Years Ago

Today is Thursday, April 19, the 110th day of 2012. There are 256 days left in the year.

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1012: Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, is slain by Danish invaders in Greenwich, England, after refusing to allow himself to be ransomed.

1775: The American Revolutionary War begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.

1912: A special subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee opens hearings in New York into the Titanic disaster. (The hearings are subsequently moved to Washington, D.C.)

1995: A truck bomb destroys the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.

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1987: Tests by the Ohio Department of Transportation find that defective blast furnace slag is responsible for early deterioration of a major resurfacing of Interstate 80 in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

U.S. Sens. John H. Heinz II and Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania say the bankruptcy of Sharon Steel Corp. shows that the federal government must act to stop the dumping of foreign steel on U.S. Markets.

Mahoning and Shenango valley anglers take to area streams in large numbers for the opening day of trout season.

1972: Canfield City Council votes to remain in the Western Reserve Transit Authority over the strong objections of Councilman Robert Brooks.

Speaking at the Voyager Motor Inn in downtown Youngstown, U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine advocates to “end the war, reform the tax structure and get the country working on things that need done.”

The Youngstown Catholic Diocese is looking to individual parishes to work out financial plans for the 1972-73 school year after the U.S. District Court in Columbus strikes down an Ohio plan to reimburse parents of parochial schools $90 per pupil.

1962: Eight major manufacturers of metal office furniture, including General Fireproofing Co. of Youngstown, are fined a total of $220,000 in federal district court in Buffalo on charges of price fixing.

Jack Douds, president of the South High School Wheel Club, presents the national oratorical contest trophy that he won at the Daytona Beach, Fla., Rotary conference to principal John Hunter. The Wheel Club is sponsored by the local Rotary.

Police Chief William R. Golden bans the use of traffic patrolmen as escorts for funeral processions on city time after a city motorcycle and a private car collided. Funeral homes will have to provide insurance and a vehicle and pay off-duty officers to be escorts.

1937: The Nufer Cedar Co. in Wheatland produces 4,500 wooden boxes a day that are used by area mills to ship tin plate. The company began in Whitehall, Mich., in 1869 as a manufacturer of cedar shingles.

Mayor Lionel Evans suffers a broken nose and chest injuries when his auto smashes into the back of a car that stopped suddenly in Fifth Avenue as the mayor was driving to work.