Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, April 29, the 119th day of 2015. There are 246 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1429: Joan of Arc enters the besieged city of Orleans to lead a French victory over the English.

1798: Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” is rehearsed in Vienna, Austria, before an invited audience.

1861: The Maryland House of Delegates votes 53-13 against seceding from the Union.

In Montgomery, Ala., President Jefferson Davis asks the Confederate Congress for the authority to wage war.

1913: Swedish-born engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, N.J., receives a U.S. patent for a “separable fastener” — later known as the zipper.

1945: During World War II, American soldiers liberate the Dachau concentration camp.

Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun inside his “Fuhrerbunker” and designates Adm. Karl Doenitz president.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: Youngstown City Councilman David Engler, D-5th, proposes that the city hire a coordinator to oversee the use of nonviolent misdemeanants to work off their sentences picking up trash in the city.

Vindicator Society Editor Martha Gagyi retires after a 39-year career at the paper that began as a copy girl. She is succeeded by Barbara Shaffer.

1975: The covered bridge that spans the east branch of the Mahoning River in Newton Falls is entered on the Department of the Interior’s National Registry of Historic Places.

The Diocese of Youngs-town’s six high schools return to normal after a one-day strike by teachers.

1965: David S. Ives, associate professor of humanities, is named chairman of Youngstown University’s department of ancient languages.

Winners of the third annual essay-slogan contest on traffic safety sponsored by the Ohio Department of Highway Safety are Charles A. Stepan, of Erskine Avenue, Boardman, and Judy Hamrock, South Hubbard Road, Lowellville.

1940: Ed Lewis successfully defends his YMCA citywide badminton championship, defeating Morris DeVorkin, 15-8, 15-7.

Rep. Michael J. Kirwan tells 500 supporters of the Townsend Plan at a rally in Central Auditorium that he will support the pension plan because it would allow 10 million older workers to retire while 10 million younger unemployed men and women would get jobs.