YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 7

Today is Friday, April 7, the 97th day of 2017. There are 268 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1788: An expedition led by Gen. Rufus Putnam establishes a settlement at present-day Marietta, Ohio.

1862: Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.

1917: American entertainer and songwriter George M. Cohan, galvanized by America’s entry into World War I the day before, writes his rousing call to arms, “Over There.”

1927: The image and voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover are transmitted live from Washington to New York in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.

1947: Auto pioneer Henry Ford dies in Dearborn, Mich., at age 83.

1984: The Census Bureau reports Los Angeles has overtaken Chicago as the nation’s “second city” in population.

2001: NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft takes off on a six-month, 286 million-mile journey to the Red Planet.

2016: Russian President Vladimir Putin denies any links to offshore accounts and describes the Panama Papers document leaks scandal as part of a U.S.-led plot to weaken Russia.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: James Leach, 58, of 1952 Estabrook NW in Warren, is shot through the leg with an arrow while outside his home.

Retired Mahoning Valley steelworkers, including Sam Camens, former president of USW Local 1330, recall April of 1952, when President Harry Truman seized control of the nation’s steel industry to avert a strike during the Korean War.

Mahoning County Juvenile Court Judge James M. McNally delays a decision on whether a 16-year-old Youngstown youth should be charged as an adult in the shooting death of cab driver John J. Kovachik, 34, of Boardman.

1977: Struthers City Council passes a resolution asking the Ohio Liquor Control Commission to refuse any future liquor permits in the city, saying there are already 71 permits, which is more than enough.

John P. Chiasson, a 1975 graduate of Ursuline High School and a student at the University of Colorado, dies in a mountain-climbing accident near Boulder, Colo.

Mahoning County Sheriff Michael Yarosh says fired officials of the Ray T. Davis administration have as much as $40,000 in county-owned equipment that has not been turned in.

1967: Although the publisher’s recommended price is $10, competition in the Youngstown area has cut the price for William Manchester’s “Death of a President” to $6.39. The library bought 50 copies, but only one is available.

Mahoning County commissioners inspect the unoccupied Victoria Caf on Belmont Avenue with a view toward buying it to house the welfare offices rather than pay $35,000 a year in rent.

Herman “Pete” Starks, 2nd Ward Youngstown councilman, is leading the fight to oust the “The Chosen Few” motorcycle club from newly rented headquarters at 2557-59 McGuffey Road.

1942: William McCambridge is named chairman of the arrangements committee that will act as part of the Youngstown Send Off Committee. Other members are Ralph Pabst and Thomas Cullen.

Lee Bartholomew, 14, of Diamond is in serious condition in South Side Hospital after falling 40 feet from the water tower of Craig Beach.

Jerold S. Meyer, manager of out-of-town stores of Strouss-Hirshberg, is elected vice president to succeed the late Henry Goldstein at the company’s annual reorganization meeting.