YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 11

Today is Thursday, April 11, the 101st day of 2019. There are 264 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1865: President Abraham Lincoln speaks to a crowd outside the White House, saying, “We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.” (It was the last public address Lincoln would deliver.)

1945: During World War II, American soldiers liberate the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany.

1947: Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers plays in an exhibition against the New York Yankees at Ebbets Field, four days before his regular-season debut that broke baseball’s color line.

1961: Former SS officer Adolf Eichmann goes on trial in Israel, charged with crimes against humanity for his role in the Nazi Holocaust. (Eichmann was convicted and executed.)

1968: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which includes the Fair Housing Act, a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

2002: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Ohio, is convicted of taking bribes and kickbacks from businessmen and his own staff. (Traficant was later expelled from Congress and sentenced to eight years in prison; he was released in September 2009 and died in 2014.)

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: TCI Cablevision institutes new monthly rates for business customers: $32.95 for office waiting rooms, $53.95 for taverns or restaurants seating fewer than 50, $104.95 for taverns or restaurants seating 51-250 customers, and $149.95 for taverns or restaurants seating more than 250.

Speaking to the Tri-District Conservation Club in Brookfield, Trumbull County outdoors writer Bruce Knodel says the federal government is building 43 prisons to incarcerate all gun owners and warns that by 2000 the United States could “return to being a nation of servitude and slavery.”

With the arrival of warm weather, Youngstown Postmaster Robert Furillo is warning residents to keep their dogs under control or face charges if a letter carrier is bitten.

1979: A Department of Commerce study rejects a proposed national steel research and demonstration center in Youngstown but holds out slim hope for a companion plan for a national blast furnace research facility at the Campbell Works.

A twin-engine plane carrying auto parts for the General Motors Lordstown plant crashes during a landing at Wyman Executive Airport in North Jackson. The pilot from Detroit suffered a broken arm.

The Army Corps of Engineers reports that the Lake Milton Dam needs $5 million in repairs, which should be paid for by the city of Youngstown, which owns it.

1969: The U.S. Internal Revenue Service files tax liens of almost $1.2 million against the estate of slain Youngstown racketeer Vince DeNiro.

Mahoning County commissioners may explore imposing a permissive countywide sales tax after a stormy meeting with the Welfare Rights Organization.

A frightened colt pulled an Amish buggy into a car parked at a Coitsville Township restaurant, damaged the car, broke his harness and set off for his New Wilmington, Pa., home at a gallop.

1944: Lt. Elizabeth Jean Heaslip, a graduate of Girard High School and the Youngstown Hospital School of Nursing, is shown in an Associated Press photo arriving on the Anzio beachhead carrying her barracks bag.

A lad who was once hailed as Youngstown’s youngest airplane pilot may become the Army’s youngest pilot. Cadet Lt. Edward Smith, a student at Castle Heights Military Academy in Tennessee, will be called to active duty when he graduates in June.

Pfc. Angelo Belfast, 22-year-old Marine, is home in Youngstown on a month’s furlough. He was seriously wounded in the chest in Bougainville and was carried 500 yards by a buddy, Paul Chappelle, to a base hospital where his life was saved by a transfusion.