YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 1


Today is Monday, April 1, the 91st day of 2019. There are 274 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1789: The U.S. House of Representatives has its first full meeting in New York; Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania is elected the first House speaker.

1933: Nazi Germany stages a daylong national boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.

1945: American forces launch the amphibious invasion of Okinawa during World War II. (U.S. forces succeeded in capturing the Japanese island on June 22.)

1954: The U.S. Air Force Academy is established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

1970: President Richard M. Nixon signs a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and television, to take effect after Jan. 1, 1971.

1976: Apple Computer is founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

1984: Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father, Marvin Gay Sr. in Los Angeles, the day before the recording star’s 45th birthday.

1987: President Ronald Reagan tells doctors in Philadelphia, “We’ve declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1.”

2003: American troops enter a hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, and rescue Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, who had been held prisoner since her unit was ambushed March 23.

2014: Congress demands answers from General Motors’ new CEO, Mary Barra, on why the automaker had taken 10 years to recall cars with a faulty ignition switch.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: A taxpayer’s lawsuit is filed by Atty. Don L. Hanni Jr. on behalf of Atty. William Marshall Jr. seeking to block the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District’s $109 million improvement project on the grounds that it is an unreasonable expenditure of public funds.

Mahoning County Juvenile Court Judge James M. McNally rules that hearings will be open to the press in the cases of two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old charged with shooting and wounding pizza delivery man Mike Saccomano.

Warren Comety, 18, pleads guilty to aggravated murder and attempted murder in the attack on an elderly Warren couple, Theodore and Cathryn Emerson. He avoids the death penalty and is sentenced to 20 years to life.

1979: Lt. Col. Tsaknis, DDS, a Campbell native, is awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for his research contributions in maxillofacial wound healing at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

The Ohio attorney general’s Charitable Foundation Section shuts down another Trumbull County bingo, the Western Reserve Quarterback Club games that operated at a River Road banquet hall.

Youngstown’s request for $200,000 in federal funds to finance a five-year war on rats in the city is expected to be approved.

1969: Trumbull County Probate Court Judge Reed Battin issues an order clearing the way for annexation of the new Eastwood Mall to the city of Niles.

Mahoning County Sheriff Ray T. Davis fails to appear for a meeting arranged by county commissioners with John J. Angelo, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 377, to discuss the request by employees in the department for union representation.

1944: A 15-year-old East Alliance boy who played hooky from school once too often is sentenced to an indeterminate period at the Boys Industrial School at Lancaster by Mahoning Juvenile Court Judge Henry Beckenbach.

“We are going to keep Ohio fishermen in Ohio instead of chasing them to Canada and other fishing states,” says U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan as he dumps the first bucket of a consignment of 1,000 crappies, blue gills and perch into the Mosquito Reservoir.

Joseph Dannery, 15, of Dryden Street is in poor condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital after being accidentally shot by a friend as they played “cowboys.”

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