Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, April 15, the 105th day of 2014. There are 260 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1764: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, the highly influential mistress of France’s King Louis XV, dies at Versailles at age 42.

1850: City of San Francisco is incorporated.

1865: President Abraham Lincoln dies, nine hours after being shot the night before by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington; Andrew Johnson becomes the nation’s 17th president.

1874: An exhibition of paintings by 30 artists, including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cezanne, opens in Paris. (A critic derisively referred to the painters as “Impressionists,” a name which stuck.)

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1989: Gov. Richard F. Celeste asks the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to find out why gasoline prices are increasing at rates that cost the state’s consumers $1 million a year.

Teralynn Landis of Youngstown, a 3-year-old who needs a third liver transplant, is featured on a nationally syndicated program, “USA Today,” about the need for organ donations.

1974: Sixty mph winds rip off many roofs in the Mahoning Valley and flatten the pavilion at the Chicago Avenue Playground in Youngstown.

Dr. James A. Mazzi of Liberty Township is re-elected president of the 10th District Academy of the Ohio Osteopathic Association.

1964: The Youngstown Zoning Board rejects a request for an exception to Residence C on a lot on Fifth Avenue near Fairgreen Avenue that would have cleared the way for a new Shriver-Allison funeral home.

Seymour Baskin, a Pittsburgh attorney, tells the Youngstown Metropolitan Development Citizens Committee that Youngstown needs a revolving fund to provide loans for private developers in urban renewal areas.

Charles A. Vimmerstedt, manager of the Greater Youngstown Safety Council, says the council hopes to have 80,000 motorists participate in the council’s free auto safety inspection, nearly twice the number who got “Red Circle for Safety” stickers in 1963.

1939: Ignorance is the major danger to American democracy and must be fought by educating children to participate “intelligently and rationally” as citizens, Dr. Alonzo G. Grace, commissioner of education in Connecticut, tells about 1,200 teachers at Stambaugh Auditorium.

Between six and 10 watches valued at about $350 were stolen from a display window of the Brenner Jewelry store, 200 W. Federal St., by burglars who hurled a brick through the window.