YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 10

Today is Monday, April 10, the 100th day of 2017. There are 265 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday Passover begins at sunset.

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On this date in:

1866: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is incorporated.

1912: The British liner RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.

1925: The F. Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby” is first published by Scribner’s of New York.

1957: The jury-deliberation film drama “12 Angry Men,” starring Henry Fonda, premieres in Los Angeles.

1967: At the Academy Awards, “A Man for All Seasons” wins best picture of 1966.

1992: Comedian Sam Kinison is killed in a car crash outside Needles, Calif., at age 38.

2016: The Boston Globe publishes a satirical front page lampooning a potential Donald Trump presidency; the Republican candidate responds by calling the newspaper “stupid” and “worthless.”

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1992: Austintown police will talk with the Interstate Homicide Task Force as part of its probe into the death of a woman assumed to be a prostitute whose body was found between two truck stops near Interstate 80.

Gov. George Voinovich christens a continuous slab caster at WCI Steel Inc. in Warren.

Boardman-based Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. offers to donate 100 acres along state Route 193 in Trumbull County as the site of a proposed Pentagon accounting center that would employ as many as 7,000.

Trumbull County Eastern District Court Judge Ray J. Rice, 67, dies at St. Elizabeth Medical Center after suffering a heart attack.

1977: Increasing steel orders put new emphasis on the need for repairs to the No. 3 blast furnace at U.S. Steel Corp.’s Ohio Works, which has developed a slight list to starboard.

Donald B. Mills, business manager for the Warren City School District, says vandalism is costly, with $25,000 spent annually to replace windows alone.

Dr. Henry P. Sheng, professor of chemical engineering and materials science at Youngstown State University, is granted a patent on an electrostatic equipment device aimed at reducing the energy in paper making.

1967: Maureen Philbin of Warren, a junior at St. Elizabeth Hospital’s School of Nursing, is named runner-up in the Student Nurse of the Ohio competition in Dayton.

Julius Morey, owner of Morey’s Dairy on Elm Street, has a return visit from an armed robber. Morey recognized the man when he came in. The robber escaped with the contents of the cash register, Morey’s wallet and six cartons of cigarettes.

U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan announces a $39,875 grant to Youngstown University to help motivate high-school students from low-income families toward college.

1942: Numerous homes in the upper parts of the Mahoning and Shenango valleys are isolated by high water as both rivers overflow lowland areas, hampering railroad operations and industries.

About 3,000 Boy Scouts and Cubs, who have been training under Scout leaders, will be on their own when they present the third Boy Scout Circus in the South High Field House.

Youngstown’s first air-raid report center will open at the West End Fire Station, Mahoning and Eleanor avenues.

President Franklin Roosevelt discloses that in connection with studies for mobilization of manpower for war industries, the government is considering voluntary registration of all women 18 to 65.