Friday, April 28, 2017
Today is Friday, April 28, the 118th day of 2017. There are 247 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1789: A mutiny on the HMS Bounty erupts as rebelling crew members of the British ship, led by Fletcher Christian, set the captain, William Bligh, and 18 others adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. (Bligh and most of the men with him reached Timor in 47 days.)
1925: The International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts, which gives rise to the term Art Deco, begins a six-month run in Paris.
1942: Pollster George Gallup says most Americans prefer to call the then-current global conflict “World War II” or “The Second World War” (other suggestions included “Survival War” or “War of World Freedom”).
1967: Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali is stripped of his title after he refuses to be inducted into the armed forces.
1974: Former Attorney General John Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans are acquitted of all Watergate-related charges by a federal jury in New York.
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1992: Boardman Board of Education President Mark Huberman says there have been eight drug-related suspensions or expulsions at Boardman High School this school year, including two girls who admitted to taking LSD stamps to school.
A Federal Bureau of Prisons official says Elkrun Township in Columbiana County has been selected as the site for a new federal prison.
The Warren Board of Education will not renew the contracts of 100 teachers, including 44 in the vocational-school program because the city school district will be affiliated with the Trumbull County Joint Vocational School and 13 in the Head Start program, which is being taken over by the Warren Trumbull Community Services Agency.
1977: Citing record sales of big cars, General Motors reports record first-quarter profits of $903 million on sales of $13.6 billion, up 13 percent from a year earlier.
The Ohio Department of Transportation announces that $16 million will be spent for bridge replacements in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties.
Orlando Cortes, 39, who carried two of his children and a niece through flames to safety, dies with his daughter, Debbie, 3, while attempting to carry her from a burning apartment on Robinson Road in Campbell.
1967: A 16-year-old Pulaski, Pa., boy is charged with murder in Erie, Pa., six hours after a restaurant owner was fatally shot during a hold-up.
Mahoning County deputy sheriff Carl Terek is injured and his 3-month-old Ford cruiser demolished when a motorist turns into his path in state Routes 18 and 534.
A spring frolic dance open to adults will take place at St. Paul the Apostle Church Hall in New Middletown. Music will be furnished by the Ronaldi Alberto Combo.
1942: The Youngstown Ministerial Association gives its wholehearted endorsement to efforts to attack organized crime and “make Youngstown a city of safety and decency in this time of national emergency.”
Rayen School’s golf team scores its second win in a row, defeating Hubbard High’s mashie-swingers on the Hubbard Golf Course. Surprise performance of the afternoon was that of Art Deak, newcomer to Rayen’s varsity.
Two Youngstown men are granted patents: Arthur Olson on an improved method of arranging the tubes in an industrial heating furnace and Stephen Plateck for a safety guard on a pneumatic chipping hammer.