Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Today is Tuesday, April 24, the 115th day of 2012. There are 251 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1898: Spain declares war on the U.S., which reciprocates the next day.
1953: British statesman Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1960: Rioting erupts in Biloxi, Miss., after black protesters staging a “wade-in” at a whites-only beach are attacked by a crowd of hostile whites.
1962: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieves the first satellite relay of a television signal.
1970: The People’s Republic of China launches its first satellite, which keeps transmitting a song, “The East is Red.”
1980: A U.S. attempt to free the American hostages in Iran fails, resulting in the deaths of eight U.S. servicemen.
VINDICATOR FILES
1987: LTV Corp., in voluntary bankruptcy for nine months, manages to turn a healthy profit of $129 million in the first quarter of 1987, the first profitable quarter since 1983.
U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. successfully blocks the Federal Aviation Administration’s plan to shut down 55 flight stations, including the one at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
William E. Blair, New Springfield oil and gas developer and the new owner of Waterford Park, says improvements will be made at the track, which he intends to maintain strictly as a horse-racing operation.
1972: An operating budget of $21.9 million is approved by the board of trustees of Youngstown State University.
Youngstown police fire a hail of bullets into a house at 1025 High St. before a 20-year-old man who had barricaded himself inside and threatened to use dynamite tosses out a loaded pistol and surrenders.
1962: The entreaties and prayers of the cleaning staff at the Mahoning County Courthouse save a distraught unidentified woman who climbed over the fourth floor ledge in the rotunda, intending to jump to her death because she’d been told she has cancer. The workers grabbed her and pulled her to safety when she was distracted by the siren of a responding ambulance.
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. boosts its first quarter earnings to $9.4 million on sales of $182 million, a nearly $7 million increase over earning for the same quarter in1961.
1937: About 1,500 9th District Legionnaires are expected at the spring conference when the Girard Legion Post dedicates its new home. An open meeting at the high school auditorium will follow the dedication ceremony.
Building Service Employees union calls a strike at the Hotel Ohio in downtown Youngstown after one of the union members was fired. Fifty housekeepers walked out immediately and as many as 200 employees are expected to join the strike.
Daniel B. Harris of Girard, affectionately known as “Squire” and the oldest justice of the peace in Mahoning and Trumbull counties, dies in North Side hospital. He was 78.