YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 11

Today is Tuesday, April 11, the 101st day of 2017. There are 264 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1689: William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.

1713: The Treaty of Utrecht is signed, ending the War of the Spanish Succession.

1865: President Abraham Lincoln speaks to a crowd outside the White House, saying, “We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.” (It was the last public address Lincoln would deliver.)

1921: Iowa becomes the first state to impose a cigarette tax, at 2 cents a package.

1945: During World War II, American soldiers liberate the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany.

1947: Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers plays in an exhibition game against the New York Yankees at Ebbets Field, four days before his regular-season debut that would break baseball’s color line. (The Dodgers won, 14-6.)

1970: Apollo 13, with astronauts James A. Lovell, Fred W. Haise and Jack Swigert, blasts off on its ill-fated mission to the moon.

1981: President Ronald Reagan returns to the White House from the hospital, 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt.

2007: North Carolina’s top prosecutor drops all charges against three former Duke University lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a stripper at a party.

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1992: The Pentagon revises the list of what it looks for from communities vying for one of its planned finance centers, and the changes may hurt Youngstown’s chances.

KDKA, the Pittsburgh radio station that was the first to be licensed in the U.S. in 1920, announces that it is abandoning music and will go to an all-talk format.

Austintown Township Trustee Michael Antonoff calls off his latest attempt to overturn the countywide tax levy that funds Mill Creek Metropolitan Park District.

1977: Frank Leseganich, District 26 director of the United Steelworkers Union, says the new contract with the steel industry is the best that the USW could have gotten.

The Cleveland Indians best the Boston Red Sox, 19-9, on Easter Sunday with a 13-run, tie-breaking eighth inning.

Some 300 youngsters, age 1 through 7, turn out for the North Jackson community Easter egg hunt on the lawn of the Federated Church.

1967: Five Volney Rogers Junior High students receive superior ratings at the Ohio Academy of Science in Columbus. They are Dick Powell, John Parker, Gary Kubic, Jack Lanz and Jim McClymonds.

The East Palestine Band Parents Club opens a drive to purchase new raincoats for high-school band members.

The longstanding issues of vacant council presidency and councilman-at-large seat are settled at a Girard City Council meeting when Republican Joseph Catone and Democrat Joseph Melfi are named to the respective posts.

1942: Burglars blow open a safe in the office of Principal George Barton in Poland Seminary High School and take about $500, receipts from the senior play.

The Industrial Bowling League rings down the curtain on the 1941-42 season with a banquet at the Canteen Club. Coconut Grove won the team championship and Press Steel was the runner-up.

John Lawthers, Penn State basketball coach, tells the Youngstown Kiwanis Club that short men, tall men and stout men can play basketball with proper training.