YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, April 5, the 96th day of 2016. There are 270 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1614: Indian Chief Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas marries Englishman John Rolfe in the Virginia Colony.

1621: The Mayflower sails from Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts on a monthlong return trip to England.

1764: Britain’s Parliament passes The American Revenue Act of 1764, also known as The Sugar Act.

1895: Oscar Wilde loses his criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, who’d accused the writer of homosexual practices.

1915: Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in the 26th round of their fight in Havana, Cuba, to claim boxing’s world heavyweight title.

1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order creating the Civilian Conservation Corps and an anti-hoarding order that effectively prohibits private ownership of gold.

1976: During an outdoor demonstration against court-ordered school busing in Boston, a white teenager swings a pole holding an American flag at a black attorney in a scene captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph now known as “The Soiling of Old Glory” that was taken by Stanley Forman of the Boston Herald American.

2006: Duke University’s lacrosse coach resigns, and the school cancels the rest of the season amid a burgeoning controversy involving allegations that three players on the highly ranked team had raped a stripper at an off-campus party. (The rape charges were later dropped and the players exonerated.)

2015: In an Easter peace wish, Pope Francis praises a framework nuclear agreement with Iran as an opportunity to make the world safer, while expressing deep worry about bloodshed in Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa.

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1991: The Lordstown School District stands to lose $384,886 in tax revenue this year if the Trumbull County Board of Tax Revision approves the $41 million decrease in tax valuation sought by General Motors on its Lords-town complex.

U.S. Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., is one of six people killed when his private plane collides with a helicopter near Philadelphia. Heinz, his pilot, two pilots in the helicopter and two schoolchildren struck by debris on the ground were killed.

Biology professor Dr. Lauren Schroeder says that since he arrived at Youngstown State University 10 years ago, he has watched as signs of life returned to the Mahoning River.

1976: Beulah Hawkins, a 69-year-old widow, is found stabbed and beaten to death in her apartment at 940 W. Federal St.

Youngstown detectives are investigating an extortion case that involves the theft and mutilation of a basset hound owned by William F. Tackett, manager of the Park Burlesque Theater. Tackett said he received a phone call demanding money and directing him to an envelope in the theater’s projection room that contained the severed ear of his dog.

St. Elizabeth Hospital opens a new, 6,000-square foot outpatient clinic on the third floor of the South Extension Building.

1966: The Chevrolet Division of General Motors plans to spend about $3 million to repair accelerator defects on 1964-65 Chevelles and other Chevrolets.

March was the biggest sales month in history for all three U.S. automakers. Ford has sold more than a million Mustangs since the car’s introduction in April 1964.

The first of four potted trees are planted on State Street in Sharon , in front of the Protected Home Mutual Life Insurance Building. It is hoped that other downtown merchants will follow suit.

1941: A number of female keglers from the Champion Bowling League are preparing to compete in the Youngstown Women’s Bowling Tournament. they are Ruth Neff, Hazel Crute, Catherine Dornbrock, Loretta Posey, Sophey Miller, Margaret Gabler, Kathryn Roller, Bertha Wolshlag, Alice Leterra, Rose Willock, Mildred Geer and Thelma Jackson.

The St. Dominic team will meet the Immaculate Conception five for the Senior Parochial Basketball League championship.