YEARS AGO

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On this date in:

1616: English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare, 52, dies on what has been traditionally regarded as the anniversary of his birth in 1564.

1789:President-elect George Washington and his wife, Martha, move into the first executive mansion, the Franklin House, in New York.

1791: The 15th president of the United States, James Buchanan, is born in Franklin County, Pa.

1910: Former President Theodore Roosevelt delivers his famous “Man in the Arena” speech at the Sorbonne in Paris.

1914: Chicago’s Wrigley Field, then called Weeghman Park, hosts its first major league game as the Chicago Federals defeat the Kansas City Packers 9-1.

1935: Poland adopts a constitution which gives new powers to the presidency.

1940: About 200 people die in the Rhythm Night Club Fire in Natchez, Miss.

1954: Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hits the first of his 755 major-league home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. (The Braves won, 7-5.)

1965: The Four Tops’ single “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” is released by Motown.

1985: The Coca-Cola Co. announces it is changing the secret flavor formula for Coke (negative public reaction forced the company to resume selling the original version).

1995: Television sportscaster Howard Cosell dies in New York at age 77.

2007: Boris Yeltsin, the first freely elected Russian president, dies in Moscow at age 76.

2005: Leaders of China and Japan meet in Jakarta, Indonesia, to try to settle their nations’ worst dispute in three decades, but fail to reach an agreement in the bitter feud over Tokyo’s handling of its World War II atrocities.

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1990: A student advisory committee at Youngstown State University says students are opposed to a proposed 20 percent increase in spending for intercollegiate athletics and recommends an increase of less than 1 percent.

For the second year in a row, Mahoning County Democratic Chairman Don L. Hanni Jr. is paying a price for his verbal attacks on state Democratic Chairman James M. Ruvulo — he will not be doling out any part-time summer jobs from the Ohio Department of Transportation.

Ohio Gov. Richard F. Celeste names Martin J. O’Connell, president of the Greater Youngstown AFL-CIO, to a nine-year term on the Youngstown State University board of trustees.

1975: Two area students are among 1,006 high school seniors throughout the nation named winners of National Merit $1,000 scholarships: Andrea Holliday, a senior at Canfield High School; and Ronald J. Gizzi, a senior at Howland High School.

Despite a soft market for steel, Lykes-Youngstown Corp. reports sharply higher earnings for the first quarter over a year earlier, with net income of $18.8 million on sales of $428 million.

A group of students at East High School comes to the rescue of a teacher who was attacked and knocked to the ground by a 15-year-old female student who had been suspended for truancy.

1965: More than 650 Youngstown area business and civic leaders salute Alfred S. Glossbrenner, president and chief executive officer of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., for his distinguished service to the Mahoning Valley industrial region.

The Shriver-Allison Co. announces the purchase of the Handel Funeral Home at 292 W. Madison Ave.

Youngstown district steel plants will operate at 81 percent of capacity, with 15 blast furnaces, 53 open hearths, 10 electric furnaces and one basic oxygen furnace in operation.

1940: Mayor William B. Spagnola cuts the ribbon for the Youngstown Home Show at the Rayen-Wood Auditorium.

An ordinance creating the position of superintendent of the municipal airport at Vienna and setting his salary at $4,500 a year is submitted to Youngstown City Council.

Four warrants for the arrest of Congressman Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown are issued by a justice of the peace in Ashtabula County charging that Kirwan collected $50 from the Geneva postmaster for campaign expenses and alleging that the congressman retaliated against another postmaster who didn’t contribute.