YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Friday, April 29, the 120th day of 2016. There are 246 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1429: Joan of Arc enters the besieged city of Orleans to lead a French victory over the English.

1798: Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” is rehearsed in Vienna, Austria, before an invited audience.

1861: The Maryland House of Delegates votes 53-13 against seceding from the Union. In Montgomery, Ala., President Jefferson Davis asks the Confederate Congress for the authority to wage war.

1913: Swedish-born engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, N.J., receives a U.S. patent for a “separable fastener” – later known as the zipper.

1916: The Easter Rising in Dublin collapses as Irish nationalists surrender to British authorities.

1945: During World War II, American soldiers liberate the Dachau concentration camp. Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun inside his “Fuhrerbunker” and designates Adm. Karl Doenitz president.

1946: Twenty-eight former Japanese officials go on trial in Tokyo as war criminals; seven end up being sentenced to death.

1957: The SM-1, the first military nuclear-power plant, is dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Va.

1968: The counterculture musical “Hair” opens on Broadway after limited engagements off-Broadway.

1974: President Richard M. Nixon announces he is releasing edited transcripts of some secretly made White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

1983: Harold Washington is sworn in as the first black mayor of Chicago.

1992: Rioting resulting in 55 deaths erupts in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley, Calif., acquits four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.

2006: Tens of thousands of protesters march through lower Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

Liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith dies in Cambridge, Mass., at age 97.

2011: Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton are married in an opulent ceremony at London’s Westminster Abbey amid pomp, circumstance – and elaborate hats.

2015: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offers condolences for Americans killed in World War II in the first address by a Japanese leader to a joint meeting of Congress, but he stops short of apologizing for wartime atrocities.

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1991: Two young Fowler Township men are in satisfactory condition at the Akron Burn Center after being blown off the top of a gas well on Sodom-Hutchings Road. Injured were Bryon Traveling, 18, and Andrew Whitlatch, 19.

In an interview with The Vindicator’s Ron Cole, Todd Hancock says the origins of Easy Street Productions can be traced to his and Maureen Collins’ singing “Easy Street” in a 1984 production of “Annie’’ at the Youngstown Playhouse. He said she was the first person he met in Youngstown who he thought had “star quality.”

In an effort to balance the city’s budget, Youngstown Councilman Lock Beachum suggests that city employees making more than $30,000 should take 10 percent pay cuts and those making $20,000 or less, 5 percent cuts.

1976: General Motors Corp., riding the crest of a surging auto industry, earned a near- record $800 million in the first quarter of the year, more than 13 times its depressed profits of a year earlier.

A Canfield car dealer holds two men at gunpoint outside the Park Inn on Glenwood Avenue after he saw them park a car, which he recognized as having been stolen from a friend’s car lot. He removed the coil wire from the car, called police, borrowed a gun from the bartender and then confronted the men when they returned and tried to start the car. He held them until police arrived.

The adjutant general’s office awards contracts totaling $750,837 for construction of a National Guard Armory on a 10-acre sit on Victoria Road in Austintown.

1966: Sharon Steel Corp. is considering construction of a multimillion-dollar office building in Hubbard Township.

Grounds of the Niles YMCA are being beautified, and facilities expanded through recent gifts. Charles Webb presented flowering grab trees, and Barbara Bollinger gave an exercise machine.

A 2-year-old granddaughter of Kathryn Fennessey escapes serious injury when she fell from the second floor of a home on Saranac Avenue.

Plans to construct a major department store in the Austintown Plaza are revealed to the Mahoning County Planning Commission. A zone-change request for more parking was denied the store’s builder.

1941: The United Mine Workers Union announces that soft-coal production will resume in the nation’s bituminous fields, which have been shut down since April 1 over a wage contract. The union accepted a $1-a-day wage increase.

Mrs. Paul Kidder, wife of the juvenile-division detective, is elected president of the new Fraternal Order of Police Auxiliary at the initial meeting at Central Auditorium. Seventy-five charter members are present.

Charm, poise and a lovely speaking voice are assets the businesswoman should cultivate, Miss Martha Steckle tells Quota members at the club’s dinner meeting at the Dinner Bell.

A resolution urging immediate congressional approval of the Berlin and Mosquito Creek reservoirs and their construction at the earliest possible date is adopted by the Mahoning Valley Resources Committee.