Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, April 10, the 101st day of 2012. 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.

1862: Congress passes a joint resolution offering financial aid to any state which agreed to gradually abolish slavery.

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.

1962: United States Steel Chairman Roger Blough informs President John F. Kennedy of his company’s decision to raise steel prices an average of $6 a ton. (Under administration pressure, Blough changes his mind.)

1963: The nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher sinks during deep-diving tests off Cape Cod, Mass.; all 129 aboard are lost.

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

1992: Comedian Sam Kinison is killed in a car crash outside Needles, Calif., at age 38.

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1987: Rosemary Durkin, clerk of Youngstown municipal courts, asks the 7th District Court of Appeals to force City Council to provide the $506,031 she said she needs to operate her department. Council appropriated $76,000 less than she asked.

LTV Corp. agrees to make a one-time payment of a maximum of $750 each to steelworkers who lost their benefits when the government took over their pension plans.

A 29-year-old Haymaker Street man is acquitted by Mahoning County common Pleas Judge Charles J. Bannon of aggravated murder charges in the shooting death of Ihsan Aydah during a robbery at the Sinjil Market.

1972: Work gets underway on the first “skyscraper” by Youngstown standards to be built downtown in 43 years, the KMW Building at E. Federal and N. Champion streets.

Gregorie Mustric, a 72-year-old grocer, and a neighbor, Mrs. Mary Moga, 69, are found shot to death at the Economy Market on Howard Avenue in Salem. Dr. William Kalozsi rules the deaths homicides but divulges no details.

1962: J. Jaspar “Fats” Aeillo is arrested for speeding in Market Street for the second time in two weeks, by the same patrolmen, Peter Novosel and William Gruver. The first time, Aiello was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon; not so the second time.

Speaking in Washington, Congressman Michael J. Kirwan, D-Youngstown, says America’s canal projects have invariably acted as magnets to new industry.

Mayor Harry Savasten follows the path of some of his predecessors, issuing a memorandum to all department heads that no news is to be released without approval of the mayor’s office.

The new Wedgewood Plaza on S. Raccoon Road between Kirk Road and Mahoning Avenue has its formal opening. The plaza contains a Loblaw’s supermarket and Isaly’s dairy store.

1937: Two gunmen, one drunk and the other looking like a student, take $179 from two customers, the clerk and the cash register at a dairy store at 2012 Market Street.

Twenty-one Youngstown business and civic organizations go on record favoring the “no new tax” program of the Inter-organizational Conference Committee during a meeting at the YMCA.

Sheriff’s deputies drag relief “sit downers” from the office of Gov. Martin L. Davey, arresting six organizers. A group of 100 protesters find haven in a church and pledge to continue their protests.