Sunday, April 18, 2010
Today is Sunday, April 18, the 108th day of 2010. There are 257 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1775: Paul Revere begins his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British are coming.
1910: Suffragists show up at the U.S. Capitol with half a million signatures on petitions demanding that women receive the right to vote.
1945: Famed American war correspondent Ernie Pyle, 44, is killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa.
1978: The Senate approves the Panama Canal Treaty, providing for the complete turnover of control of the waterway to Panama on the last day of 1999.
1983: Sixty-three people, including 17 Americans, are killed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.
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1985: The city erects new signs at city entrances identifying Youngstown as “home of Rayen High School, 1985 state AA basketball champs.”
Trumbull County Auditor Edward Bush’s office finds that eight out of 10 gasoline pumps checked in the county gave inaccurate readings, all on the short side.
1970: Bill Lindsey, a former Poland resident and news director of WFMJ radio and TV, was the voice of NBC news on the deck of the recovery carrier Iwo Jima when the Apollo 13 crew splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
A three-month search for two West Virginia University coeds ends with the finding of their bodies in a ravine south of Morgantown, W.Va., not far from an area described as a lover’s lane.
1960: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan urges Trumbull County voters to approve a bond issue for the local share of the West Branch Reservoir, noting that the federal government is covering 99 percent of the cost of flood control.
Early birds looking for bargains descend on Downtown stores the morning after Easter.
A manhunt is launched in the New Philadelphia area for a man wanted in the murder of farmer William Fender, 59, and his wife Bernice, 54. Weary law enforcement officers comb abandoned mines and wooded areas for the man, who abandoned Mrs. Fender’s car following a high-speed chase.
1935: Two months after Frank Suhovecky, 13, left his Millet Avenue home for a trip to a dump near Idora Park to look for junk that would put a few pennies in his pocket, police remain baffled about his murder. The coroner says “evidence” of a pervert’s attack on the boy may have been faked.
Fifty-eight Mahoning County 8th graders score 150 or better on tests in arithmetic, science, history and English given by the county board of education. John P. Williams of Goshen gets the highest score in the county, 175.
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