YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, April 7, the 97th day of 2015. There are 268 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1788: An expedition led by Gen. Rufus Putnam establishes a settlement at present-day Marietta, Ohio.

1862: Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.

1915: Jazz singer-songwriter Billie Holiday, also known as “Lady Day,” is born in Philadelphia.

1927: The image and voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover are transmitted live from Washington to New York in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.

1939: Italy invades Albania, which would be annexed less than a week later.

1945: During World War II, American planes intercept and effectively destroy a Japanese fleet, which included the battleship Yamato that was headed to Okinawa on a suicide mission.

1949: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “South Pacific” opens on Broadway.

1953: The U.N. General Assembly ratifies Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden as the new secretary-general, succeeding Trygve Lie of Norway.

1966: The U.S. Navy recovers a hydrogen bomb that the U.S. Air Force had lost in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain following a B-52 crash.

1978:President Jimmy Carter announces he is deferring development of the neutron bomb, a high-radiation weapon.

1985: British pop sensation Wham! (George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley) perform at a packed Beijing stadium in Communist China’s first big-name rock concert.

1990: A display of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs opens at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center, the same day the center and its director are indicted on obscenity charges (both were acquitted).

An arson fire aboard a ferry en route from Norway to Denmark kills 158 people.

2005: The blockbuster painkiller Bextra is taken off the market, and the FDA says all similar prescription drugs should strongly warn about possible risk of heart attacks and strokes.

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1990: A light manufacturing company from North Carolina may relocate to General Electric’s closed Trumbull Lamp Plant in Warren and hire 400 people, says state Rep. Michael Verich, D-Warren.

Gerie Wagner delivers her son, Andrew Michael, in the parking lot of the Burger King restaurant in downtown Warren, after a friend who was driving her to the hospital got lost on the way. When mother and child finally arrived at Trumbull Memorial Hospital, maternity ward nurses nicknamed the baby “Little Whopper.”

Mahoning Valley new car and truck sales declined 15.2 percent in March from a year earlier, with 1,824 vehicles sold in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

1975: Bill Narduzzi, a Canton native who left the assistant’s post at Kentucky University to become head coach of the YSU Penguins football team, will be the headline speaker at the Curbstone Coaches’ luncheon.

An East Sider and a Campbell man are in the Youngstown jail after attacking Rodney Lewis, an off-duty policeman working security at the Tomorrow Club at 213 W. Federal St., after he ordered them to leave the balcony area.

Dona Huntley, a junior at Rayen School, is judged best speaker in the annual oratorical contest sponsored by Buckeye Elks Lodge 73 and the Naomi Temple 124.

1965: Rudolph Wyatt, a seventh-grade teacher at Jackson School, will direct Youngstown’s Neighborhood Youth Corps, which will provide community-service jobs for youths in school and out.

Twenty-one Boardman and South Side Youngstown churches combine for Good Friday services on the theme, “The Seven Last Words of Christ.” Boardman services will be at St. James Episcopal Church and the South Side’s at Indianola Methodist Church.

1940: Youngstown College becomes fully accredited and made a member of the Ohio College Association, one of the oldest educational accrediting organizations in the United States.

“I have yet to meet an Army man who sought war,” says Msgr. Joseph N. Trainor, a wartime chaplain, at the Annual Army Day banquet under the auspices of the 37th Division Association at the downtown Youngstown Elks Club.

The sale of 1,200 tickets for the Monday Musical Club’s concert series for 1940-41 is reported at the first report meeting held at the YMCA.