YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 23

Today is Sunday, April 23, the 113th day of 2017. There are 252 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1016: Aethelred II “The Unready,” King of the English, dies in London after 38 years on the throne.

1616: English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare dies in Stratford-upon-Avon on what has traditionally been regarded as the 52nd anniversary of his birth in 1564.

1789: President-elect George Washington and his wife, Martha, move into the first executive mansion, the Franklin House, in New York.

1791: The 15th president of the United States, James Buchanan, is born in Franklin County, Pa.

1954: Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hits the first of his 755 major-league home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. (The Braves won, 7-5.)

1969: Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. (The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.)

1971: Hundreds of Vietnam War veterans opposed to the conflict protest by tossing their medals and ribbons over a wire fence in front of the U.S. Capitol.

1987: Twenty-eight construction workers are killed when an apartment complex being built in Bridgeport, Conn., suddenly collapses.

1992: McDonald’s opens its first fast-food restaurant in the Chinese capital of Beijing.

2005: The recently created video-sharing website YouTube uploads its first clip, “Me at the Zoo,” which shows YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo.

2007: Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first freely elected president, dies in Moscow at age 76.

2012: Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson breaks down in tears while testifying at the Chicago trial of William Balfour, the man accused of killing her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in a jealous rage in 2008. (Balfour was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.)

2016: A confident Donald Trump tells supporters in Bridgeport, Conn., that he is not changing his pitch to voters, a day after his chief adviser assured Republican officials their party’s front-runner would show more restraint while campaigning.

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1992: William Phillis, who resigned as assistant superintendent of public instruction for the Ohio Department of Education, is hired by the Ohio Public Schools Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Finance to help lead the drive for educational financing reform.

The Westminster Presbyterian Church in Boardman opens its three-day book sale with more than 40,000 books for sale.

Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro thinks it’s time the city and state enter into an agreement so that the Ohio State Highway Patrol can investigate traffic accidents in the city, particularly those involving city police officers.

1977: Zeta Tau Alpha sorority and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity take first place in Youngstown State University’s 25th annual Greek Sing. The evening was dedicated to Mrs. Mary B. Smith, university director of career planning and placement, who began her career at Youngstown College in 1939.

A delegation including Gov. James A. Rhodes, Sens. John Glenn and Howard Metzenbaum and Ohio House Speaker Vern Riffe meet with federal officials in Portsmouth to discuss southern Ohio’s chance of holding onto a major government nuclear facility.

The Youngstown Health Department says it tested 12 wells and two springs and found them all safe, leaving unexplained the recent death of Emmanuel McCottry, 71, who was believed to have drunk contaminated water.

1967: Jesse Adams Jr., Washington director of savings bond sales for the U.S. Treasury Department, speaks at the Mural Room restaurant in Youngstown as Mahoning County kicks off its “Share in Freedom” U.S. savings bond payroll savings campaign.

Spring weather brings renewed activity at the Thompson Flying Service at Youngstown Municipal Airport and Southern Airways in Boardman, where an increasing number of student pilots are women. Female pilots featured in a Vindicator Rotogravure feature include Martha Whitten, Johnnie Belle Leonard, Frances Firestone, Sharon Bartlett, Kathryn McNaughton, Linda Ross, Nedra Lewis, Teta Astey, Catherine Little, Audrey Barnhart and Stella Pealer.

Pennsylvania State Police are looking for a boy who fired a rifle at Mary Beth Zarella, wounding her, while she was in the woods off U.S. Route 224 looking for her horse near Hillsville, Pa.

1942: Youngstown Police Sgt. William Davis will be the first witness before the grand jury investigating the bombing of Davis’ home, apparently by gangsters who targeted the head of the vice squad.

With gas rationing set at five gallons a week, “motoring as usual” is out in 17 states beginning May 15.

Women will be trained for defense jobs in Youngstown public school shops in June. They must pass a physical, be between 25 and 40 years of age and weigh no more than 125 pounds.