YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, April 28, the 119th day of 2016. There are 247 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1788: Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

1789: There is a mutiny on the HMS Bounty as rebelling crew members of the British ship, led by Fletcher Christian, set the captain, William Bligh, and 18 others adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. (Bligh and most of the men with him reached Timor in 47 days.)

1925: The International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts, which gave rise to the term “Art Deco,” begins a six-month run in Paris.

1945: Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are executed by Italian partisans as they attempt to flee the country.

1952: War with Japan officially ends as a treaty signed in San Francisco the year before it takes effect.

1974: A federal jury in New York acquits former Attorney General John Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans of charges in connection with a secret $200,000 contribution to President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign from financier Robert Vesco.

2015: Urging Americans to “do some soul-searching,” President Barack Obama expresses deep frustration over recurring black deaths at the hands of police, rioters who responded with senseless violence and a society that would only “feign concern” without addressing the root causes.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Twelve state legislators write to the Youngstown State University board of trustees recommending state Sen. Harry Meshel for the job of president of the university. Meshel’s name was not among the six finalists announced by the board.

Brett Godfrey of Newton Falls, an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper for 12 years assigned to the Hiram barracks, is the first member of the OSHP to publicly acknowledge his homosexuality. He says suicide in the gay community is rampant, and he hopes his coming out might help just one person.

U.S. Rep. Douglas Applegate of Steubenville, D-18th, wants the Veterans Administration to conduct a review of health services at the nation’s 172 VA hospitals in light of reports that poor care led to the deaths of eight patients at the North Chicago Medical Center.

1976: Liberty Township police arrest 11 juveniles and 10 adults in a crackdown on widespread drug activities at Liberty High School.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency orders eight cities in Mahoning and Trumbull counties to resume their role in cleaning up the Mahoning River.

Winners of the Youngstown Symphony Society’s annual piano awards competition are Laura Liu, 11; Lori Jean Frost, 12; Michelene J. Morocco, 11; Robert Witt, 14; Irene M. Senedak; Trina Pagano, 13; Dominic Ciarniello, 16; Georgann Vuletich, 16, and Heather MacLaren, 16.

1966: The first car rolls off the assembly line at the General Motors plant at Lordstown, a white, four-door Chevrolet Impala.

Traffic patrolman Joseph Amicarelli of Crandall Avenue, a familiar figure in Central Square, dies at North Side Hospital after a cerebral hemorrhage. He had been on the police force 21 years, mostly in the traffic division.

Gamma Eta Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority will join with 1,500 chapters in observance May 1-7 of “ESA International Week,” Mrs. Donald Oberholdtz, local president in Columbiana, announces.

1941: Edward F. McGrady, special labor consultant to the War Department, tells a Senate committee that if the stoppage of soft coal mining continues, “the entire national defense effort will be in grave jeopardy.”

Al Bagnall has a par 36 to lead golfers at the Poland Country Club. In 18-hole rounds, Jimmy Pipoly had a 76, and Steve Pipoly had a 77.

Fire causes $1,500 damage to the boiler room of the South Side unit of the Youngstown Hospital Association.