Editor’s note: Today’s Years Ago was inadvertently published on yesterday’s Et

Editor’s note: Today’s Years Ago was inadvertently published on yesterday’s Et Cetera page. Below is the column that should have run:

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On April 16 in:

1789: President-elect George Washington leaves Mount Vernon, Va., for his inauguration in New York.

1862: During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. The Confederacy conscripts all white men between the ages of 18 and 35.

1889: Comedian and movie director Charlie Chaplin is born in London.

1972: Apollo 16 blasts off on a voyage to the moon.

1986: Dispelling rumors he was dead, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi appears on television to condemn the U.S. raid on his country.

2003: The Bush administration lowers the terror alert level from orange to yellow, saying the end of heavy fighting in Iraq had diminished the threat of terrorism in the United States.

2007: In one of America’s worst school attacks, a college senior kills 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech before taking his own life.

2008: The Supreme Court upholds, 7-2, the most widely used method of lethal injection, allowing states to resume executions after a seven-month halt.

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1994: A small plane crashes while attempting to land at the Salem Air Park in Goshen Township killing three members of a Michigan family, Brian E. Jiggens, 34; Lisa Jiggens, 35, and their son, Caleb, 4.

The congregation of Austintown Community Church marks the 150th anniversary of the church’s founding.

Six Youngstown area players, led by Gary Jones, Mike Repasky and Dennis Pachner, are helping the Ohio State Buckeyes baseball team to build a 21-5 record. Also on the squad are Ron Nelson, Gary Fragle and Dan Mathews.

1979: A study by two sociologists at Northeastern University in Boston found that of 173 black persons charged with murdering a white person under Ohio’s capital punishment law passed in 1973, 37 (21.4 percent) received the death penalty. Of 47 whites charged with murdering a black, none received the death penalty.

Dr. Louis Zona, chairman of the Youngstown State University art department, and some of his students judge The Vindicator’s Easter coloring contest. Winners are Scott Carte, Maria Penza, Janice and Keith Reichard, Michael Gleydura, Celeste Koulianos and Frankie and Cathy Giangiulo.

Coming to Sandalini’s Top of the Mall for two shows nightly on April 26, 27 and 28, former heavyweight champion of the world Joe Frazier and a cast of 19 in a musical revue.

1969: Members of the Mahoning County sheriff’s department, most of whom have withdrawn their request for representation by Teamsters Local 377, are looking for another organization to act as their bargaining agent.

Fred W. Weller, 80, prominent Youngstown funeral director, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Columbiana Fire Chief Earl Hicks reports increasing problems with thrill-seekers who follow firetrucks on their runs hampering volunteer firefighters responding to the alarm in private cars and creating traffic problems.

1944: Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert, candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, will open his campaign in Youngstown with a speech to the Mahoning County Republican Women’s Club.

Herbert Mooney, state welfare director, will meet with city council and the Chamber of Commerce executive committee to discuss the possibility of the state leasing the municipal hospital on East Indianola Avenue as a state hospital for mental patients.

Kline’s spring sale has women’s crisp cotton dresses, two for $3; women’s coats and suits, $15 each; Cannon bath towels, 39 cents each, and wash cloths for 10 cents each.