YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, April 11, the 102nd day of 2016. There are 264 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1689: William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.

1865: President Abraham Lincoln speaks to a crowd outside the White House, saying, “We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.” (It was the last public address Lincoln would deliver.)

1921: Iowa becomes the first state to impose a cigarette tax, at 2 cents a package.

1945: During World War II, American soldiers liberate the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany.

1951: President Harry S. Truman relieves Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his commands in the Far East.

1965: Dozens of tornadoes rake six Midwestern states on Palm Sunday, killing 271 people.

1970: Apollo 13, with astronauts James A. Lovell, Fred W. Haise and Jack Swigert, blast off on its ill-fated mission to the moon.

1989:Mexican officials begin unearthing the remains of victims of a drug-trafficking cult near Matamoros; one of the dead was University of Texas student Mark Kilroy, who had disappeared while on spring break. (Several cult members were later convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to 50 years in prison.)

1991: The musical “Miss Saigon,” which sparked controversy over charges it was racist and sexist, opens on Broadway.

1996: Seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff, who’d hoped to become the youngest person to fly cross-country, is killed along with her father and flight instructor when her plane crashes after takeoff from Cheyenne, Wyo.

Frank Sinatra records the song “Strangers in the Night” for his label, Reprise Records.

2006: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that his country had succeeded in enriching uranium on a small scale for the first time.

2015: President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raoul Castro sit down together on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas in Panama City in the first formal meeting of the two countries’ leaders in half a century.

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1991: General Motors and Ford appear to be on track to move from concept to production of electric vehicles in the 1993 production year.

An attempt to legislate minority quotas for Warren municipal construction contracts is discarded after Mayor Daniel Sferra says he will appoint an Equal Employment Opportunity officer to promote participation of minority contractors.

Dollar Savings and Trust Co. names Atty. Paul M. Dutton and Douglas V. Sweeney, general manager of State Chevrolet, to its board of directors.

1976: GF Business Equipment of Youngstown is awarded a $1.9 million contract by the General Services Administration for desks and desktop carrels.

Nathaniel R. Jones, a former Youngstown lawyer who is general counsel for the NAACP, will be the keynote speaker at the 46th annual dinner dance of the Warren-Trumbull Urban League.

Consultants estimate that $52 million will have to be spent in the Youngstown area between 1978 and 1983 on sewage treatment to meet 1983 federal pollution standards.

1966: A Boy Scout team from Troop 56 paints “Look” warnings on the sidewalk at downtown Youngstown intersections as part of their annual pedestrian safety program.

Five Poland High School girls are chosen to attend Buckeye Girls State in Columbus. They are Darian Faull, Paula Jean Hoeck, Sue Hojer, Linda Hess and Julie Chaplin.

Mrs. Stanley E. Engel is appointed local chairwoman for Hadassah’s fifth-annual regional conference to take place at the Voyager Motor Inn. The Youngstown Chapter of Hadassah has more than 1,000 members.

1941: Crude oil escaping from a break in an Illinois Pipe Line Co. transcontinental pipeline in Trumbull County catches fire on the surface of a creek flowing into Girard Lake. Plumes of dark smoke are seen for several miles.

A new concrete stadium that would seat 1,500 is planned by the Boardman Board of Education.

Three Youngstown lieutenants are assigned from Fort Knox, Ky., to the First Armored Division: Paul W. Brown, Wayne G. Ritter and Theodore Dastoli.