YEARS AGO

April 29, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, April 29, the 119th day of 2010. There are 246 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1429: Joan of Arc enters the besieged city of Orleans to lead a French victory over the English.

1798: Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” is rehearsed in Vienna, Austria, before an audience.

1901: Japanese Emperor Hirohito is born in Tokyo.

1916: The Easter Rising in Dublin collapses as Irish nationalists surrender to British authorities.

1945: During World War II, American soldiers liberate the Dachau concentration camp; the same day, Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun and designated Adm. Karl Doenitz president.

1946: Twenty-eight former Japanese officials go on trial in Tokyo as war criminals; seven of the defendants end up being sentenced to death.

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1985: Former Congressman Lyle Williams confirms that he would be interested in running for lieutenant governor on a Republican ticket headed by James A. Rhodes if Rhodes decides to make another bid for governor in 1986.

North Star Steel Co., vowing to become a “permanent part of the revitalization of the area economy,” completes its $22.5 million acquisition of Hunt Steel Co.’s idle steel mini-mill on West Federal Street.

Mark Matvey, a senior at Campbell Memorial High, earns a berth in the Mr. Teenage USA Bodybuilding Contest in July in West Palm Beach, Fla.

1970: Liberty Board of Education drops Pete Prokop as athletic director during a stormy meeting at which the AD and faculty manager posts are combined under a new title and given to Guy Van Demia, the faculty manager.

Campbell police remain on a sick-out that began April 20, and will reportedly stay off the job until they receive overdue paychecks.

1960: Charles M. Beeghly, prominent Youngstown industrialist, is named president of the fourth largest steel firm in the United States, Jones & Laughlin of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Leonard T. Skeggs, noted alumnus of Youngstown University, speaks at the dedication of YU’s $1.4 million ultramodern science building, calling for better climate for science.

1935: Four Enon Valley men, three of them brothers, are killed when a Chicago-bound passenger train hits their car in East Palestine. Dead are James Walker, Jr., 24, and Carl H. Renner Jr., 24; Omer W. Renner, 23, and William F. Renner, 21.

Betty Wilson, an 18-year-old University of California coed and daughter of William G. Wilson, former president of the W.B. Pollock Co. of Youngstown, is engaged to marry Farid Simalka, Egyptian diving champion. Los Angeles County initially refused to issue a marriage license until consulting ethnologists, who determined that the prospective bridegroom is of the Caucasian race.