Saturday, April 25, 2015
Today is Saturday, April 25, the 115th day of 2015. There are 250 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1507: A world map produced by German cartographer Martin Waldsee-mueller contains the first recorded use of the term “America,” in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
1915: During World War I, Allied soldiers invade the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war.
1959: The St. Lawrence Seaway opens to shipping.
1964: Vandals saw off the head of the “Little Mermaid” statue in Copen- hagen, Denmark.
1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is deployed in orbit from the space shuttle Discovery.
1995: Show business legend Ginger Rogers dies at age 83.
VINDICATOR FILES
1990: Ronald W. Myers is appointed president and chief executive officer of GF Corp., replacing Ronald R. Anderson in an interim move pending the sale of the company’s assets.
Long Van Phan, a former captain in the South Vietnamese Army, his wife, Duyen Nguyn, and their three children arrive in Youngstown and are living at the Refugee Resettlement Center on Mahoning Avenue.
Ohio State University’s new football coach, John Cooper, speaks at the Youngstown District Purchasing Management Association’s Executive Night at the Metroplex. He says the team’s 1990 goal is to win the Rose Bowl, and he assesses Youngstown area players on the team: Cardinal Mooney’s Mark Pelini and Ursuline’s Bryan Cook are excellent players, LaBrae’s Lenny Hartman is the toughest player on the team and Rich Huffman of Salem is a capable backup to Jeff Ellis, a super tight end.
1975: FBI agents and Youngstown police with 33 search warrants swoop down on known associates of Joey Naples and his numbers world in raids that result in the seizure of money, gambling slips and gambling paraphernalia.
Two brothers, Brian Wright, 4, and Brett, 5, die in a stubborn fire that broke out in their three-story brick duplex on W. Seventh Street in East Liverpool.
Robert E. Williams is elected chairman and chief executive officer of GF Business Equipment, and George B. Moseley of Grand Rapids, Mich., is elected to Williams’ former post of president.
1965: Sixteen applicants take an examination at the Hotel Pick-Ohio for the Mahoning County Welfare director’s post.
FBI agents join Youngstown detectives in an attempt to solve the theft of an estimated $50,000 in sample diamonds from a trunk at the Greyhound Bus Terminal at 529 W. Federal St.
Youngstown Steel Door Co.’s $2 million expansion program at its Henricks Road plant will be completed in 1965, President Emmett P. Dowling tells shareholders during a meeting in Cleveland.
1940: New agitation for construction of a $200 million canal linking Lake Erie and the Ohio River through the Mahoning Valley develops in Congress, despite a general assumption that the proposal was dead.
The Ohio Supreme Court rules that osteopaths may seek the office of coroner as “licensed physicians” and orders the Darke County board of elections to accept the petitions of Clarence D. Kester for the May primary ballot.
Frank Andrew Snyderwine, 10, dies in Buhl Hospital of injuries suffered when he chased a baseball into the path of a car in the Sharon-Mercer Highway. He, his father and another boy were playing catch when the ball rolled into the road.