YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 18

Today is Thursday, April 18, the 108th day of 2019. There are 257 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1775: Paul Revere begins his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning colonists that British Regular troops are approaching.

1906: A devastating earthquake strikes San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000.

1945: Famed American war correspondent Ernie Pyle, 44, is killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa.

1983: Sixty-three people, including 17 Americans, are killed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.

1988: An Israeli court convicts John Demjanjuk, a retired auto worker from Cleveland, of committing war crimes at the Treblinka death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

2013: The FBI releases surveillance-camera images of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and asks for the public’s help in identifying them, hours after President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attended an interfaith service at a Roman Catholic cathedral.

2014: An avalanche sweeps down a climbing route on Mount Everest, killing 16 Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world’s highest peak.

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1994: The Mahoning County Coroner’s office is investigating the death of a 23-year-old woman who was found shot to death inside the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house at 265 Fairgreen Ave. The woman, from Butler, Pa., was not a YSU student.

Ohio Gov. George Voinovich releases a 35-page report by his 22-member Ohio Task Force on Gun Violence.

Three people are arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after a group of about 50 people gather outside the Bonnie Brae Avenue home of Kenneth Nemerovsky, the Warren man who is organizing a Ku Klux Klan rally in Warren.

1979: The Youngstown Board of Education notifies 68 teachers that their contracts for the coming school year have not been renewed. Perhaps half of them will be offered contracts before the new school year begins.

Carolyn Lee Houlihan of Youngstown, a senior at Ursuline High School, is Miss Ohio in the Miss USA pageant that will take place in New York City.

Boardman teachers vote to strike the school district over what Dan Dailey, president of the Boardman Teachers Association, said was the “unreasonableness” of the Boardman Board of Education’s failure to rehire 25 teachers.

1969: Members of the Mahoning County sheriff’s force reach a formal agreement to organize as Fraternal Order of Deputy Sheriffs Lodge No. 1 and hire Atty. Don L. Hanni as legal adviser.

About 300 acres of industrial land in Lowellville have been bought by a new corporation, Sharon Slag Inc., with Joseph Gennaro as president. The acreage originally was owned by Sharon Steel Hoop Co.

General Motors Corp. says the 4,000 school buses that received new brake parts in a nationwide recall should be removed from service at once. The modifications have been blamed for six minor accidents.

1944: Sen. Harold Burton, R-Ohio, discloses that he has prepared an amendment adding the $38 million Beaver-Mahoning Canal to the $400 million rivers and harbors authorization bill.

The Mahoning County Home sells its herd of 22 cattle to Superior Provision Co. of Massillon for the high bid of $2,035. The herd had been infected with mastitis and the barn will be disinfected before more milk cows are purchased.

An eight-month-old baby is dead and five other children are in St. Elizabeth Hospital, three in serious condition, from a fire that began when a kerosene lamp was knocked over in a locked bathroom. Dead is Lottie Martin.