YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, April 2, the 93rd day of 2016. There are 273 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1792: Congress passes the Coinage Act, which authorizes establishment of the U.S. Mint.

1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va., because of advancing Union forces.

1917: President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, “The world must be made safe for democracy.” (Congress declared war four days later.)

1932: Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh and John F. Condon go to a cemetery in The Bronx, N.Y., where Condon turns over $50,000 to a man in exchange for Lindbergh’s kidnapped son. (The child, who was not returned, was found dead the following month.)

1942: Glenn Miller and his orchestra record “American Patrol” at RCA Victor studios in Hollywood.

1982: Several thousand troops from Argentina seize the disputed Falkland Islands, located in the south Atlantic, from Britain. (Britain seized the islands back the following June.)

2005: Pope John Paul II dies in his Vatican apartment at age 84.

2006: Tornadoes kill 23 people in Tennessee and four others in the South and Midwest.

2011: Highly radioactive water leaks into the sea from a crack at Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant; meanwhile, earthquake-tsunami survivors complain that the government is not paying enough heed to victims.

2015: Capping a week of difficult negotiations, the United States, Iran and five other world powers say they have agreed on an outline of limits on Iran’s nuclear program that will prevent it from developing nuclear weapons in exchange for sanctions relief.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Gina Sabulsky of Brookfield, a dispatcher in the Niles Police Department, files a complaint with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission claiming that a requirement that she live in the city amounts to sexual discrimination because other city employees, most of them men, have been permitted to live outside the city.

After becoming the subject of two lawsuits, the proposed merger of Trumbull Savings and Loan Co. and Ohio Bancorp is called off.

General Motors Corp., which topped the list of earning giants with $126 billion in sales in 1990, is nevertheless left off Forbes magazine’s list of the 50 most powerful companies in America.

1976: Youngstown Finance Director Charles Ramsey says the city should dispose of the municipal airport and Lake Milton as a means of relieving demands on the city’s revenues.

The Mahoning County Democratic Executive Committee endorses Rep. James V. Stanton for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate over Howard Metzenbaum by a vote of 74 to 24.

A dynamite explosion blows a hole in the wall of Ohio Fast Freight Inc. on Cedar Street in New Castle, Pa.

1966: Snow followed by wind gusts of up to 54 mph are recorded at Youngstown Municipal Airport. There were fallen trees and scattered power disruptions, but little real damage.

A Ku Klux Klan rally scheduled at Edinburg in Portage County is canceled after the owner of the 5-acre parcel where the meeting was to take place said the group misrepresented the intended use of the land and that Klansmen would be charged with trespassing if they attempted to assemble.

Leaders of seven Protestant churches with a combined membership of 25 million plan to unite. One bishop says unification may take 50 years. The churches are United Presbyterian, Methodist, Disciples of Christ, Evangelical United Brethren, United Church of Christ and African Methodist Episcopal.

1941: March was the coldest March in the 49 years that weather records have been kept in the area. The average temperature was 29.6 degrees.

Youngstown City Council’s “rebel” bloc plans to revise its $135,000 “pork barrel” bond issue by reducing the W. Rayen Avenue widening project from $22,000 to $14,000 and adding the widening of Burlington Avenue.

Mahoning County Sheriff Ralph Elser says that a cruiser parked alongside the county jail with 1940 license plates doesn’t need 1941 plates because it is 6 years old, has 155,000 miles on it and “just gave out.” Elser says the cruisers are in such bad shape that he will order bikes if money isn’t put into new cars.