YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 2

Today is Sunday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2017. There are 273 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1550: Jews are expelled from Genoa, Italy

1863: A bread riot breaks out in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va., as angry people demand bread from a bakery wagon and then wreck nearby shops

1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va., because of advancing Union forces.

1872: George B. Brayton patents the gasoline-powered engine.

1902: The Electric Theatre, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, Calif.

1917: President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, “The world must be made safe for democracy.” (Congress declared war four days later.)

1932: Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh and John F. Condon go to a cemetery in The Bronx, N.Y., where Condon turns over $50,000 to a man in exchange for Lindbergh’s kidnapped son. (The child, who was not returned, was found dead the following month.)

1942: Glenn Miller and his Orchestra record “American Patrol” at the RCA Victor studios in Hollywood.

1956: The soap operas “As the World Turns” and “The Edge of Night” both premiere on CBS-TV.

1968: The science-fiction film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, has its world premiere in Washington, D.C.

1974: French President Georges Pompidou, 62, dies in Paris.

1982: Several thousand troops from Argentina seize the disputed Falkland Islands, located in the south Atlantic, from Britain. (Britain seized the islands back the following June.)

1986: Four American passengers, including an 8-month-old girl, her mother and grandmother, are killed when a terrorist bomb explodes aboard a TWA jetliner en route from Rome to Athens, Greece.

1992: Mob boss John Gotti is convicted in New York of murder and racketeering; he was later sentenced to life and died in prison.

2005: Pope John Paul II dies in his Vatican apartment at age 84.

2007: In its first case on climate change, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, rules 5-4 that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: A San Francisco advertising company’s study of 209 media markets in the United States determines that Youngstown area residents devote an average of eight hours and 50 minutes a day to media consumption, tops in the nation and 10 percent above the national average.

Youngstown City Council authorizes the administration to negotiate final agreements for 294 acres of former USX and LTV land along the Mahoning River. The land could cost $1.1 million.

About 400 welfare-rights demonstrators, including 50 from the Youngstown area, stage a one-hour protest outside the Statehouse in opposition to Gov. George Voinovich’s decision to cut more than 100,000 people from the welfare rolls.

1977: Mahoning and Trumbull counties and their subdivisions will receive a total of $6.3 million in federal revenue sharing funds for the period of Jan. 1 to Sept. 30.

In a brief filed with U.S. District Court Judge Leroy J. Contie, lawyers for the Youngstown Board of Education say plaintiffs in the city school desegregation case failed to prove that polices over the past 35 years were intended to racially segregate schools.

Thomas Secord, 26, of Jefferson County is killed when his glider crashed at the Columbiana County Airport.

1967: Plans to close the U.S. Air Force Base at the Youngstown Municipal Airport have been revised, and the strength of the 910th Carrier Group at the base is being substantially increased.

Launa Newman, a 1957 graduate of Warren G. Harding High School and 1961 graduate of Northwestern University, is the talent coordinator for the “Mike Douglas Show,” responsible for booking all the celebrities on the nationally televised program.

Alexandra Nan, an art teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School, will spend three months in Romania as a guide for the United States Information Agency’s traveling exhibit of American hand tools.

1942: William F. Maag Jr., editor and general manager of The Vindicator, accepts appointment as chairman of the Community and War Chest Campaign of Youngstown and Mahoning County.

With five Niles residents under treatment for rabies, Health Commissioner S.W. Boesel says that any dog roaming the streets will be picked up or shot.

Struthers City Council passes a resolution accepting plans for a $30,000 fire station and authorizes Safety Director Stephen Ondra to advertise for bids.

The full moon shining over Youngstown is the paschal full moon – the first full moon after March 21 by which Easter and Passover are set.