YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 26

Today is Friday, April 26, the 116th day of 2019. There are 249 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1564: William Shakespeare is baptized at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.

1607: English colonists go ashore at present-day Cape Henry, Va., on an expedition to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.

1865: John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, is surrounded by federal troops near Port Royal, Va., and killed.

1933: Nazi Germany’s infamous secret police, the Gestapo, is created.

1945: Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the head of France’s Vichy government during World War II, is arrested.

1977: The legendary nightclub Studio 54 has its opening night in New York.

1986: An explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine causes radioactive fallout to begin spewing into the atmosphere.

1989: Actress-comedian Lucille Ball dies at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at age 77.

2009: The United States declares a public health emergency as more possible cases of swine flu surface from Canada to New Zealand.

2018: Bill Cosby is convicted of drugging and molesting Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Krista A. Blake, 22, of Columbiana, who had become a national spokesman for AIDS awareness, dies of pneumonia, a complication of AIDS, in University Hospital, Cleveland.

A group of Argentinians in Youngstown as part of their Rotary tour of the United States say the city is much more peaceful than they had imagined.

The League of Women Voters of Greater Youngstown and the human ecology department of Youngstown State University will sponsor a video conference, “Groundwater Protection – Looking for Solutions” in Cushwa Hall.

1979: A 23-year-old Niles Light Department employee is electrocuted while observing the installation of an electrical line at 120 Sayers Ave. David J. Hitchings was pronounced dead at Warren General Hospital.

Genia Silkes, former director of underground schools and a heroine of the Warsaw ghetto, will speak on “The Holocaust: A Warning” at the second annual Interfaith Holocaust Commemoration at Youngstown State University. She survived the Holocaust by jumping from a train that was bound for the Treblinka concentration camp.

Atty. Paul M. Dutton, a supporter of Youngstown State University since his undergraduate days there, is named a university trustee by Gov. James A. Rhodes to succeed Atty. John M. Newman.

1969: The Steel Valley Home for Girls is dedicated at 1460 Elm St. The home, which can house 10 girls, was purchased by the Youngstown Federation of Women’s Clubs.

Paul Lange, president of Peoples Bank, tells Rotarians that the trend toward “riots, protests and complete lack of respect for authority,” especially on college campuses, must stop or the nation will be lost.

Joseph Spatara is Mahoning County’s adult winner in the Ohio Department of Highway Safety’s traffic slogan essay contest with an entry, “Treat Every Motorist as Your Best Friend.”

1944: Coroner David Hauser returns a verdict of justifiable homicide in the slaying of E. Quay McHenry, 40, of Custer Avenue, who was shot by police during a high speed chase after a tavern disturbance.

The Ohio Supreme Court rules that the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority must pay real estate taxes on Westlake Terrace.

Youngstown’s youngest triplets, Donna Jean, Gertrude Mae and Kathleen Ann Kent, celebrate their third birthday.