YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 13

Today is Thursday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2017. There are 262 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1613: Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, is captured by English Capt. Samuel Argall in the Virginia Colony. (During a yearlong captivity, Pocahontas converted to Christianity and ultimately opted to stay with the English.)

1742: “Messiah,” the oratorio by George Frideric Handel featuring the “Hallelujah” chorus, has its first public performance in Dublin, Ireland.

1743: The third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, is born in Shadwell in the Virginia Colony.

1861: At the start of the Civil War, Fort Sumter in South Carolina falls to Confederate forces.

1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of the third American president’s birth.

1964: Sidney Poitier becomes the first black performer in a leading role to win an Academy Award for his performance in “Lilies of the Field.”

1997: Tiger Woods, at age 21, becomes the youngest player to win the Masters Tournament by a record 12 strokes at Augusta National Golf Club.

2016: President Barack Obama visits CIA headquarters, where he claims progress in the U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State group.

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1992: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. is among a group of congressmen in a call for a pay cut for legislators saying it would help restore constituent confidence.

The Ursuline Sisters are raising money for a $2.1 million expansion and remodeling of their motherhouse and pre-school education center on Shields Road.

Youngstown businessman William Cafaro pledges $50,000 toward the cost of developing proposals for the Pentagon finance center that the Mahoning Valley is competing for.

1977: Damage is estimated at $62,800 in an arson fire at the Coney Island restaurant, 28 Hazel St., in downtown Youngstown.

The Salem Area Chamber of Commerce gives its “Outstanding Citizen Award” posthumously to Dr. Harold B. Winn, late pastor of First Friends Church and an influential community leader for 30 years.

The Mahoning County Board of Elections contracts with Computer Election Co. of Massillon for two mini-computers that will tabulate all absentee voting in the June 7 primary.

1967: House Bill 134 to make Youngstown University a state university passes the Ohio House 89-0 and goes to a Senate committee.

Sales of William Manchester’s “Death of a President” slow down after heavy advance orders brought what one Youngstown store called “the biggest business” ever on any one book.

Youngstown Kiwanis Club reaches agreement with Steel Valley Group Homes Inc. to provide $10,000 and volunteer service to open the first group home on High Street for neglected and dependent boys.

1942: Fifty-five tons of scrap worth $795 is collected in the second campaign to help finance farewells for local Army selectees.

An editorial on Easter Sunday written by Dick Lynch of Youngstown for The Pittsburgh Courier, national Negro weekly newspaper, is selected as the “Editorial of the Week.”

The problem of ironing workmen’s washable caps is solved by Martin Berger, president of Workingmen’s Overall Supply Co. He invented a cap-ironing machine.