Years Ago

April 10, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, April 10, the 100th day of 2010. There are 265 days left in the year.

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1866: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is incorporated.

1912: The RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.

1932: German president Paul Von Hindenburg is re-elected in a runoff, with Adolf Hitler coming in second.

1963: The nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher sinks during deep-diving tests off Cape Cod, Mass., in a disaster that claims 129 lives.

1972: The United States and the Soviet Union joined some 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare.

1998: The Northern Ireland peace talks conclude as negotiators reach a landmark settlement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks.

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1985: The city and Youngstown thermal Corp. Are discussing a $1 million loan to replace decaying steam pipes in the downtown area.

Robert Carano, a former WFMJ-TV news director, is named executive director of the Trumbull County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

1970: A sparsely populated plot in the Windham-Warren area or a Lake Erie island near Cleveland are declared “feasible and approximately equal” for development of a huge supersonic airport serving 16 Northeast Ohio counties.

An architect’s rendering shows a 17-story office building and motor inn that features dramatically flaring steel columns proposed for Central Square on the site of the old Palace Theater. The building would be built by Dale-Howe Corp. and would cost $17.5 million.

1960: A McGuffey Heights steelworker, Claude Washington, 30, dies when an overheated coal furnace sparks a fire at his home at 1936 Roche Avenue.

Recent declines in steel buying and production have clipped Youngstown district payrolls by an estimated $1.5 million per week.

A jury in Wilkes Barre, Pa., takes three hours to acquit two coal company officials of manslaughter charges in the flooding of a Knox Coal Co. Mine in which 12 miners died.

1935: Smith Township voters in Southern Mahoning County vote to allow a state liquor store, but reject the establishment of taverns.

U.S. Rep. John Cooper is leading a drive to secure funds for a Mahoning-Beaver rivers canal from the $4.8 billion Works Relief Program approved by the House.