Saturday, April 15, 2017
Today is Saturday, April 15, the 105th day of 2017. There are 260 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1865: President Abraham Lincoln dies nine hours after being shot the night before by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington; Andrew Johnson becomes the nation’s 17th president.
1892: General Electric Co., formed by the merger of the Edison Electric Light Co. and other companies, is incorporated in Schenectady, N.Y.
1974: Members of the Symbionese Liberation Army hold up a branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco; a member of the group is SLA kidnap victim Patricia Hearst, who goes by the name “Tania” (Hearst later said she’d been forced to participate).
2013: Two bombs explode at the Boston Marathon finish line, killing two women and an 8-year-old boy and injuring more than 260. (Suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a shootout with police; his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was tried, convicted and sentenced to death.)
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: A head-on collision on the Oak Street bridge between a Youngstown police cruiser and a car kills detective Sgt. Millard Williams, 39, and Lena Centofanti, 68.
The Champion Board of Education tables a proposed Spanish course for middle-school students after parents complain that the students need more proficiency in reading English before studying a foreign language.
The Youngstown Board of Education unanimously approves an amendment to its student code of conduct to specifically prohibit sexual harassment. Superintendent Emanuel N. Catsoules says the change is in response to a complaint filed by a female student, which he would not discuss specifically.
1977:General Motors Lordstown complex is expected to learn within a month what new car will be built at the plant when the Chevrolet Vega is phased out.
Warren detectives are investigating a burglary at the Revco Drug Store, 4075 Parkman Road NW, in which a large quantity of narcotics, $400 in cash and a number of watches were taken.
A fight at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house near Youngstown State University ends in the stabbing of one student and the beating of another. Richard Knapp, 23, is in fair condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital with stab wounds and George Mascarella, 19, is hospitalized with a possible concussion.
1967: Trumbull County commissioners suggest that their county and Mahoning County jointly finance a rehabilitation center for juvenile delinquents.
Concern ’67, a conference sponsored by 12 area Episcopal churches takes place at the new Christ Episcopal Church in Warren to discuss common problems facing the Mahoning and Shenango valleys.
Mahoning County’s first half of 1966 real-estate collection reaches $14.1 million, exceeding 100 percent of the charge.
1942: Joseph I. Zimmer, vice president of the Ohio State Supply Co., is elected commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3307. He will be installed by Charles Brown, organizer and first post commander.
Four large buses jammed with Youngstown men of Selective Service Board 3 pull out of the driveway at Lincoln School before the cheers and tears of more than 3,000 people, making it the largest send-off Youngstown has seen.
Jo Bregar, brunette junior at Youngstown College, will be the queen of the 11th annual junior prom at Stambaugh Auditorium.