YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 20

Today is Saturday, April 20, the 110th day of 2019. There are 255 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1898: The United States moves closer to war with Spain as President William McKinley signs a congressional resolution before recognizing Cuban independence and authorizing U.S. military intervention to achieve that goal.

1971: The Supreme Court unanimously upholds the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.

1988: Gunmen who had hijacked a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet were allowed safe passage out of Algeria under an agreement that freed the remaining 31 hostages and ended a 15-day siege in which two passengers were slain.

1999: The Columbine High School massacre takes place in Colorado as two students shoot and kill 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives.

2003: U.S. Army forces take control of Baghdad from the Marines in a changing of the guard that thins the military presence in the capital.

2010: An explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, leased by BP, kills 11 workers.

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1994: Warren school officials acknowledge that there were problems with violence at Western Reserve Junior High School at the beginning of the year, but say matters are under control. In February, a 14-year-old girl cut a boy’s throat with a hunting knife requiring 13 stitches, and in March, a 14-year-old boy required medical treatment after being beaten by two boys.

Wally Amos, who founded Famous Amos Cookie Co. in 1975 and was forced out of the company in 1989, talks about the ups and downs of his business life in Williamson Hall at Youngstown State University.

Canfield city officials are looking for solutions to localized flooding caused by beavers who have built a dam on a stream along Conrail tracks near Shadydale Drive.

1979: U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams will ask for meetings with officials of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and mayors of cities in his district to find out why HUD refused their proposals for urban development grants.

Speaking at a Warren Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon, U.S. Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, says the Carter administration was right to demand that there be significant private funding for any large-scale plan to reopen the Campbell Works.

The Most Rev. William A. Hughes, auxiliary bishop of the Youngstown Diocese and bishop designate of the Covington, Ky., Diocese, ordains four deacons, Richard Murphy, Anthony Pastucci, Peter Polando and Philip Rogers Jr.

1969: Urging a “yes” vote on Youngstown’s school levy, Atty. Gen. Paul W. Brown, a city native, says, “We won’t have a future if we can’t educate our children.” He was speaking to more than 500 people honoring him at a dinner in the Mural Room.

A large storeroom being razed at 1212 Oak Hill Ave. topples against an adjacent store and house. Members of the Noah Brooks family were standing on the sidewalk watching when debris fell on their home.

The late publisher of a weekly Warren newspaper, Marie Nela Martin, has endowed a foundation dedicated to the arts for the use by citizens of Trumbull County. It will be called the Martini Martin Arts Foundation.

1944: Speaking at a rally sponsored by the Mahoning County Republican Women’s Club, Atty. Gen. Thomas J. Herbert, Republican candidate for governor, says the state should give full assistance to local communities working to wipe out organized racketeering.

Staff Sgt. Conrad Pope was a football hero at Struthers High School two years ago. Today the 19-year-old Struthers man is a hero in the Army Air Force having participated in 27 combat missions against the Japanese.

State Welfare Director Herbert Mooney urges city officials to prepare a preliminary proposal for the sale or rental to the state of the vacant Youngstown Municipal Hospital on East Indianola Avenue.