YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 6

Today is Thursday, April 6, the 96th day of 2017. There are 269 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1917: The United States entered World War I as the House joins the Senate in approving a declaration of war against Germany that is then signed by President Woodrow Wilson.

1980: 3M introduces its “Post-it Notes,” a rebranding of a product formerly known as “Press ’n Peel.”

1998: Country singer Tammy Wynette dies at her Nashville home at age 55.

2012: Five black people are shot, three fatally, in Tulsa, Okla.; Jake England and Alvin Watts, who admit targeting the victims because of race, pleaded guilty to murder and were sentenced to life in prison without parole.

2014: Actor Mickey Rooney, 93, dies in North Hollywood.

2016: A federal judge in Charleston, W. Va., sentences former coal executive Don Blankenship to a year in prison for his role in the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine explosion that killed 29 men in America’s deadliest mining disaster in four decades.

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1992: The Youngstown Pride basketball team’s contract to rent Youngstown State University’s Beeghly Center violates at least four university policies, an internal YSU audit concludes.

Warren’s drug enforcement unit raids a house on Brier Street, resulting in 11 arrests and freedom for a 77-year-old handicapped woman whose home had been taken over by drug dealers.

Three graduates of Youngstown State University’s College of Fine and Performing Arts discuss their paths to success: Doug Halbert, chief designer for Honda North America; Craig Weldon Duff, coordinating producer for “Network Earth” on CNN and jazz pianist Harold Danko.

1977: New car sales passed the one million mark in March, the first time in more than four years, with General Motors accounting for 506,204 of the cars.

Glen Marsh, a retired steelworker, celebrates his 80th birthday by attending Dr. Gus Mavrigan’s mathematics class at Youngstown State University,

Local governments and private nonprofit agencies in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties are preparing applications for $12 million in federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act money.

1967: Several residents of Youngstown’s South Side and the southwest part of the city protest zone changes for the development of more than $3 million worth of apartments. Complaints of drainage problems and juvenile activities were major objections to the Fol-Mor project.

Two boys, 14 and 15, who admitted ripping out 125 tulip plants on the grounds of the McKinley Memorial and marking a statue with crayon, face a busy Saturday as Police Chief John Ross orders them to repair damage.

Wayne H. Hunter, 41, of 1310 Fifth Ave., president of Youngstown Steel Tank Co. is one of three people injured in a fiery two-car crash on Interstate 80 in Tallmadge near Akron.

1942: Youngstown Water Commissioner Innocenzo Vagnozzi storms out of a city-council conference after council orders him to submit a revised budget cutting his department’s appropriation by 10 percent.

New agitation for early construction of a Beaver-Mahoning Canal develops in the wake of President Franklin Roosevelt’s assertion that he favors full utilization of inland waterways for the war effort.

Republic Steel Corp.’s Trumbull Cliffs blast furnace at Warren is believed to have set a world’s record for iron production in March. The furnace has a rate capacity of 1,200 tons per day and produced 1,350 tons daily last month.