YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, April 22, the 113th day of 2016. There are 253 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday Passover begins at sunset.

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On this date in:

1616: Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes, author of “Don Quixote,” dies in Madrid.

1864: Congress authorizes the use of the phrase “In God We Trust” on U.S. coins.

1946: Harlan F. Stone, chief justice of the United States, dies in Washington, D.C., at age 73.

1954: The publicly televised sessions of the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings begin.

1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson opens the New York World’s Fair.

1970: Millions of Americans concerned about the environment observe the first “Earth Day.”

1994: Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, dies at a New York hospital four days after suffering a stroke; he was 81.

1996: Homemaker humorist Erma Bombeck dies in San Francisco at age 69.

2000: In a dramatic pre-dawn raid, armed immigration agents seize Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of a custody dispute, from his relatives’ home in Miami; Elian is reunited with his father at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington.

2015: A federal judge in Philadelphia approves a settlement agreement expected to cost the NFL $1 billion over 65 years to resolve thousands of concussion lawsuits.

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1991: The Columbus Dispatch reports that credit-card receipts place a Florida trucker at an Austintown truck stop on dates when three women disappeared. A police task force is investigating the deaths of 11 women in five states along or near interstate highways in Ohio.

Mahoning County officials say nearly half of the $8 million income from a 0.5-percent increase in the county sales tax will go to operation of the county jail.

A study by Citizens for Tax Justice, a labor-backed group, shows that middle-income families pay proportionately more of their earnings in state and local taxes than do the richest Americans.

1976: U.S. Sen. Robert Taft Jr. announces a $3 million loan guarantee to Goodwill Industries of Youngstown to build 100 housing units for the disabled on Belmont Ave.

City Councilmen Herman “Pete” Starks and Robert G. Spencer voice their strong opposition to a proposal by the administration that $10,000 be spent for shrubbery, flowers and maintenance equipment for the Federal Plaza pedestrian mall in downtown Youngstown.

Republic Steel Corp. agrees to make $60 million in improvements at four Ohio plants to comply with Ohio Environmental Protection Agency air-quality regulations.

1966: The greatest enemy the nation has is not communism, but laziness, Calvin D. Johnson, former congressman and nationally known speaker tells about 300 people attending the Youngstown District Purchasing Agents Association meeting at the Hotel Pick-Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Catsoules of Youngstown, who were among the 200 drivers who test-drove a turbine-powered Chrysler, say they thoroughly enjoyed the three months they had the car. Catsoules is a social studies teacher at Rayen.

Mr. and Mrs. William Martin of East Palestine purchase the Gilson Bakery on North Market Street, which has been in business for 22 years.

1941: Youngstown firemen book Ted Weems and his nationally known band featuring singer Perry Como for the fifth- annual benefit dance at Idora Park.

Six Youngstown youths win coveted U.S. Army flying cadet scholarships. They are Albert Berdelman, Walter S. Flores, Raymond V. Gombossy, James M. Kaiser, Stephen Poleschuk and Martin R. Walsh.

Gale-strength winds and heavy rain and hail force postponement of the Youngstown District PGA golf tournament at the Mahoning Country Club.