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

Today is Tuesday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2010. There are 262 days left in the year.

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1598: King Henry IV of France endorses the Edict of Nantes, which grants rights to the Protestant Huguenots. The edict is abrogated in 1685 by King Louis XIV, who declares France entirely Catholic again.

1742: Handel’s “Messiah” is first performed publicly, in Dublin, Ireland.

1860: The Pony Express completes its inaugural run from St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacramento, Calif., in 10 days.

1870: The Metropolitan Museum of Art is incorporated in New York. The original museum opens in 1872.

1958: American Van Cliburn, 23, wins the first International Tchaikovsky Competition for piano in Moscow; Russian Valery Klimov wins the violin competition.

1970: Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, is crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen bursts. The astronauts manage to return safely.

1986: Pope John Paul II visits the Great Synagogue of Rome in the first recorded papal visit to a Jewish house of worship.

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1985: Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro says he will use all available legal avenues to overturn a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court order forbidding the city and Mahoning County authorities from seizing a local vendor’s electronic poker machines.

The Rev. Edward Noga, associate pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Austintown, is appointed pastor of St. Patrick Church, 1410 Oak Hill Ave.

Youngstown City Council votes 6-1 to authorize the board of control to break the city’s 20-year pact with Developer Richard Mills for operation of the city parking deck.

The Mahoning County prosecutor will look into what legal action can be taken to recoup unpaid dues by several communities to the Eastgate Development and Transportation Agency. The highest amount, $29,250, is owed by Girard.

1970: Bill Nelson, star quarterback of the Cleveland Browns, is the guest speaker at the Cardinal Mooney High All-Sports banquet.

Former Astronaut John Glenn speaks at a fund-raising dinner of state Sen. Charles J. Carney attended by 500 people at Cherry’s Restaurant in Eastwood Mall. Carney is running for the congressional seat being vacated by Michael J. Kirwan.

A 19-year-old Oak Hill Avenue woman jumped to safety from her second floor bedroom after a man broke into the house and chased her into the bedroom, where he scuffled with her and kicked her. A 20-year-old man was arrested by police nearby within minutes of the police call.

1960: Youngstown detectives have questioned 40 men in the gangland slaying of S. Joseph “Sandy” Naples and his girlfriend in the month since the shooting, but so far all have alibis.

Automotive News says 924,294 new cars were registered in the first two months of 1960, more than any other year. Top sellers were Chevrolet, Ford, Plymouth, Rambler, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Dodge, Buick, Mercury and Cadillac, in that order.

1935: C.C. Stillman, federal relief administrator for Ohio, will meet with representatives of the Ohio Medical Association to discuss a plan for medical care of the indigent.

Theresa Popio and her daughters, Irma and Italia, manage to escape a fire at their home at 2027 W. Federal Street after the mewing of three kittens in the basement alert Irma, 12, to the danger. The family escaped but the kittens perished.