Saturday, April 13, 2019
Today is Saturday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2019. There are 262 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1743: The third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, is born in Shadwell in the Virginia Colony.
1917: American business tycoon James “Diamond Jim” Brady, known for his jewelry collection as well as his hearty appetite, dies in Atlantic City, N.J. at age 60.
1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of the third American president’s birth.
1964: Sidney Poitier becomes the first black performer in a leading role to win an Academy Award for his performance in “Lilies of the Field.”
1970: Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, is crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. (The astronauts managed to return safely.)
1997: Tiger Woods becomes the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament and the first player of partly African heritage to claim a major golf title.
2018: President Donald Trump announces that the United States, France and Britain have carried out joint airstrikes in Syria meant to punish President Bashar Assad for his alleged use of chemical weapons.
VINDICATOR FILES
1994: Austintown Township has two new trustees, Warren Pritchard and David Ditzler, but the first big rain of the new year brought the same complaints from residents about raw sewage and storm water flooding basements.
Boardman native and former Cleveland Brown quarterback Bernie Kosar agrees to contract terms with the Miami Dolphins.
Members of the Northeast Homeowners and Concerned Citizens of the East Side angrily question Youngstown’s liberal use of 100 percent tax abatements for businesses, but Law Director Edwin Romero defends the practice as a job creator.
1979: Howland Schools Superintendent James Hyre will leave the district when his contract expires July 31 to become superintendent of Canton City Schools.
The Kroger Co. is reportedly negotiating to take over an unknown number of A&P stores in the Youngstown district.
County and city judges greet the Ohio Supreme Court’s order admitting cameras into their courtrooms with mixed emotions with most having misgivings of one kind or another.
1969: At the 65th annual reunion of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of Youngstown, seven 50-year members are honored: William P. Hughes, Floyd B. McFetrich, Frank C. Swartz, William J. Morgan, Ralph P. White, Lamech Lawton and William McCreary.
More than 60 East Side adults have been designated as “block parents” in action by residents in that area to protect school children from danger of all types on their way to and from school.
Max Shagrin, a theater operator in the Youngstown area before moving to California in 1931, where he was an agent for actors, writers and directors, dies of a heart attack at his Hollywood home. Among others, he leaves an identical twin, Joe, who also managed theaters in the area.
1944: The United Tube Corp.’s Ellwood City, Pa., plant, which employed 300 in war work, is destroyed by fire. Assistant Fire Chief Arthur Duncan estimates the loss at $150,000 to $200,000.
David J. Edwards, a member of the United Spanish American War Veterans, and Leslie J. Harbison, a member of the VFW and Disabled American Veterans, are appointed to the Mahoning County Soldiers Relief Commission by county judges.
Cpl. Emil Elias, 22-year-old Marine from Struthers, escapes death 12 times the night of Feb. 19. After surviving an explosion of TNT and hand grenades tossed in his foxhole, Japanese searched him 11 times while he lay wounded and played “possum.”