YEARS AGO
Today is Monday, April 20, the 110th day of 2015. There are 255 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1314: Pope Clement V, the first of the Avignonese popes, dies at Roquemaure, France.
1792: France declares war on Austria, marking the start of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1861: Col. Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army. (Lee goes on to command the Army of Northern Virginia, and eventually becomes general-in-chief of the Confederate forces.)
1863: President Abraham Lincoln signs a proclamation admitting West Virginia to the Union, effective in 60 days (on June 20, 1863).
1889: Adolf Hitler is born in Braunau am Inn, Austria.
1912: Boston’s Fenway Park hosts its first professional baseball game while Navin Field (Tiger Stadium) opens in Detroit. (The Red Sox defeated the New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11 innings; the Tigers beat the Cleveland Naps 6-5 in 11 innings.)
1914: The Ludlow Massacre takes place when the Colorado National Guard opens fire on a tent colony of striking miners; about 20 (accounts vary) strikers, women and children die.
1945: During World War II, allied forces take control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart.
1968:Pierre Elliott Trudeau is sworn in as prime minister of Canada.
1972: Apollo 16’s lunar module, carrying astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr., lands on the moon.
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1990: Youngstown Municipal Judge Louis K. Levy places two 18-year-old Youngstown men on probation after they pleaded guilty to attempted trafficking in drugs but requires them to graduate from high school within a year or face jail time.
Harris Wofford, Pennsylvania secretary of Labor and Industry, speaks at a workers’ compensation seminar at the Sheraton Inn Shenango. He says efforts are being made to make the system more efficient so that it doesn’t have to reduce the maximum benefit of $419 a week.
Capt. Donald Goodman, an East Liverpool native, is promoted to the rank of major and named commandant of the Ohio Highway Patrol Academy in Columbus.
1975: Debbie Cappella, a senior at Girard High School, is elected by the student body to serve as mayor of the 26th annual Civic Day during which students assume municipal and school offices for a day.
Dr. John D. Van Norman, YSU associate professor of chemistry, and William D. Gennaro, head of the Division of Cybernetics at the Youngstown Hospital Association, develop a new method for the assay of insulin antibodies of blood by using radioisotopes for insulin-treated diabetic patients.
Edgar G. Speer, chairman of the board of United States Steel, is honored as “King of the Realm” at the 13th annual Baseball Town USA Oldtimers Banquet at the Sokol Hall.
1965: Dr. J.H. Wanamaker, superintendent of Youngstown schools, and Mayor Anthony B. Flask will head teams of Board of Education members and urban renewal authorities to consider alternative uses for Butler School in the River Bend district that is slated for demolition.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Fixler of 222 Oregon St. NW, Warren, are killed in a three-car crash near Okeechobel during a Florida vacation trip.
Ronald Block, secretary-treasurer of the Mahoning Valley Distributing Agency, largest distributor of paperback books in the area, promises to cooperate with Youngstown’s new Obscenity Review Board.
1940: Youngstown firemen rescue Adam Simons and his 9-year-old son, John, from the second story of their home at 424 Judson Ave. when smoke from a fire in the basement blocked their escape.
Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania are preparing for the worst high-water marks since March 1936, and possibly since January 1913.
School bus drivers in the Youngstown area are warned that they face arrest if they use their school buses as common carriers. Frank Starr of Newton Falls was fined $25 after being arrested by inspectors of the state Public Utilities Commission.