, business agent for the truck drivers union, accusing him of being involved in the overturn of two Schwebel trucks.

Lucius B. McKelvey receives word that his sister, the Marquise de Castellane, nee Esther Letitia McKelvey, has died in Paris and will be buried in southern France. She had lived abroad for many years, but returned often to Youngstown on visits.