YEARS AGO

YEARs AGO

Today is Friday, April 1, the 92nd day of 2016. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fools’ Day.

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On this date in:

1789: The U.S. House of Representatives has its first full meeting in New York; Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania is elected the first House speaker.

1891: The Wrigley Co. is founded in Chicago by William Wrigley Jr.

1924: Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich.

1933: Nazi Germany stages a daylong national boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.

1945: American forces launch the amphibious invasion of Okinawa during World War II. (U.S. forces succeeded in capturing the Japanese island June 22.)

1954: The United States Air Force Academy is established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

1962: The Katherine Anne Porter novel “Ship of Fools,” an allegory about the rise of Nazism in Germany, is published by Little, Brown & Co.

1970: President Richard M. Nixon signs a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and television, to take effect after Jan. 1, 1971.

1972: The first Major League Baseball players’ strike begins; it lasts 12 days.

1976: Apple Computer is founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

The federally created Consolidated Rail Corp. (Conrail for short) begins operations in the Northeastern U.S. (it was taken over in 1999 by CSX and Norfolk Southern).

1984: Recording star Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father, Marvin Gay Sr. in Los Angeles, the day before his 45th birthday. (The elder Gay pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and received probation.)

2006: Former hostage Jill Carroll arrives in Germany, where the freelance American journalist strongly disavows statements she had recorded during her captivity in Iraq and shortly after her release, saying she’d been threatened repeatedly.

2011: Afghans angry over the burning of a Quran at a small Florida church storm a U.N. compound in northern Afghanistan, killing seven foreigners, including four Nepalese guards.

Jimmer Fredette was named The Associated Press player of the year after leading the nation in scoring and BYU to one of its best basketball seasons; Notre Dame’s Mike Brey was named coach of the year.

2015: Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is charged with accepting nearly $1 million worth of gifts and travel from a longtime friend in exchange for a stream of political favors on the donor’s behalf; a defiant Menendez, maintaining his innocence, declares he is “not going anywhere.”

Eleven former Atlanta public-school educators are convicted of racketeering for their role in a cheating scheme to inflate students’ scores on standardized exams.

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1991: John Foster, education and employment director for the Youngstown Urban League, says he is looking for new and creative ways to solve long-standing problems in the minority community, from helping students to prepare for ACT and SAT tests to helping adults find employment.

Mahoning and Shenango valley police officers are sympathetic to Youngstown Police Chief Randall Wellington’s recently stated willingness to open a dialogue about legalizing drugs but that they don’t believe society is ready for legalization.

Mahoning Valley rackets figure Orland Carabbia pleads guilty to charges of gambling and bribery before Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Wyatt McKay, who sentenced him to two years in the Lima Correctional Institution.

1976: FBI agents arrest a Brownlee Woods man on a charge of aiding and abetting a $98,000 holdup of the Southern Park Branch of Dollar Savings & Trust Co. the weekend before Christmas. A Chicago man is being sought in the robbery.

Ralph Gaudio, 53, of Youngstown, a suspected drug peddler, is apprehended by federal drug agents in Tucson, Ariz.

Eight Mahoning Valley steel mills that were exempted from complying with 1977 water standards by the Environmental Protection Agency will still be expected to fully comply with mandates of the 1970 Clean Air Act.

1966: Law-enforcement officers from six counties will meet in Ravenna to explore the possibility of establishing a police academy to serve departments in Mahoning, Trumbull, Ashtabula, Lake, Portage and Geauga counties.

School-owned property on Sharon’s South Side will be the site of a proposed community ice- skating rink.

Pfc. Leonard S. Hauserman of Poland Township is killed when a grenade exploded while he was trying to recover it after it was dropped while troops were exiting a helicopter in a Vietnam war zone.

1941: County officials say they are satisfied that there was no attempt at sabotage when a 17-year-old Struthers boy flew a wire kite line over a 60,000-volt power line, short-circuiting wires that fed the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Republic Steel Corp. plants.

The Mahoning County Tuberculosis Association trustees refuse to accept a $32,000 cut in the 1941 budget and warn Mahoning County commissioners that unless additional money is provided the tuberculosis hospital will have to close.

With the closing of the Cedar Street incinerator for repairs, city garbage is being hauled to the Lansdowne Field area for burying. Residents in the area say they will seek an injunction to stop the practice.