Years Ago

Today is Friday, April 29, the 119th day of 2011. 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 invited audience.

1861: The Maryland House of Delegates votes 53-13 against seceding from the Union.

In Montgomery, Ala., during an address to a special session of the Confederate Congress, President Jefferson Davis asks for the authority to wage war.

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.

Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun and designates Adm. Karl Doenitz president.

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

1961: “ABC’s Wide World of Sports” premieres, with Jim McKay as host.

1974: President Richard M. Nixon announces he is releasing edited transcripts of some secretly made White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

1983: Harold Washington is sworn in as the first black mayor of Chicago.

1991: A cyclone strikes the South Asian country of Bangladesh, claiming an estimated 138,000 lives.

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1986: Youngstown’s Edward J. DeBartolo, the nation’s largest developer of shopping malls, says he is considering a bid to buy the financially troubled Cleveland Indians to keep the baseball team in the city.

A stubborn fire destroyed the saturation department and warehouse of the Koppers Co. on Logan Avenue.

Citing the inability to get liability insurance at reasonable rates, the Austintown Township trustees order the closing of township parks until further notice. Four park commissioners resign, saying they are concerned that they could be held personally liable for injuries if the parks aren’t insured.

1971: The Youngstown Hospital Association officially launches its $2.6 million drive at a luncheon at South Side Hospital.

A heavy explosion blows off the front door and causes extensive damage at the East Side Improvement Club at 624 Wilson Ave.

Tony Cougras, head football coach at Campbell Memorial, is the new president of the Mahoning Valley Coaches Association.

1961: Frank Kotel, 39, a steelworker, is killed instantly by a hit-skip car in Mahoning Avenue. Police jail a suspect and three companions.

Kitty Lou Henderson, manager of Jamestown Upholsterers Inc. at 1217 Wick Avenue who had been keeping weekly deposits at her home since the company was robbed several years before, has $3,000 in cash and checks stolen from her Hilton Avenue home.

The city Park and Recreation Commission votes to seek bids for sale of gasoline and rental of dock facilities at Lake Milton, ending United Marine Co.’s monopoly.

1936: Harry Weiss of Brooklyn, N.Y., participant in the kidnapping of New Jersey Atty. Paul Wendel, is arrested in a rooming house on Woodland Avenue, in Youngstown.

J.C. Argetsinger is elected a vice president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., the city’s leading industry.