Years Ago

April 24, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Saturday, April 24, the 114th day of 2010. There are 251 days left in the year.

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1800: Congress approves a bill establishing the Library of Congress.

1877: Federal troops are ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North’s post-Civil War rule in the South.

1915: The Ottoman Empire rounds up Armenian political and cultural leaders in Constantinople at the start of what many scholars regard as the first genocide of the 20th century in which an estimated 1.5 million Armenians died.

1960: Rioting erupts in Biloxi, Miss. after black protesters staging a “wade-in” at a whites-only beach are attacked by a crowd of hostile whites.

1980: The U.S. launches an unsuccessful attempt to free the American hostages in Iran, a mission that results in the deaths of eight U.S. servicemen.

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1985: Mahoning County voter rolls are 170,927, about 10,000 lower than in the November election after the names are dropped of anyone who hasn’t voted for four years.

Vindicator Sports Editor Chuck Perazich reports that Bernie Kosar, former Boardman quarterback, is coming home to play for the Cleveland Browns.

1970: A car containing two Rogers couples is forced off the road and into a guardrail by a pick-up truck that was serving as an escort for a caravan of steel trucks in Route 7 near Route 14 during labor unrest. The car was apparently mistaken for that of a picket when it attempted to pass the convoy.

Atty. Patrick J. Melillo is honored for 25 years as chairman of the of Local Board 80 of the Ohio Selective Service System.

Idora Park is planning a variety of events to celebrate its 75th anniversary when it opens for the 1970 season.

The Rev. Austin Sowers, assistant pastor of First Church of God in Newton Falls, is commissioned a missionary to serve at Green Valley Church of God in Heckenberg, New South Wales, Australia.

1960: A plan to revive the fabulously successful Benada Aluminium Co. and reopen its Girard factory for aluminium processing is under consideration by Ben Friedkin, former head of the firm.

1935: Police Chief Leroy Goodwin is asked to investigate all local junk dealers and arrest those without permits in an effort to crackdown on the theft and resale of scrap metal in the city.

Sheriff Ralph Elser finds a 600-gallon copper still in the basement of a 24-room house on Worthington Street, but apparently missed a truck that hauled away a load of liquor a short time before the raid.

The New World-Wide Illustrated Encyclopedia, a complete up-to-the minute six-volume encyclopedia, is being offered to Vindicator readers for 93 cents per volume.