YEARS AGO

April 28, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, April 28, the 118th day of 2010. There are 247 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1789: The mutiny on HMS Bounty takes place as the crew of the British ship sets Capt. William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. (Bligh and most of the men with him manage to reach Timor in 47 days.)

1918: Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the archduke’s wife, Sophie, dies in prison of tuberculosis.

1940: Glenn Miller and his Orchestra record “Pennsylvania 6-5000” for RCA Victor.

1945: Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are executed by Italian partisans as they attempt to flee the country.

1958: The United States conducts the first of 35 nuclear test explosions in the Pacific Proving Ground as part of Operation Hardtack I.

1967: Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refuses to be inducted into the Army, the same day Gen. William C. Westmoreland tells Congress the U.S. “would prevail in Vietnam.”

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1985: Mahoning County residents will be asked to evaluate the Youngstown and county court systems as part of an in depth survey being conducted by the Mahoning County Bar Association.

Almost 300 members of Ohio Right to Life groups, including three from Youngstown, attend workshops in Columbus and hear national speakers discuss strategies for protesting abortion.

U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum is among those attending the 25th anniversary celebration of the St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center’s Charity Ball at Mr. Anthony’s.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will clean up toxic chemicals at the city-owned Albert Street Industrial complex, Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro says.

1970: Police arrest a 21-year-old former student at Youngstown State University and a sophomore on charges of obstructing a public way during a demonstration following an address by Dr. Albert Pugsley in response to student demands.

Arsonists are believed responsible for a fire that broke out in the American Dream Pool Co. at 3782 McCartney Road, Coitsville Township, and caused more than $15,000 damage to the building and contents.

1960: U.S. Treasury agents raid the notorious B&B Billiards club at 44 N. Meridian Road, Austintown, uncovering plenty of gambling equipment, cards, dice, craps tables and money boxes, but made no arrest.

Two masked gunmen tie up a woman caretaker before ransacking the Canfield home of Morris J. Hoffman, president of United Salvage Co., and escaping with jewelry.

Warren Sowers, a 17-year-old senior at Poland High School, receives his Eagle Award. He is a member of the New Middletown Boy Scout Post 127 and the Poland track and rifle teams.

1935: Two Akron bandits arrested in the Warren mail robbery are suspects in a March 18 robbery of a Strouss messenger in which $22,000 was taken and a mail robbery in Butler that netted $50,000 in August.

Twenty deputy sheriffs headed by Sheriff Ralph Elser raid six places in East Alliance and Sebring simultaneously, arresting four people on liquor charges.

First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Youngstown is granted a federal charter, says its president, A.G. Welsch.