Years Ago

April 13, 2010 at 12:16a.m.

Today is Thursday, April 8, the 98th day of 2010. There are 267 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1913: The 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for direct popular election of United States senators (as opposed to appointment by state legislatures), is ratified.

1952: President Harry S. Truman seizes the steel industry to avert a nationwide strike. (The U.S. Supreme Court later rules that Truman had overstepped his authority.)

1970: The Senate rejects President Richard M. Nixon’s nomination of G. Harold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court.

1974: Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth’s record.

1990: Ryan White, the teenage AIDS patient whose battle for acceptance gained national attention, dies in Indianapolis at age 18.

1994: Kurt Cobain, singer and guitarist for the gurunge band Nirvana is fourd dead in Seatttle from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 27.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: Mahoning County will keep its U.S. Immigration Service office, but Trumbull County residents will have to go to Cleveland to fill out naturalization petitions and for testing and interviews.

Mahoning County Republican Party Chairman Dr. William C. Binning says Youngstown elections are out of date and he is pushing for a four-year mayoral term and nonpartisan mayoral elections.

1970: Fewer than 100 people attend a public hearing on the proposed half-percent sales tax, enactment of which was initiated by Trumbull County commissioners Robert Hagan and Lamar Young. Five spoke against it.

A 6 percent increase in rates paid by Youngstown and Niles for wholesale water from Meander Reservoir is asked by directors of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.

1960: East Ohio Gas Co. has begun using electronic computing machines to prepare bills for its 800,000 residential customers.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol adds 35 new graduates from its academy to its ranks, bringing the force to a record high of 758. Among the graduates are five local men, R.J. Hornyak, J.L. Mersman, D.R. Woomer, W.T. McIntosh and R.D. Shingleton.

Elton Beard of New Middletown gives a report to his local Rotary Club on the trip he and his wife made by rented car through Morocco. They left Agadir only thee days before an earthquake hit killing thousands.

1935: Three hundred Girard pupils march safely out of North Avenue School after a fire breaks out on the third floor. Youngstown firemen help extinguish the blaze, which heavily damaged the roof.