YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, April 11, the 101st day of 2015. There are 264 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1689: William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.

1713: The Treaty of Utrecht is signed, ending the War of the Spanish Succession.

1865: President Abraham Lincoln speaks to a crowd outside the White House, saying, “We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.” (It was the last public address Lincoln would deliver.)

1899: The treaty ending the Spanish-American War is declared in effect.

1921: Iowa becomes the first state to impose a cigarette tax, at 2 cents a package.

1945: During World War II, American soldiers liberate the notorious Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany.

1951: President Harry S. Truman relieves Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his commands in the Far East.

1955: The film drama “Marty,” starring Ernest Borgnine, is released by United Artists.

1965: Dozens of tornadoes rake six Midwestern states on Palm Sunday, killing 271 people.

1970: Apollo 13, with astronauts James A. Lovell, Fred W. Haise and Jack Swigert, blasts off on its ill-fated mission to the moon.

1979: Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seize control.

1989: Mexican officials begin unearthing the remains of victims of a drug-trafficking cult near Matamoros; one of the dead is University of Texas student Mark Kilroy, who had disappeared while on spring break. (Several cult members were later convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to 50 years in prison.)

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1990: The Canfield Fair Board votes unanimously to relieve the Canfield Junior Citizens Club of its duties in operating the sound tower, eliminating most of the thousands of person-to-person announcements that were being made during the fair at a charge of 25 cents each.

A $500-a-plate fund-raising dinner pumps about $55,000 into the campaign of Mahoning County Prosecutor James A. Philomena in his bid for the Democratic nomination for state attorney general.

Columbiana County Sheriff Richard J. Koffel is developing plans to turn the vacant county nursing home into a minimum security jail to end a backlog of almost 600 people waiting to serve their sentences.

1975: The Eastgate Development and Transportation Agency applies for a $360,000 federal grant to repair 105 houses in Youngstown.

A 7 percent pay raise and the right to negotiate separately from other city employees are part of a “compromise” one-year agreement between the city of Warren and the Warren Police Association.

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. takes off an open hearth at its Brier Hill Works, leaving Youngstown district mills operating nine blast furnaces, 18 open hearths, two BOF shops and seven electric furnaces, the lowest level of operations in nearly three years.

1965: Use of the Salk vaccine has cut the number of polio cases from 58 in 1955 to none a decade later, reports Atty. Robert Manchester, chairman of the Mahoning County Chapter of the National Polio Foundation.

Susan Davies of Poland is voted “Miss Student Nurse of Akron,” representing Akron City Hospital’s nursing school in a statewide contest.

1940: The meowing of Georgette, a pet Persian cat that later died in the flames, is credited with saving the lives of five Austintown residents when their home was destroyed by fire. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Fowler and their daughter Feryne, 17, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mottern escaped from the house.

Former Mayor and Mrs. Lionel Evans return from a three-month sojourn in Florida, where they went immediately after Mr. Evans left office.

Emmanuel Boehner, a Philadelphia newsstand dealer, pays his wife’s $50 bill at Osteopathic Hospital with 1,000 nickels.