Monday, April 18, 2011
Today is Monday, April 18, the 108th day of 2011. There are 257 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday Passover begins at sunset.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1775: Paul Revere begins his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.
1906: An earthquake strikes San Francisco, followed by raging fires; the final death toll ranges between 3,000 and 6,000.
1910: Suffragists show up at the U.S. Capitol with half a million signatures on petitions demanding that women receive the right to vote.
1942: During World War II, an air squadron from the USS Hornet led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raids Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1945: Famed American 1983: Sixty-three people, including 17 Americans, are killed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.
VINDICATOR FILES
1986: Ohio Secretary of State Sherrod Brown asks the 7th District Court of Appeals to dismiss a complaint filed by Atty. David J. Betras against the Mahoning County Board of Elections after the board rejected his candidacy for Democratic precinct committeeman.
Springfield Township trustees go on record in opposition to any type of landfill operation in the township.
1971: Five people on the official House of Representatives payroll of Rep. Charles J. Carney, D-19th, Youngstown, do not actually work in his office and hold second jobs elsewhere. Among them are Jack Sulligan, the Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman, and a lawyer in a Youngstown law firm, an investigator for the Mahoning County prosecutor, and an administrative assistant to the Democratic minority leader in the Ohio Senate.
Writing in the “Ohio Library Association Bulletin,” two Youngstown librarians report a phenomenal rise in the use of paperback books in every branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County,
1961: Former Warren Patrolman Richard Stanley, pale and speaking with difficulty from a gunshot wound of his face suffered in an assassination attempt, testifies at the robbery trial of Struthers gambler Ronald Carabbia.
The 7th District Court of Appeals upholds Youngstown’s ordinance requiring retirement of police officers after age 65 or 33 years of service.
1936: Michael Ficocelli is honored for “Outstanding Civic Achievement” by the Youngstown Junior Chamber of Commerce for his efforts as conductor of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra.
Gov. Martin L. Davey speaks at Central Auditorium before a pre-election crowd of Youngstown area Democrats.
Youngstown’s first hobby show opens at the YMCA with 600 in attendance.