Years Ago

Today is Saturday, April 9, the 99th day of 2011. There are 266 days left in the year.

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1511: St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge is established.

1865: Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

1939: Singer Marian Anderson performs a concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington after being denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

1942: American and Philippine defenders on Bataan capitulate to Japanese forces; the surrender is followed by the notorious Bataan Death March which claimed thousands of lives.

1959: NASA presents its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 91, dies in Phoenix, Ariz.

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1986: The Youngstown City School District notifies 57 teachers that their contracts may not be renewed at the end of the school year. Pupil Personnel Director Ruben Nazario says that’s the lowest number notified of possible nonrenewal in recent years, and he anticipates that most will keep their jobs due to resignations and retirements.

The rock group ZZ Top sells out three performances at Pittsburgh’s Civic Arena, the first musical group to accomplish that feat in the arena’s 24-year history.

1971: Warren Fire Fighters Local 204 adopts a “company strength” policy that would require three men on any in-service apparatus.

Thirty-eight people arrested by FBI agents in Youngstown, East Liverpool and New Castle after being indicted on gambling charges by a federal grand jury are released on bond. A 39th was arrested in Miami and a 40th remains at large.

Someone steals a purse from the office at St. Patrick Elementary School that contained $100 Sister Charlotte, the principal, had collected to take five children at the school shopping for new Easter clothes.

1961: A deluge of acceptances have been received by A.S Glossbrenner, president of the Mahoning Valley Industrial Council, from 600 Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania residents he invited to a luncheon discussion of the Lake Erie-Ohio River canal.

Two bandits rob Fior Navarro, owner of the Wilson Sunoco Service Station, fleeing with $50 shortly before midnight.

1936: James Lane, a city fireman, and Harvey Altman, a police officer, drop out of the race for Mahoning County sheriff after a ruling by the Civil Service Commission that they could either run for elective office or keep their jobs, but not both.

Three armed bandits swiftly hold up and rob Zasil Zuber, proprietor of a beer garden at 2630 Shirley Road and escape with $50.

T.E. Steiner, a Wooster, Ohio, manufacturer, proposes a super highway 450 feet wide stretching from Boston to the West Coast which would cost $12 billion to build and would cut 500 miles off coast to coast travel.