YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 10

Today is Wednesday, April 10, the 100th day of 2019. There are 265 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1865: Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a day after surrendering the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House, says farewell to his men, praising them for their “unsurpassed courage and fortitude.”

1866: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is incorporated.

1912: The British liner RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.

1925: The F. Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby” is first published by Scribner’s of New York.

1962: Stuart Sutcliffe, the Beatles’ original bass player, dies in Hamburg, West Germany, at age 21.

1998: The Northern Ireland peace talks end as negotiators reach a landmark settlement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks.

2014: A woman is taken into custody after throwing a shoe at Hillary Clinton as the former secretary of state began a Las Vegas convention keynote speech; the shoe missed.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: An Akron attorney files suit in federal court seeking to have Ohio’s mayors’ courts declared unconstitutional because mayors are also the chief financial officers and law-enforcement officers of their cities, making it impossible for them to be impartial.

Students at Garfield Elementary School in Warren will be able to study French for four years before entering junior high. The Parent-Teacher Organization is paying a French teacher to come to the school every two weeks to conduct classes.

Court of Appeals Judge Nathaniel Jones says Youngstown, which registered its 20th homicide of the year, is reaping the harvest of the segregated society of his youth, which fueled a lack of opportunity and feeling of hopelessness.

1979: The Lordstown General Motors plant shuts down after four hours when it runs out of parts due to the Teamsters strike.

A firetruck en route to an alarm at St. Elizabeth Hospital collides with a car at West Rayen and Fifth avenues, injuring three firemen and two occupants of the car. Injured were Fireman Phil DeAngelo, Capt. Jim DeCapua, Fireman James Durkin and Frank D. Mason and Eileen Ellis.

The Miami Indians of Youngstown take their fledgling campaign for federal recognition of their 250-member tribe to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.

1969: The Mahoning County Planning Commission gives its approval of a large truck terminal and restaurant complex at state Route 18 and Bailey Road. A zone change for the project was sought by F.J. Solteez on behalf of John Moherman.

Victor Posner, chairman of NVF Corp., denies a rumor that George Perrault Jr. might lose his $100,000-a-year job as president of Sharon Steel Corp.

Maxine Bindas, a junior in education at Youngstown State University and a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, is named sweetheart of Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity.

1944: Dr. Robert Montgomery, president of Muskingum College, conducts the Easter sunrise service at the Palace Theater, drawing a record crowd to the event sponsored by St. John’s Commandery, Knights Templar and Federated Churches.

Mr. and Mrs. Christ Conzaman will remember this Easter as the day they received a telegram telling them that their son, Cpl. Steve Conzaman, is being returned from overseas duty to Crile Hospital in Cleveland to recover from his wounds.

Two janitors who frustrated an attempted safe burglary at the Fraternal Order of Eagles building were shot at. Charles Blair and his son, Richard, surprised five men in front of the safe. The burglars escaped after firing twice at Charles.