YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 30

Today is Sunday, April 30, the 120th day of 2017. There are 245 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1517: Londoners begin attacking foreign residents in rioting that carries over into the next day; no deaths were reported from what came to be known as “Evil May Day,” but about a dozen rioters, maybe more, ended up being executed.

1563: Charles VI orders the expulsion of all Jews from France.

1789: George Washington takes the oath of office in New York as the first president of the United States.

1798: The U.S. Department of the Navy is formed.

1803: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for 60 million francs, which is the equivalent of about $15 million.

1812: Louisiana becomes the 18th state of the Union.

1900: Engineer John Luther “Casey” Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad dies in a train wreck near Vaughan, Miss., after staying at the controls in a successful effort to save the passengers.

1939: The New York World’s Fair officially opens with a ceremony that includes an address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1945: As Soviet troops approach his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.

“Arthur Godfrey Time” begins a 27-year run on CBS radio

1947: President Harry S. Truman signs a resolution officially confirming the name of Hoover Dam, which has also come to be known as “Boulder Dam.”

1968: New York City police forcibly remove student demonstrators occupying five buildings at Columbia University.

1973: President Richard Nixon announces the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean, who was actually fired.

1975: The Vietnam War ends as the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon falls to Communist forces. It is renamed Ho Chi Minh City.

1988: Gen. Manuel Noriega, waving a machete, vows to keep fighting U.S. efforts to oust him as Panama’s military ruler.

1997: The U.S. Senate approves, 85-13, the nomination of Alexis Herman to be labor secretary.

ABC-TV airs the “coming out” episode of the situation comedy “Ellen” in which the title character played by Ellen DeGeneres acknowledges her homosexuality, weeks after DeGeneres revealed in Time magazine that she, too, is a lesbian.

2007: President George W. Bush says he wants to work with Democrats on compromise legislation to pay for the Iraq war but tells a Rose Garden news conference he will carry through on his threat to veto any spending bill that sets a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal.

Actor Tom Poston dies in Los Angeles at age 85.

2012: President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, meeting at the White House, decry aggressive acts from North Korea, including a recent failed rocket launch, and vow to maintain a unified front against such provocations.

2016: Anti-government protesters tear down walls and pour into the Iraqi capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone, where they storm parliament in a major escalation of a political crisis that had simmered for months.

President Barack Obama performs his brand of sharp-tongued comedy at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the last time – wrapping up with “Obama out” and dropping the mic as the crowd cheered.

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1992: Columbiana County Assistant Director of Economic Development Chip Highley says his van was attacked by angry anti-prison protesters as he drove away from a meeting at the Columbiana County Career Center to discuss a proposed federal prison at Elkrun.

Among those attending the annual Holocaust commemoration at the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown are Mayor Patrick Ungaro, Bishop James W. Malone and the Rev. William Brewster, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Idora Park must pass economic and environmental muster before the city considers buying it, says Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro.

1977: Three Youngstown residents are swept up in a statewide computer investigation into welfare fraud and are charged with defrauding the Mahoning County Welfare Department out of $6,151.

President Carter wants people to be eligible for cash rebates of up to $473 for buying small, high-mileage cars and owners of gas-guzzlers to be taxed up to $449.

Gary Jones, a freshman at Youngstown State University, is named “Boy of the Year” at the seventh annual Boys Club awards banquet.

1967: The State Highway Department will repave sections of Routes 7 and 18 as part of a program to improve traffic flow in suburban intersections. Concrete dividers will be replaced by left turn lanes.

Members of the Youngstown Pirate Motorcycle Club remove 315 posters from utility poles in the city as part of an effort to enforce an ordinance against such postings.

Pianist Stephen Manes will be featured in the final concert of the season by the Warren Symphony Orchestra.

Don Yanek of Youngstown is awarded a graduate scholarship at Ohio State University for study toward a master’s degree in computer science.

1942: Mayor William B. Spagnola signs a blackout order prohibiting Youngstowners from leaving a light burning when they leave home. A plan for turning off store advertising and display windows is being worked out.

United Airlines will inaugurate morning service from Youngstown Municipal Airport to New York.

The Burger Beer Keglers, winners of the second-half title, tops the first-half champs, Levinson’s Diamonds, in the roll-off for the City Bowling League crown.

Workers of Mahoning County’s rationing system prepare to register 60,000 families for their sugar allotments after registering more than 2,000 “trade” users.