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Today is Sunday, April 10, the 101st day of 2016. There are 265 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1790: President George Washington signs the first United States Patent Act.

1866: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is incorporated.

1925: The novel “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age evocation of empty materialism, shattered illusion and thwarted romance, is first published by Scribner’s of New York.

1932: German President Paul Von Hindenburg is re-elected in a runoff, with Adolf Hitler coming in second.

1947: Brooklyn Dodgers President Branch Rickey purchases the contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals.

1953: The 3-D horror movie “House of Wax,” starring Vincent Price, premieres in New York.

1985: Singer Madonna launches “The Virgin Tour” with a concert at the Paramount Theater in Seattle.

1998: The Northern Ireland peace talks conclude as negotiators reach a landmark settlement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks.

2010: Polish President Lech Kaczynski, 60, is killed in a plane crash in western Russia that also claims the lives of his wife and top Polish political, military and church officials.

Hundreds of thousands of people demanding U.S. citizenship for immigrants who are in the country illegally take to the streets in dozens of cities from New York to San Diego.

French President Jacques Chirac caves in to protesters, canceling a law on youth employment that had fueled nationwide unrest.

2011: In the first remarks since his ouster, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denies allegations that he had used his position to amass wealth and property.

Bob Dylan performs a concert in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

Charl Schwartzel wins the Masters by two strokes over Adam Scott and Jason Day.

2015: During the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Nashville, Tenn., a succession of potential Republican presidential rivals sling criticism and crack jokes about Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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1991: Youngstown’s experiment with passenger train service is paying off with the Broadway Limited picking up twice as many passengers as had been expected on its early morning stops. There were 3,521 passengers between Nov. 4 and March 31.

The number of workers paying Youngstown income tax dropped 44 percent between 1980 and 1991, causing an estimated loss of $7 million a year in city revenues.

Five-year-old Teralynn Landis, the Youngstown tot who has undergone three liver transplants, is a guest of first lady Barbara Bush at the White House to mark National Organ and Tissue Donor Week.

1976: Mahoning County commissioners meet with John Masternick, operator of Windsor House nursing homes, to discuss the possibility of leasing the county nursing home to Masternick. The nursing home faces a $1 million deficit.

Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter vetoes a resolution approved by city council to terminate the city’s sponsorship of the Areawide Agency for Aging and naming the Eastgate Development and Transportation Authority as the new sponsor.

Garrettsville’s main employer, Polson Rubber Co., announces that it will transfer its manufacturing facilities to Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas. The company has been manufacturing inner tubes for trucks, buses and autos since 1925 in Garrettsville and employs 470.

1966: The annual spring surge of new car sales brings surprisingly large March sales, indicating that 1966 may be the second consecutive 9-million-plus auto production year.

Maurice E. Jones, superintendent of Western Reserve schools for eight years, is named assistant superintendent of Canfield schools. He is a graduate of Youngstown University and holds a master’s degree from Kent State University.

Richard James, vice president and general manager of Radio Station WBBW of Youngstown and an elder of Boardman Christian Church, speaks at the Easter sunrise service.

1941: Charles Atkinson, director of adult education, and James Williams Jr., Youngstown College employment secretary, complain that they have an employment problem in reverse as local plants and businesses are clamoring for young employees fresh from campus and classroom.

Ruth Beecher and Ethel Evans of South High School faculty are spending the week in Washington, D.C., attending a meeting of the Institute of National Government for social studies teachers to advance education in citizenship.

More than 100 boys participated in the annual kite contest held at Victory Field under the auspices of the Greater Youngstown Recreation Association.