Years Ago

Today is Sunday, April 10, the 100th day of 2011. There are 265 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1790: President George Washington signs into law the first United States Patent Act.

1866: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is incorporated.

1912: The RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.

1932: German President Paul Von Hindenburg is re-elected in a runoff, with Adolf Hitler coming in second.

1947: Brooklyn Dodgers President Branch Rickey purchases the contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals.

1957: Egypt reopens the Suez Canal to all shipping traffic. (The canal had been closed due to wreckage resulting from the Suez Crisis.)

1963: The nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher sinks during deep-diving tests off Cape Cod, Mass., in a disaster that claims 129 lives.

1972: The United States and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare.

1974: Golda Meir announces her resignation as prime minister of Israel.

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1986: Beaver Township Police Chief Joseph S. Rinko and former Youngstown police officer Patrick Armstrong are called to testify before a Cleveland grand jury investigating possible corruption in the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department.

Enrollment at the Salem Campus of Kent State University which had fallen to 300 in 1980 continues to rebound, with 613 enrolled in the spring semester,

Gary Blake of East Liverpool, who received a Jarvik-7 artificial heart March 23, dies in Presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Negotiations are under way to bring Trailways bus lines to the downtown station of the WRTA.

1971: President Richard M. Nixon announces that he will nominate Warren Atty. William Letson to be general counsel of the Commerce Department.

Gloria McCottry, the wife of WFMJ gospel disc jockey Brother Al McCottry, dies when the small foreign car in which she was riding went out of control while passing a truck near Massillon.

Trustees of Copeland Oaks authorize construction of a $3.3 million addition to the East Ohio Conference United Methodist Home in Sebring.

A 28-year-old bandit is fatally wounded by one of three patrolmen who fired on him after they cornered him following an $80 robbery at the U-Save Market on Rigby St.

1961: The historic old gray stone Memorial Presbyterian Church at Wick Avenue and McGuffey Road, a landmark for more than 50 years, is vacant after the church was dissolved by the Mahoning Presbytery and the last services were held.

The business recession has prematurely put scores of Youngstown district “white collar” workers, particularly better-paid supervisory personnel, on the shelf with early retirements.

Two suspected con men from Detroit are in city jail after attempting to run the “pigeon drop” scam on a Youngstown man.

Meander Reservoir is reported to be full for the first time in almost a year.

The first 300 of some 5,000 unemployed Youngstown workmen who will claim extended unemployment benefits jam a temporary Bureau of Unemployment Compensation office at 2205 South Avenue.

1936: Women are buying higher priced hats, clothing and lingerie in the pre-Easter purchasing wave, say downtown merchants.

The Penn Ohio Bus Lines opens a new terminal in the former Hippodrome Arcade which is expected to handle passenger transfers for 125 buses a day.

The Mahoning-Shenango Kennel Club’s dog show at the Rayen-Wood Auditorium is expected to attract the princes and princesses of the dog world. Proceeds from the show go to the Youngstown Hospital Association and St. Elizabeth Hospital.