YEARS AGO
Today is Tuesday, April 14, the 104th day of 2015. There are 261 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1775: The first American society for the abolition of slavery is formed in Philadelphia.
1828: The first edition of Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language is published.
1865: President Abraham Lincoln is shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington.
1890: The First International Conference of American States, meeting in Washington, D.C., agrees to form the International Union of American Republics, a forerunner of the Organization of American States.
1912: The British liner RMS Titanic collides with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship’s time and begins sinking. (The ship went under two hours and 40 minutes later with the loss of 1,514 lives.)
1935: The “Black Sunday” dust storm descends upon the central Plains, turning a sunny afternoon into total darkness.
1939: The John Steinbeck novel “The Grapes of Wrath” is first published by Viking Press.
1949: The “Wilhelmstrasse Trial” in Nuremberg ends with 19 former Nazi Foreign Office officials sentenced by an American tribunal to prison terms ranging from four to 25 years.
1956: Ampex Corp. demonstrates the first practical videotape recorder at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters Convention in Chicago.
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1990: The FBI arrests a New Castle, Pa., woman and her estranged husband in connection with a plot to kill Lawrence County Common Pleas Judge Glenn McCracken; a Children’s Service caseworker, Kathy Thompson, and an ex-husband of the woman are being charged.
Two Japanese students from Sophia University in Tokyo touring the United States stop at Youngstown State University where they debate the issue of trade laws between the two countries and U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant’s call for trade sanctions. Bill Bailey and Mitch Goodrich argued the U.S. side of the issue.
Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins says a lawsuit filed by a former assistant prosecutor, Patrick Donlin, seeking $30,000 for accumulated sick leave and vacation time is so baseless that Donlin should have to pay Watkins’ legal fees.
1975: A Lowellville couple drowns in the Tuscarawas River while riding horses with 10 other people. Joann Nichols, 27, fell from her horse and James Nichols, 32, jumped into the water to save her.
Congress is considering a bill to boost employment in the depressed auto industry by authorizing the federal government to buy 121,000 cars and trucks, replacing virtually all its nationwide fleet.
Rosemary Durkin, assistant clerk for Youngstown Municipal Court, is honored as “Woman of the Year” of the John F. Kennedy Federated Democratic Women of Mahoning County.
1965: Alan E. Shobe, a compressor operator for the Huber, Hunt and Nichols Construction Co., is crushed to death by a slag dump truck while working a the construction site of the new General Motors Corp. plant in Lordstown.
Mahoning County farmers agree to reduce feed grain production in 1965 by 6,032 acres, says L.L. Moff, chairman of the Mahoning County Stabilization and Conservation Committee.
1940: L. W. Sherman, in charge of the county experimental farm in Canfield, says the county’s peach crop will probably suffer most from recent cold temperatures, but it is too early to tell what will happen to the apple crop.
More than 400 boys from New Castle Senior High School are seeking admittance to the trade school that the board of education will reopen after being closed for eight years.
A new St. Rose Church will be constructed at N. State and Main streets in Girard at a cost of $95,000.
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