YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, April 9, the 99th day of 2015. There are 266 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1413: The coronation of England’s King Henry V takes place in Westminster Abbey.

1682: French explorer Robert de La Salle claims the Mississippi River Basin for France.

1865: Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his army to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

1913: The first game is played at Ebbets Field, the newly built home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who lost to the Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0.

1914: The Tampico Incident takes place as eight U.S. sailors are arrested by Mexican authorities for allegedly entering a restricted area and held for a short time before being released.

1939: Singer Marian Anderson performs a concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after being denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

1940: During World War II, Germany invades Denmark and Norway.

1942: American and Philippine defenders on Bataan capitulate to Japanese forces; the surrender is followed by the notorious Bataan Death March.

1945: German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 39, is executed by the Nazis at the Flossenburg concentration camp.

1959: NASA presents its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 91, dies in Phoenix, Ariz.

1965: The newly built Astrodome in Houston features its first baseball game, an exhibition between the Astros and the New York Yankees, with President Lyndon B. Johnson in attendance. (The Astros won, 2-1, in 12 innings.)

1983: The space shuttle Challenger ends its first mission with a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

1996: In a dramatic shift of purse-string power, President Bill Clinton signs a line-item veto bill into law. (However, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the veto in 1998.)

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1990: For the first time in seven weeks, Bristol Local School District employees return to work after agreeing to binding arbitration to end a bitter strike that has divided the community.

Poland Village, with a population of 3,250 covering about a square mile issued 3,071 speeding tickets from January 1989 through March 1990, compared to 754 in Canfield, which has twice the population and covers three times the area.

Mayors for eight Mahoning Valley communities are compiling a list of projects that they want Ohio gubernatorial candidates to address before the election.

1975: Gov. James A. Rhodes reappoints Turnpike Chairman James W. Shocknessy at an emotional meeting of the commission during which Shocknessy revealed he has undergone surgery for cancer.

The body of Frank Kichak Jr., 17, is found with a telephone receiver in his hand and a gunshot wound to the head in the bedroom of his home at 79 Rutledge Ave.

Robert D. Lund, General Motors Corp. vice president and general manager of the Chevrolet Division, will be at the Lordstown complex for the kickoff ceremony for the Cosworth Vega, a limited-edition sports-car version of the Vega that is being produced at the rate of 26 vehicles a day.

1965: Bishop Emmet Walsh appoints the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J. Lettau pastor of St. Edward Parish, replacing the late Rt. Rev. Msgr. William S. Nash.

The Alliance Board of Education asks the Ohio Education Association to study the athletic department at Alliance High School after the non- renewal of the basketball coach’s contract brings on a storm of protest from students and Alliance residents.

1940: Judge George Gessner finds that Joseph W. Clark was acting in self defense in a fight outside the Canteen Club that led to the death of John P. Kane, furniture dealer, but fines Clark $50 for assault and battery.

About 3,000 Mahoning Valley steelworkers are affected by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision refusing to overturn an order by the National Labor Relations Board directing Republic Steel Corp. to reinstate about 5,000 SWOC strikers, with backpay estimated at more than $5 million.

Cleveland Mayor Harold H. Burton, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, will attend the Youngstown Newspaper Guild’s third gridiron banquet at the Hotel Ohio.