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April 14, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, April 14, the 104th day of 2010. There are 261 days left in the year.

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1775: The first American society for the abolition of slavery is formed in Philadelphia.

1865: President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington.

1902: James Cash Penney opens his first store, The Golden Rule, in Kemmerer, Wyo.

1910: President William Howard Taft becomes the first U.S. chief executive to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game as the Washington Senators open their season with a 3-0 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics.

1912: The British liner RMS Titanic collides with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began sinking.

1956: Ampex Corp. demonstrates the first successful videotape recorder at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters Convention in Chicago.

1960: The musical “Bye Bye Birdie” opens on Broadway.

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1985: Dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church are arriving in Youngstown for ceremonies at St. Columba Cathedral to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Bishop James W. Malone’s ordination and his 25th year as a bishop.

Three years after the end of a bitter 20-week strike, unions and management at Trumbull Memorial Hospital say it has taken hard work to build a better relationship and a new three-year contract.

1970: Federal funds to finance a study of causes and cures for traffic congestion between Youngstown and Warren will be sought for the Mahoning-Trumbull Comprehensive Transportation Development Study.

The Rev. William North Jackson, acting dean of the Westminster College Chapel, New Wilmington, is called to the pastorate of Westminster Presbyterian Church.

1960: Youngstown Finance Director Abe Harshman tells city council that he is applying the brakes to any further spending not provided in the annual appropriation ordinance.

Charles Knirk, 80, a colorful horse fancier and stable operator, perishes in the flames of his horse barn on Hadley Avenue in Liberty Township as he attempted to save several horse in the structure. He saved five horses; two horses and a pony died.

1935: Raids by a federal agent, Chief Deputy Sheriff W.A. Wingert, and 16 deputies on four vice dens in Campbell result in the arrest of 25 women and 13 men.

Fifty-eight Vindicator newspaper carriers are headed to New York City where they will see the sights, including the Statue of Liberty, Broadway and Rockefeller Radio Center.

Vindicator music critic L.R. Boals says the third concert of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra’s 1935 series is the best it has ever done. Among the selections was “Euryanthe” by Weber.