YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Wednesday, April 13, the 104th day of 2016. There are 262 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1613: Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, is captured by English Capt. Samuel Argall in the Virginia Colony. (During a yearlong captivity, Pocahontas converted to Christianity and ultimately opted to stay with the English.)

1861: At the start of the Civil War, Fort Sumter in South Carolina falls to Confederate forces.

1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C., on the 200th anniversary of the third American president’s birth.

1964: Sidney Poitier becomes the first black performer in a leading role to win an Academy Award for his performance in “Lilies of the Field.”

1970: Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, is crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen bursts. (The astronauts managed to return safely.)

1992: The Great Chicago Flood takes place as the city’s century-old tunnel system and adjacent basements fill with water from the Chicago River.

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1991: Lordstown school officials ask General Motors to reconsider its request for a hefty reduction in the tax valuation of the Lordstown Plant that they say could cost the district $500,000 a year and cripple the school district.

Authorities have not yet identified the mother of a baby abandoned in the chapel of St. Elizabeth Hospital, but Kenneth Cazin, director of the Children Services Board, says if the mother changes her mind, the agency will work with her.

1976: Mahoning County Sheriff Ray T. Davis, appearing in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to answer contempt of court charges, admits to six violations of rules governing the operation of a jail. Judge Clyde Osborne dismisses 17 other charges and delays imposition of a sentence.

A 21-year-old Hylda Avenue man is charged with aiding and abetting in the robbery of the Union National Bank Canfield Branch after FBI agents picked him up near where Youngstown police recovered the purported getaway car.

About 1,000 students who qualified for Ohio Instructional Grants to attend Youngstown State University in 1976-77 probably won’t receive their scholarships unless the state Legislature allocates additional funds.

1966: The Lordstown Board of Education studies a recommendation from the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Outdoor Recreation that Lordstown Military Reservations’ 500 acres be made into a park, with the exception of 37 acres requested by the school and 11 acres for Reserve training.

Miss Leslie Howard of Poland is awarded the fourth annual scholarship given to the outstanding senior entering education by the Mahoning County Education Association. She will major in history at Kent State University.

Three Mahoning County deputies resign from the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department to take higher-paying jobs at the Lordstown General Motors plant.

1941: Youngstown residents face the need to dispose of their own garbage unless the city is successful in obtaining an injunction to prevent interference with the burial of refuse at the Sheban farm near North Lima.

A “trouble-free” General Electric refrigerator with a stainless-steel freezer is on sale at Strouss-Hirshberg for $122.95, including a five-year protection plan.

First-degree murder charges against Owen Bickel and Harold Cox of Coshocton are withdrawn after police confirm the boys’ alibi, that they were in Pennsylvania when Mrs. Alphonsus Foley, 36-year-old mother of nine, was murdered in Youngstown.