Years Ago

Today is Friday, April 20, the 111th day of 2012. There are 255 days left in the year.

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1945: During World War II, allied forces take control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart.

1972: The manned lunar module from Apollo 16 lands on the moon.

1999: The Columbine High School massacre takes place in Colorado as two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shoot and kill 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives.

2010: An explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, leased by BP, kills 11 workers and begins spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico.

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1987: Disgruntled pensioners of LTV Corp. from Ohio and Pennsylvania attend Easter Sunday services at the company’s towering headquarters n Dallas. The Rev. William “Jay” Geisler of Aliquippa, Pa., celebrates the Mass as security guards look on.

Youngstown President of Council Michael J. Crogan, seeking a third two-year term, is being challenged by 3rd Ward Councilman George M. McKelvey.

Austintown Fitch High School inducts 13 seniors and 87 juniors into its National Honor Society.

1972: A bomb demolishes a 1969 Cadillac owned by Samuel Amicarelli, 278 E. Rayen Ave. jarring a section of Youngstown’s near East Side.

Kessler Products Co., a plastics extruder, has purchased the Lederer Terminal and is using the 200,000 square-foot structure for warehousing its products.

1962: The Lake Erie-to-Ohio River canal will attract $35 billion worth of industry, Rep. Michael J. Kirwan says, responding to a Pittsburgh economist’s claim that the project would “result in an enormous tax revenue loss.”

Dr. George A. Bowman, former Youngstown superintendent of schools who has seen Kent State University’s enrollment grow from 891 to 13,000 during his tenure, will retire in 1963, when he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70.

1937: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. reports its best first quarter ever, showing a net profit of nearly $4.9 million, the highest for the quarter since 1929.

Walter Childs, 7th Ward councilman, launches a campaign against a new high-voltage line to supply Republic Steel Corp. plants, charging Ohio Edison with “the destruction of a beautiful neighborhood.