YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 4

Today is Tuesday, April 4, the 94th day of 2017. There are 271 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1841: President William Henry Harrison succumbs to pneumonia one month after his inaugural, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die in office.

1887: Susanna Madora Salter becomes the first woman elected mayor of an American community: Argonia, Kan.

1968: Civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, is shot and killed on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.

1983: The space shuttle Challenger roars into orbit on its maiden voyage. (It was destroyed in the disaster of January 1986.)

1991: Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., and six other people, including two children, are killed when a helicopter collides with Heinz’s plane over a schoolyard in Merion, Pa.

2012: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney unleashes a strong attack on President Barack Obama’s truthfulness, accusing him of running a “hide-and-seek” re-election campaign in an address to newspaper editors and publishers.

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1992: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-17th, will seek re-election to a fifth two-year term. Two candidates, M. Ross Norris of Canfield and Michael J. Metaxis of Youngstown, will challenge him in the Democratic primary.

Greg Haugen sends Youngstown’s Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini back into retirement, after referee Mills Lane stops their junior welterweight fight in Reno, Nev., at 2:23 of the seventh round.

Youngstown police report no developments in the slaying of an elderly South Side couple, Jessie and Hattie Arnold, whose bodies were found in their home at 156 W. Evergreen Ave.

1977: Trumbull County Sheriff Richard A. Jakmas ends a 3-month labor dispute in his 100-member department by agreeing to recognize The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees as the employees’ bargaining agent.

Dominic St. Pierre of Struthers is selected “Knight of the Year” by Knights of Columbus Council 4224.

1967: The old Beaver Township branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County is being moved from its location at North Lima High School to the Canfield Fairgrounds, where it will become part of the Pioneer Village.

Two Vindicator carriers, Michael Vodhanel of Campbell and Kim R. Saltsman of Southington, who won a two-week trip to Switzerland and Germany in a circulation contest, are on their way home.

A 3-year-old boy who wandered into a wooded Southington Township area with his dog is home safely thanks to a 9-year-old neighbor, Dale DeVault Jr., who heard crying in the woods behind his home.

The Youngstown Board of Education takes no action on Dr. J.H. Wanamaker’s request for release from his contract, which runs to August 1968, citing the stress of the job.

1942: The Ohio State Council of Defense urges municipal officials throughout the state to seek passage of blackout and air raid ordinances and suggests Youngstown’s legislation as a model.

Films on the London bombing and one showing steps taken to warn Americans of air raids will be shown in Stambaugh Auditorium under auspices of the Mahoning County Civilian Defense Council and the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

South High’s debate team goes into finals at Wooster in the eastern division of the state tournament for National Forensic League schools. E.G. Diehm directs the Youngstown team.

Two former Youngstown priests, the Rev. George Dobnellon and the Rev. Charles Logue, are promoted to captain in the U.S. Army Chaplains Corps.