Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, April 5, the 95th day of 2011. There are 270 days left in the year.

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1621: The Mayflower sails from Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts on a monthlong return trip to England.

1792: George Washington casts the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states.

1811: English philanthropist Robert Raikes, a promoter of Sunday schools, dies in Gloucester, England, at age 74.

1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death following their conviction in New York on charges of conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

1964: Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur dies in Washington at age 84.

1986: Two American servicemen and a Turkish woman are killed in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, an incident which prompts a U.S. air raid on Libya more than a week later.

1991: Former Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, his daughter Marian and 21 other people are killed in a commuter plane crash near Brunswick, Ga.

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1986: Members of the United Steelworkers union ratify a 40-month contract with LTV Corp. that swaps $3.15 per hour in wages and benefits for preferred stock and a share of future profits.

Atty. Lou D’Apolito drops out of the race for chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Party and announces his support for Boardman Township trustee Robert Bannon. Don L. Hanni Jr. is seeking a fifth two-year-term.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is giving priority to repairs to the dilapidated Lake Milton dam, but the lake may remain closed for two summers.

1971: Mahoning County records its 14th traffic fatality of 1971 with the death of an Akron man when his car hits a tree on Beloit Snodes Road.

Dr. Straughan L. Gettier of the First Unitarian Church of Youngstown, says community favor that has gravitated toward Lt. William Calley, who was convicted of killing civilians in Vietnam, is misplaced, especially during Holy Week, which is dedicated to the Prince of Peace.

1961: The Youngstown Civil Service Commission will conduct tests for 14 jobs in the departments of health and public works.

Worth C. Edwards, United Airlines city sales manager, says the Youngstown operations of Capital Air lines will be merged into United operations following approval of a plan by the Civil Aeronautics Board to save Capital from bankruptcy.

Msgr. A.P. Ferreri, pastor of St. Gregory the Great Church in South Euclid and former pastor of St. Ann Church in Youngstown, dies at 63.

1936: Warren Atty. Henry H. Hoppe, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, is being given credit for mapping a masterful presentation of the local argument for a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal before the Board of Army Engineers.

Seventeen of 33 people indicted by a Mahoning County grand jury for insurance fraud have been arrested.