YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 14
Today is Sunday, April 14, the 104th day of 2019. There are 261 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1775: The first American society for the abolition of slavery forms in Philadelphia.
1865: President Abraham Lincoln is shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater in Washington.
1902: James Cash Penney opens his first store, The Golden Rule, in Kemmerer, Wyo.
1912: The British liner RMS Titanic collides with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship’s time and begins sinking. (The ship went under two hours and 40 minutes later with the loss of 1,514 lives.)
1970: President Richard Nixon nominates Harry Blackmun to the U.S. Supreme Court. (The choice of Blackmun, who was unanimously confirmed by the Senate a month later, followed the failed nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell.)
1981: The first test flight of America’s first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ends successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1994: Two U.S. Air Force F-15 warplanes mistakenly shoot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters over northern Iraq, killing 26 people, including 15 Americans.
2009: Somali pirates seize four ships with 60 hostages.
2018: President Donald Trump declares “Mission Accomplished” for a U.S.-led allied missile attack on Syria’s chemical weapons program.
VINDICATOR FILES
1994: Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro promises a new, expanded study of the city’s sewer problems in the wake of several complaints of flood damage.
More than 125 print and television photojournalists are attending the two-day Ohio News Photographers Association’s annual convention at the Butler Institute of American Art and the Wick-Pollock Inn.
General Motors settles a lawsuit filed by Ypsilanti Township in Michigan that argued that the company’s announcement that a plant would be closed violated a 12-year tax abatement given to GM. The company agreed to spend $84 million at another Ypsilanti plant and create 500 jobs there, but will still close the Willow Run plant and move production to Arlington, Texas.
1979: Youngstown native June Weir, fashion news director of Vogue magazine, will be the final lecturer of the year in the Trumbull Town Hall Series at W.D. Packard Music Hall in Warren.
Dr. A. James Giannini is appointed to the Mahoning County Mental Health and Retardation 648 Board.
R.J. Wean, president and CEO of Wean United Inc., which has seen sales drop from $298 million in 1975 to $167 million in 1978, says he doesn’t expect any improvement through the first half of 1979.
1969: A three-alarm $800,000 fire sweeps through the A.G. Sharp Co. on Brittain Street. It took firemen an hour to bring the fire under control during which it threatened the Linde Air Products Co. and several homes.
Ned Brooks, a Youngs-town newspaperman for eight years before he went to Washington in 1932 to begin a brilliant career in newspaper, radio and television, dies in Washington after a long illness.
Youngstown firemen are investigating the source of a fire that caused $2,000 damage to the Green Gables Tavern at 910 Market St.
1944: Cartoons drawn by Sgt. Bill Mauldin will appear in The Vindicator. Ernie Pyle calls Mauldin “the finest cartoonist the war has produced.”
Dr. Gordon K. Chalmers, president of Kenyon College, stresses the importance of a liberal education in a talk to the Mahoning Valley Kenyon Alumni Association at the Elks Club.
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