Thursday, April 25, 2019
Today is Thursday, April 25, the 115th day of 2019. There are 250 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1507: A world map produced by German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller contains the first recorded use of the term “America,” in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
1859: Ground is broken for the Suez Canal.
1898: The United States Congress declares war on Spain; the 10-week conflict results in an American victory.
1915: During World War I, Allied soldiers invade the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war.
1945: During World War II, U.S. and Soviet forces link up on the Elbe River, a meeting that dramatizes the collapse of Nazi Germany’s defenses.
1959: The St. Lawrence Seaway opens to shipping.
1972: Polaroid Corp. introduces its SX-70 folding camera, which ejects self-developing photographs.
1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is deployed in orbit from the space shuttle Discovery.
1995: Show business legend Ginger Rogers dies at 83.
2018: Ford Motor Co. says it will get rid of most of its North American car lineup.
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1994: The Mahoning County Convention and Visitors Bureau is restructuring its board and activities in an effort to survive, while county commissioners consider giving the $265,000 produced by a 3 percent bed tax to the Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Nearly half of the 3.9 million children living in the nation’s worst neighborhoods live in six states: Ohio, California, Illinois, New York, Michigan and Texas.
An overflow crowd attends the Mahoning County Democratic Party pre-election brunch at the Georgetown, where they give a standing ovation to U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr.’s endorsement of Chairman Don L. Hanni Jr.
1979: Passenger cars and van lines at the Lordstown General Motors plant are rolling again after three days of work stoppages that idled 5,000 employees.
Three volunteers win Silver Beaver awards, the highest volunteer honor in Boy Scouting, from the Western Reserve Council, Boy Scouts of America: Alberta Ellwood of Niles, Carol J. McClure of Newton Falls and Earl Freet of Warren.
Sohio announces its third gasoline-price increase in a month, bringing the cost of regular gas at the pump to 80 cents a gallon, 84 cents for unleaded.
1969: Rear Adm. Harry Foley Jr., commander of the U.S. Naval Aviation Supply Office in Philadelphia, presents the Navy Cross to Mrs. Carolyn Powell in ceremonies posthumously honoring her son, Navy Hospitalman Richard Powell, a Chaney graduate killed while tending the wounded in Vietnam.
Susan LaForce, 22, a nurse in the cardiac intensive care unit of South Side Hospital, plans to marry Dr. Shantikumar Gandhi, 29, the grandson of Mahandas Gandhi.
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1944: U.S. iron and steel producers, big and small, declare that they are unable to absorb any wage increases and pronounce the demands of the United Steelworkers of America unwarranted.
A Youngstown delegation is being organized to pursue post-war construction of the proposed Beaver-Mahoning Waterway at a Senate commerce subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C.
Robert Cash, 5, of Park Avenue, who was accidentally shot in the head by a playmate, dies in St. Elizabeth Hospital. He was wounded when a playmate found a revolver and fired it out a window at Robert.