YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2015. There are 273 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1792: Congress passes the Coinage Act, which authorizes establishment of the U.S. Mint.

1800: Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21, in Vienna.

1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va., because of advancing Union forces.

1917: President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, “The world must be made safe for democracy.” (Congress declared war four days later.)

1932: Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh and John F. Condon go to a cemetery in The Bronx, N.Y., where Condon turns over $50,000 to a man in exchange for Lindbergh’s kidnapped son. (The child, who was not returned, was found dead the following month.)

1942: Glenn Miller and his orchestra record “American Patrol” at the RCA Victor studios in Hollywood.

1956: The soap operas “As the World Turns” and “The Edge of Night” premiere on CBS-TV.

1968: The science-fiction film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, has its world premiere in Washington D.C.

1974: French President Georges Pompidou, 62, dies in Paris.

1982: Several thousand troops from Argentina seize the disputed Falkland Islands, located in the south Atlantic, from Britain. (Britain seized the islands back the following June.)

1986: Four American passengers are killed when a bomb explodes aboard a TWA jetliner en route from Rome to Athens, Greece.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Warren’s safety-service director, Henry “Hank” Angelo, will ask the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its order that the Fowler Landfill operated by Frank Kish stop accepting refuse by the end of 1990. The landfill is the only repository used by the city of Warren’s sanitation department.

Mahoning County Prosecutor James A. Philomena fails to win the endorsement of the local United Auto Workers Union in his race for the Democratic nomination for Ohio Attorney General. A union official says the local political action committee is prohibited from endorsing in statewide contests.

1975: Citing an anticipated deficit of $90,000, the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District is seeking a 42 percent increase in wholesale water rates for Niles and Youngstown.

Amy Shaw, 18, a city law department clerk, dies in South Side Hospital of gunshot wounds a week after being shot by Celester Jones, 22, who died after turning the gun on himself.

Football Coach Woody Hayes opens practice for his 25th season at Ohio State University. He lost 13 starters from his 10-2 squad that shared the Big Ten crown with Michigan and lost to Southern California in the Rose Bowl.

1965: Lou “The Toe” Groza, former Cleveland Browns football player, is the speaker for the Father-Son Communion breakfast at St. John the Baptist Slovak Catholic Church in Campbell.

The Industrial Institute invites 1,000 Mahoning Valley clergymen to tour local business and industrial sites to give the visitors a chance to see the working environment of their church members.

After considerable delay, demolition begins on the Keith-Albee building on Central Square to make way for Plaza One, a proposed project of the Stephen C. Baytos and Associates.

1940: Mahoning County Judge George Gessner orders county Auditor George W. Jones Jr. to publish lists of people delinquent in real estate and personal property taxes and to advertise delinquent lands for sale.

Mahoning County WPA Administrator Fred A. Wagner says all local WPA employees in administrative capacities who are seeking political office must either withdraw as candidates or quit their WPA posts.

Dr. William H. Bunn of Youngstown will conduct clinics during a convention of 3,000 doctors of internal medicine attending the 24th annual session of the College of Physicians in Cleveland.