YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 19

Today is Friday, April 19, the 109th day of 2019. There are 256 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1775: The American Revolutionary War begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.

1865: A funeral is held at the White House for President Abraham Lincoln, assassinated five days earlier; his coffin is then taken to the U.S. Capitol for a private memorial service in the Rotunda.

1943: During World War II, tens of thousands of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin a valiant but ultimately futile battle against Nazi forces.

1989: Forty-seven sailors are killed when a gun turret explodes aboard the USS Iowa in the Caribbean.

1993: The 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends as fire destroys the structure after federal agents begin smashing their way in; about 80 people, including two dozen children and sect leader David Koresh, are killed.

1995: A truck bomb destroys the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.

2005: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany is elected pope in the first conclave of the new millennium; he takes the name Benedict XVI.

2013: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings, is taken into custody.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro says the city will challenge the sale of bulk water from the Meander Reservoir to a proposed Azko Salt Co. mine in North Jackson, whether the water is sold by Niles or the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.

The 50-50 Role Model Club will honor its founder and president, McCullough Williams Jr. at a dinner at Mr. Anthony’s. Proceeds will benefit the club’s educational fund.

On the fourth anniversary of GF Furniture Systems Inc. filing bankruptcy, some of the 1,700 employees and retirees who lost their health insurance will hold a rally to protest their treatment by the legal system.

1979: The Ohio Edison Co. asks the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to approve extra charges of $9 million to its customers to help cover the cost of shutting down the Beaver Valley nuclear plant in Western Pennsylvania.

Two young women are killed instantly when their car is rammed by a Conrail freight train at a downtown East Liverpool crossing. Killed were Debra L. Obney and Mary Lutton, both 24 of East Liverpool.

City and federal officials are on hand to open the new Republic Hose Manufacturing Co. at the former Albert Street site of Aeroquip Corp.’s Republic Rubber Division. The plant is expected to have 150 employees at work within two weeks.

1969: District 26, United Steelworkers of America, establishes a scholarship fund to provide five scholarships of $2,400 each to five sons or daughters of USW members yearly.

Youngstown Fire Capt. Roy Gelonese is injured when he falls through the second floor of a burning vacant house on Poland Avenue and lands on his back. He was taken to South Side Hospital by ambulance.

Wintry weather returns overnight with temperatures dipping into the 30s. Some snow is forecast. In Ashtabula, high waves washed away causeways and created flood conditions.

1944: Mahoning County Sheriff Ralph Elser tells a dinner meeting at the Coitsville Presbyterian Church that the “gentleman racketeer” who may have a wife in the choir and belongs to a luncheon club “is far worse than the back alley rats.”

Alexander Frankowski, 52, an employee of General Fireproofing Co., dies in South Side Hospital of a bone infection as precious penicillin trickled into his body. This is the third time penicillin has been used here.

Forty-nine district Ohioans, including 24 Youngstown men, are with the Buckeye glider troops ready for the invasion of Hitler’s European fortress.