Years Ago

Today is Sunday, April 14, the 104th day of 2013. There are 261 days left in the year.

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1775: The first American society for the abolition of slavery is formed in Philadelphia.

1865: President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington.

1902: James Cash Penney opens his first store, The Golden Rule, in Kemmerer, Wyo.

1910: President William Howard Taft becomes the first U.S. chief executive to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game as the Washington Senators beat the Philadelphia Athletics 3-0.

1912: The British liner RMS Titanic collides with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship’s time and begins sinking.

1956: Ampex Corp. demonstrates its videotape recorder at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters Convention in Chicago.

1981: The first test flight of America’s first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ends successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

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1988: Columbiana County commissioners vote to collect a sales tax for only five years if voters approve the 1 percent sales tax on the May ballot.

James R. Petersen, writer of the “Playboy Adviser” feature in Playboy magazine speaks about sex to about 50 students at the Shenango Campus of Penn State University.

Residents from Warren and Leavittsburg are given an opportunity at a Warren City Council meeting to voice their opposition to a $39 million state prison on Warren’s West Side.

1973: The faculty of Youngstown State University grants the executive committee of the YSU/Ohio Education Association authority to call a strike if a contract can’t be reached with the university.

Sigma Sigma Sigma wins the sorority competition at Youngstown State University’s Greek Sing with a medley from “Funny Girl” and Sigma Phi Epsilon wins the fraternity crown for the fourth consecutive year, breaking the old mark set by second place winner Phi Sigma Kappa in the 1960s.

1963: On the first day of a new parking ordinance, Youngstown police hand out 150 tickets. Meanwhile, plans are being made to issue arrest warrants for violators who still owe on 1961 and 1962 tickets.

Suzanne Krejci, 17, a senior at Chardon High School, will reign over the 34th Chardon Maple Festival.

Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes believes he has recruited a replacement for Warren’s Paul War-field with the signing of Niles McKinley’s Bob “Bo” Rein.

1938: Ezra C. Welsh of New Middletown, widely known distiller and oil man and producer of the famous New Middletown Golden Rye Whisky, dies in South Side hospital of pneumonia.

Youngstown police and state liquor agents raid eight alleged speakeasies, arresting eight people and confiscating liquor intended for Easter consumption.

Petitions are being circulated to prohibit liquor sales in two First Ward precincts in Youngstown and in Austintown Township.

Between 400 and 500 Ohio Leather Co. employees are idle as picket lines are set up around the Girard plant by the National Leather Workers Association, a CIO affiliate.