YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, April 19, the 110th day of 2016. There are 256 days left in the year.

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1775: The American Revolutionary War begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.

1865: A funeral takes place at the White House for President Abraham Lincoln, assassinated five days earlier; his coffin is then taken to the U.S. Capitol for a private memorial service in the Rotunda.

1912: A special subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee opens hearings in New York into the Titanic disaster.

1935: The Universal Pictures horror film “Bride of Frankenstein,” starring Boris Karloff with Elsa Lanchester in the title role, has its world premiere in San Francisco.

1943: During World War II, tens of thousands of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin a valiant but ultimately futile battle against Nazi forces.

1951: Gen. Douglas MacArthur, relieved of his Far East command by President Harry S. Truman, bids farewell in an address to Congress in which he quotes a line from a ballad: “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.”

1960: South Korean students begin an uprising that would topple the government of President Syngman Rhee a week later.

1966: Bobbi Gibb, 23, becomes the first woman to run the Boston Marathon at a time when only men were allowed to participate. (Gibb jumped into the middle of the pack after the sound of the starting pistol and finished in 3:21:40.)

1975: India launches its first satellite atop a Soviet rocket.

1989: Forty-seven sailors are killed when a gun turret explodes aboard the USS Iowa in the Caribbean. (The Navy initially suspected that a dead crew member had deliberately sparked the blast, but later said there was no proof of that.)

1993: The 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends as fire destroys the structure after federal agents begin smashing their way in; dozens of people, including sect leader David Koresh, are killed.

1995: A truck bomb destroys the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. (Bomber Timothy McVeigh was later convicted of federal murder charges and executed.)

2005: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany is elected pope in the first conclave of the new millennium; he takes the name Benedict XVI.

2006: White House political mastermind Karl Rove surrenders his role as chief policy coordinator, and press secretary Scott McClellan resigns in an escalation of a Bush administration shake-up.

2011: Cuba’s Communist Party picks 79-year-old Raul Castro to replace his ailing brother Fidel as first secretary during a key Party Congress; the 84-year-old Fidel Castro makes a surprise appearance, to thunderous applause from the delegates.

2015: Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, dies a week after suffering a spinal-cord injury in the back of a Baltimore police van while he was handcuffed and shackled; six officers have been charged in connection with Gray’s death.

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1991: Youngstown State University trustees narrow their search for the next president of YSU to Dr. Bernard Gillis, university provost; Atty. Paul M. Dutton, Dr. William Chmurny, Dr. Billy T. Franklin, Dr. Edgar Schick and Dr. Paul F. Weller.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Scott Krichbaum orders County Auditor George Tablack to pay bills submitted by the County’s Mental Retardation and Disabilities board or face going to jail for contempt of court.

A several-week-old orphaned eaglet is placed in a nest on the Mosquito Wildlife Area by Ohio Division of Wildlife officials while the male and female bald eagles occupying the nest are away.

1976: Three people are killed and four injured in a collision of two cars at South Street and Chestnut Avenue in downtown Warren. Dead are William Wimbish, 73, and his wife, Gertrude, 72, both of Warren, and Priscilla Crowder of Cleveland.

During groundbreaking ceremonies, George B. Mosely, president of GF Business Equipment, predicts a revitalized Youngstown operation where employment will increase from 1,200 to 4,000 as the result of construction of a $7 million manufacturing facility adjacent to its North Side plant.

Dr. Eugene D. Dukes, former professor of library and educational media at Bowling Green State University, is named head librarian of the Girard Free Library.

1966: East Palestine City Council considers the Columbiana Metropolitan Housing Authority’s proposal to build 62 units of low-income housing aimed at the elderly

Wean Engineering Co. buys a large block of McKay Machine Co. stock to promote closer cooperation between the two companies, which complement each other.

The Boys’ Ensemble of North Lima School wins a superior rating at the state contest at Kent State University. Members are Steve Gifford, Ken Cooley, David Smith, Mike Takask, John Kurtz, Tim Queen and Don Reed.

1941: Struthers city council members, Mayor William A. Strain and Health Commissioner H.F. Crone launch a program to obtain a garbage incinerator for the city.

Arion Chorus, a group of 70 young singers directed by Gwynne Jenkins, will give their annual concert at South High School auditorium. Guest artists are James Hayden, Pittsburgh baritone; Mrs. Gladys Netzler, local soprano, and Miss Emma Cook, elocutionist.