Saturday, April 17, 2010
Today is Saturday, April 17, the 107th day of 2010. There are 258 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1521: Martin Luther goes before the Diet of Worms to face charges stemming from his religious writings. He is later declared an outlaw by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
1524: Giovanni da Verrazano reaches present-day New York Harbor.
1861: The Virginia State Convention votes to secede from the Union.
1964: Ford Motor Co. unveils its new Mustang at the New York World’s Fair.
Jerrie Mock of Columbus, Ohio, becomes the first woman to complete a solo airplane flight around the world.
1975: Cambodia’s five-year war ends as the capital Phnom Penh falls to the Khmer Rouge, which institutes radical policies that claim an estimated 1.7 million lives until the regime is overthrown in 1979.
1990: The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, the civil rights activist and top aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dies in Atlanta at age 64.
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1985: John Wendle, mathematics curriculum director for the Youngstown city schools, is on the 12-member committee that will recommend Ohio’s two nominees for NASA’s Teacher in Space Project.
Five people are injured, including three firemen, when a fire truck and a car collide at East Washington and Mill streets in New Castle. The $125,000 pumper truck struck the Rite Aid Drug Store after hitting the car and was judged a total loss.
1970: Youngstown school teachers will go on strike May 4 unless a new contract with improvements in salary and fringe benefits is reached.
Air raid sirens in Youngstown sound at 1:08 p.m., the moment that the Apollo 13 crew ended its aborted moon mission with a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Opening at the Strouss Auditorium, Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” produced by the speech and drama department of Youngstown State University and featuring guest artist Ron Carrier.
1960: The Youngstown District‘s major iron and steel plants are stepping up their use of imported iron ore, with the largest sources being Venezuela and Labrador.
The Rt. Rev. Andrew A. Prokop, pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church at Wickliffe, is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his ordination.
1935: Naturalist John H. Chase makes an appeal for residents to provide feed for birds during the area’s unusually cold spell. “If we want songs this summer, we will have to feed the birds for a few days now,” Chase says.
Five men working for small numbers houses in the city are fined $105 in Youngstown Municipal Court, all connected with small “bug” houses. The city’s big operators continue to function uninhibited.
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