YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 16

Today is Easter Sunday, April 16, the 106th day of 2017. There are 259 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1789:President-elect George Washington leaves Mount Vernon, Va., for his inauguration in New York.

1867: Aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright is born in Millville, Ind. (his brother Orville was born five years later in Dayton, Ohio).

1912: American aviator Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel, leaving Dover, England, and arriving near Calais, France, in 59 minutes.

1917: Following the abdication of Czar Nicholas II, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returns to Russia after years of exile.

1937: The Laurel & Hardy slapstick comedy “Way Out West” is released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

1940: Major League Baseball’s first (and, to date, only) opening day no-hitter occurs as Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians pitches one against the Chicago White Sox, 1-0, at Comiskey Park.

1945: During World War II, a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoes and sinks the MV Goya, which Germany was using to transport civilian refugees and wounded soldiers; it’s estimated that up to 7,000 people died.

1947: The cargo ship Grandcamp, carrying a load of ammonium nitrate, blows up in the harbor in Texas City, Texas; a nearby ship, the HighFlyer, which was carrying ammonium nitrate, caught fire as a result and exploded the following day; the blasts and fires killed nearly 600 people.

In a speech at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, financier Bernard M. Baruch said: “Let us not be deceived – we are today in the midst of a cold war.”

1963: Martin Luther King Jr. writes his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in which he said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

1972: Apollo 16 blasts off to the moon with astronauts John Young, Charles Duke Jr. and Ken Mattingly on board.

2007: In one of America’s worst school attacks, college senior Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech before taking his own life.

2016: In an extraordinary gesture, Pope Francis brings 12 Syrian Muslims to Italy aboard his plane after an emotional visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, which was facing the brunt of Europe’s migration crisis

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: George and Andy Stavich, the two surviving brothers of four who founded Calex Corp. in Campbell 40 years ago, distribute $7.3 million from its retirement funds to 146 current and former employees. The checks average $50,000 and go as high as $330,000. Wooster Products has bought Calex.

Police Sgt. Ted Terlesky, field supervisor for security in Youngstown City Schools, says the schools are safe, and he suggests that students go to school 12 months a year, which would keep them off the streets and out of the hair of police.

The Trumbull County Joint Vocational School must repay more than $400,000 in government money for failure to meet funding requirements in adult education.

1977: General Motors Corp., which reported record profits and sales in 1976, grants bonuses and increases, bringing chairman Thomas A. Murphy’s pay to $955,000.

Three Columbus men are flushed out of a Days Inn two hours after they allegedly fired eight shots into a nearby Holiday Inn at I-80 and Route 46 in Austintown.

Dr. Byrl Shoemaker, state director of vocational education, breaks ground for the $9.4 million Trumbull Joint Vocational School adjacent to the Trumbull Campus of Kent State University in Champion Township.

1967: For Ohio motorists the condition is “blue” as the old red license plates for 1966 expire and the 1967 blue tags are required.

John B. Lawhorn, a graduate of Scienceville High School, now known as North High, will conduct a music education workshop in St. Croix, Virgin Islands.

A five-week vacation is set for 18 travelers on The VindicatorSSRqs grand tour of Europe. The group sails on the Queen Mary, accompanied by Editor Ann Przelomski and her husband, Ed.

Janet Spangler, an eighth- grade student from Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School, Ashtabula, wins the 14th annual spelling bee of the Youngstown Diocese.

1942: Heeding President Roosevelt’s appeal for books for soldiers, the Mahoning County Victory Book Drive is organized.

Frank Canonico, 58, owner of the Himrod Tavern, is shot to death in his tavern, allegedly by a former friend after an argument over a stock deal.

Francis Harnutovsky breaks two school records as he leads the Struthers High track team to victory over Poland Seminary. Struthers took first place in every event but the 220-yard low hurdles.

The Ohio Wesleyan Women’s Organization rounds out a successful year with a meeting at the home of Miss Martha Lu Laughlin. The program was presented by talented high school students: Catherine Kabealo, the East High Ensemble and Lois Ann Bieder.