YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, April 3, the 94th day of 2016. There are 272 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1776: George Washington receives an honorary doctor of laws degree from Harvard College.

1860: The legendary Pony Express begins carrying mail between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, Calif. (The delivery system lasted only 18 months before giving way to the transcontinental telegraph.)

1865: Union forces occupy the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va.

1882: Outlaw Jesse James is shot to death in St. Joseph, Mo., by Robert Ford, a member of James’ gang.

1936: Bruno Hauptmann is electrocuted in Trenton, N.J., for the kidnap-murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr.

1946: Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander held responsible for the Bataan Death March, is executed by firing squad outside Manila.

1948: President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, designed to help European allies rebuild after World War II and resist communism.

1965: The United States launches the SNAP-10A nuclear power system into Earth orbit; it is the first nuclear reactor sent into space.

1968: The day before he is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous “mountaintop” speech to a rally of striking sanitation workers.

1979: Democrat Jane M. Byrne is elected mayor of Chicago, defeating Republican Wallace D. Johnson.

1985: The landmark Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant closes after 56 years in business.

1991: English novelist Graham Greene dies at age 86.

1996: Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his remote Montana cabin.

Former Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, the first black elected mayor of a major U.S. city, dies at age 68.

2006: Former Liberian President Charles Taylor pleads not guilty before an international war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone, denying he’d helped destabilize West Africa through killings, sexual slavery and sending children into combat. (Taylor was later convicted of all 11 counts against him, and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.)

2011: The United States agrees to NATO’s request for a 48-hour extension of American participation in coalition airstrikes against targets in Libya.

Marine Lance Cpl. Harry Lew fatally shoots himself at a remote Afghanistan patrol base; three Marines are court-martialed for alleged hazing. (Two were acquitted; one pleaded guilty to assault after admitting he’d punched and kicked Lew.)

2015: Information retrieved from the “black box” data recorder of a doomed German airliner shows its co-pilot repeatedly accelerated the plane before it slammed into a French mountainside, killing all 150 people on board.

Pope Francis, presiding at the traditional Good Friday Colosseum procession, decries what he calls the “complicit silence” about the killing of Christians.

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1991: Trumbull County commissioners increase the real-estate transfer tax from 0.3 to 0.4 percent to raise an estimated $200,000 that will be used to fix county buildings.

U.S. Sen. John Glenn says he expects Republicans to make his vote against entering the Persian Gulf War into a campaign issue, but he says he’ll be ready for them. “I’ve been through two wars, and I’ve seen a lot of bodies,” Glenn tells The Vindicator, adding that sanctions against Iraq were working and war was premature.

Ron Daniels of Youngs-town, a possible 1992 presidential candidate, calls for massive civil disobedience to protest the continued plight of blacks, minorities and the disadvantaged.

1976: The city of Canfield comes within two hours of being without water as the city of Youngstown runs out of patience over Canfield’s unpaid $32,898 delinquent water bill. Shortly after Mayor Jack C. Hunter ordered the water valve shut off, Canfield City Manager Chris Paparodis promised that the bill would be paid.

A Mahoning County jury awards Edward L. Kopstoffer $122,566 over his firing by GF Business Equipment, saying the company violated an agreement that Kopstoffer, who was promoted to a management job, could return to the union ranks if he didn’t like his new job.

James M. Adovasio, a former professor at Youngstown State University, receives a grant of $25,520 from the National Geographic Society to expand the University of Pittsburgh’s archeological dig at Avella, Pa., where a campsite of Stone Age men is being excavated.

1966: Plans for Youngs-town’s biggest downtown construction job in many years, Plaza One on the site of the old Palace Theater, are being redrawn to “wrap the project around” the Stambaugh Building on Central Square and take in the whole block.

Youngstown area residents are pouring an increasing volume of money into Florida’s mushrooming real estate and business boom.

Katherine McKelvey Owsley, widow of the late architect Charles Owsley and a member of one of Youngstown’s most prominent families, dies in North Side Hospital. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.M. Mc-Kelvey attended Elm Street School, Rayen School and graduated from Smith College in 1904.

1941: Officials report $50,000 has been subscribed so far in the refinancing of First Baptist Church, built 15 years ago. The goal is to liquidate the church debt.

A banquet at the International Order of Odd Fellows Temple on Boardman Street will honor the lodge’s oldest member, David Shearer, 93, of Wilson Ave., a member for 62 years. George Neffner, former secretary of state, is the speaker.

Carl Morrow, boys physical director at the Youngstown YMCA, accepts a position with the Army and Navy YMCA in Honolulu, Hawaii.