Thursday, April 21, 2016
Today is Thursday, April 21, the 112th day of 2016. There are 254 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1926: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is born in Mayfair, London; she is the first child of The Duke and Duchess of York, who later would become King George VI and the Queen Mother. Christened Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, the princess became monarch upon the death of her father in 1952, beginning a 64-year-old reign surpassing that of Queen Victoria.
1649: The Maryland Toleration Act, providing for freedom of worship for all Christians, is passed by the Maryland assembly.
1789: John Adams is sworn in as the first vice president of the U.S.
1816: Charlotte Bronte, author of “Jane Eyre,” is born in Thornton, England.
1836: An army of Texans led by Sam Houston defeats the Mexicans at San Jacinto, assuring Texas independence.
1910: Author Samuel Lang- horne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, dies in Redding, Conn., at age 74.
1930: Fire breaks out inside the overcrowded Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, killing 332 inmates.
1955: The Jerome Lawrence-Robert Lee play “Inherit the Wind,” inspired by the Scopes trial of 1925, opens at the National Theatre in New York.
1960: Brazil inaugurates its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.
1976: Clinical trials of the swine-flu vaccine begin in Washington, D.C.
1986: A rediscovered vault in Chicago’s Lexington Hotel that is linked to Al Capone is opened during a widely watched live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera; aside from a few bottles and a sign, the vault is empty.
1996: Oddsmaker Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder dies in Las Vegas at age 77.
2006: Nouri al-Maliki is nominated by the Shiites as Iraq’s prime minister after outgoing Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari gives up his bid for another term.
2011: President Barack Obama announces the Justice Department is assembling a team to “root out any cases of fraud or manipulation” in oil markets that might be contributing to $4 a gallon-plus gasoline prices.
2015: An Egyptian criminal court sentences ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison over the killing of protesters in 2012.
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1976: Ohio Bell Telephone Co. begins work on a $2.8 million project on the West Side to improve service for customers on the Sweetbrier exchange.
A gunman who tried to walk out of the Little Shopper Food Market on Youngstown-Hubbard Road carrying the cash register is knocked to the ground by a can of pineapple thrown by the manager and then knocked out with a punch. The robber was taken to North Side Hospital for treatment and then to the Trumbull County Jail.
Carmela Rosa is given a 10-day suspended jail sentence by Municipal Judge Lloyd Haynes after he pleaded guilty to cutting down a basketball hoop at the Harrison Playground. Rosa said he had complained for years about rowdy groups using the basketball hoop, and decided to take matters into his own hands when the parks department ignored him.
1966: The Community Action Program applies for $396,000 in federal funds for comprehensive neighborhood centers on Youngstown’s East and South sides and in Campbell and Sebring.
Shutrump United Enterprises goes to court to block Edward J. DeBartolo from building Kirkmere Plaza on a large Canfield Road site. Since 1958, courts have twice overruled City Council’s rezoning the property from residential to commercial.
David Jenkins, a construction appraiser and inspector for First Federal Savings & Loan Association, is elected president of the Youngstown Chapter of the American Savings & Loan Institute.
1941: Under the direction of Walter Watson, more than 1,000 “good neighbors” meet at the Central YMCA to launch Youngstown’s 23rd annual Community Chest Campaign, which supports 28 social agencies.
Central States Engineering Co., a garbage-disposal contractor, will repair three furnaces at the city incinerator, if city council approves. Meanwhile, the city is having the M. DeBartolo Co. dump refuse near the incinerator.
William H. Marinelli is the president of Mill Creek’s Hole-in-One Club for 1941. The honor goes to the first golfer to score an ace on the course. He shot 91 for 18 holes, sinking his tee shot of the eighth hole.