Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, April 18, the 109th day of 2012. There are 257 days left in the year.

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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: A devastating earthquake strikes San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000.

1910: Suffragists show up at the U.S. Capitol with half a million signatures demanding that women have the right to vote.

1942: An air squadron from the USS Hornet led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raids Tokyo and other Japanese cities during World War II.

1978: The Senate approves the Panama Canal Treaty, providing for the complete turnover of control of the waterway to Panama on the last day of 1999.

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1987: Sharon Steel Corp., threatened with being forced into liquidation, files for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

A Beaver Township mini casino that was raided by the FBI had operated in Youngstown and Boardman before being moved to the old Congress Motel on Market Street Extension, investigators say.

CSC Industries Inc. of which Copperweld Steel is a wholly owned subsidiary, reports a first quarter profit of $561,000, the first in three years.

1972: Youngstown native Martin J. Hillenbrand is nominated by President Nixon to be U.S. ambassador to West Germany.

Warren City Council authorizes the advertisement for bids for a sanitary sewer overflow designed to alleviate the flooding that plagued the city during a recent rainstorm.

1962: Mayor Harry N. Savasten will ask parent-teacher organizations in the Youngstown to underwrite a training institute in juvenile policing for district law enforcement personnel.

The Rev. George Hadjis, pastor of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, is elected president of the newly formed Eastern Orthodox Clergy Association of the Mahoning Valley.

Mayor Harry Savasten tells engineers that the new city sewage treatment plant should use steel pipe rather than wrought iron.

1937: Two bandits hold up a three-table bridge party at the home of W.J. Miller, 474 Norwood Ave., and escape with $250 in pocket money and a ring valued at $30.

State Rep. William Glass proposes an amendment to the Youngstown Municipal Court bill that would make the court into a country-wide district court, or “junior” common pleas court.

Kinsman’s famous son, Atty. Clarence Darrow, marks his 80th birthday in Chicago, where he says his efforts in behalf of the unfortunate have given him the most satisfaction.