YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, April 21, the 111th day of 2015. There are 254 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1789: John Adams is sworn in as the first vice president of the United States.

1910: Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, dies in Redding, Conn., at age 74.

1918: Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the “Red Baron,” is killed in action during World War I.

1930: A fire breaks out inside the overcrowded Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, killing 332 inmates.

1940: The quiz show that asks the “$64 question,” “Take It or Leave It,” premieres on CBS Radio.

1955: The Jerome Lawrence-Robert Lee play “Inherit the Wind,” inspired by the Scopes trial of 1925, opens at the National Theatre in New York.

1960: Brazil inaugurates its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.

1975: With Communist forces closing in, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after nearly 10 years in office and flees the country.

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1990: An Ohio trucker is fined $1,540 after his truck scatters along U.S. Route 224 in Union Township, Pa., some of its load being taken to the Browning Ferris Industries Carbon Limestone landfill in Poland Township. The load, which originated in New Jersey, contained syringes, bloody bandages and bags of medicine.

James P. Tressel, Youngs-town State University head football coach, will be the speaker at the National Day of Prayer Breakfast at Packard Music Hall in Warren.

Marking Earth Day, students at Paul C. Bunn School plant a tree in memory of Katie Mackey, a classmate who died.

1975: Professional burglars burn open a vault at the Struthers Post Office, but leave empty-handed after failing to open a safe inside that contained a large amount of money and stamps.

Two burglars escape after a running gunbattle with Columbiana Village Patrolman Earle Hershman, 32, who surprised the two in the J&E Record Shop at 157 S. Main St.

Coming to the Idora Park Ballroom for Mother’s Day: Guy Lombardo and his band.

1965: The Mahoning County Medical Society unanimously agrees to ask the Ohio State Medical Association for a resolution urging its members not to participate in Medicare.

The Ohio Senate passes a bill requiring Ohioans to have their automobiles safety inspected twice a year at an annual cost of $4.

Congressman Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown, chairman of the Democ ratic Congressional Campaign Committee, will be honored at a $100-a-plate dinner in Washington, D.C., in June.

1940: Attorney James E. Bennett will direct the Community Chest campaign for the second straight year.

Youngstown’s newest high school, Woodrow Wilson, introduces its concert band to the public during a radio program on WFMJ.

Dr. Marguerite G. Stemmermann, resident physician at the Mahoning County tuberculosis Sanatorium, took a vacation to India in 1935, which turned into a three-year survey of tuberculosis in Balrampure, an Indian state.

The Youngstown YMCA swimming team defeats a strong Butler, Pa., Y, 38-28, at the local YMCA pool.