YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 29

Today is Monday, April 29, the 119th day of 2019. There are 246 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1429: Joan of Arc enters the besieged city of Orleans to lead a French victory over the English.

1861: The Maryland House of Delegates votes 53-13 against seceding from the Union.

1945: During World War II, American soldiers liberate the Dachau concentration camp, Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun .

1967: Aretha Franklin’s cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” is released as a single by Atlantic Records.

1991: A cyclone strikes Bangladesh that would kill more than 138,000 people.

1992: A jury in Simi Valley, Calif., acquits four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of motorist Rodney King; the verdicts are followed by rioting in Los Angeles resulting in 55 deaths.

2008: Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama denounces his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, for what he termed “divisive and destructive” remarks on race.

2011: Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton are married in an opulent ceremony at London’s Westminster Abbey.

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1994: State Rep. June Lucas, D-Mineral Ridge, introduces legislation that would add three members to the two-member board of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District, which oversees the Valley’s largest water source, the Meander Reservoir.

Trumbull County commissioners are studying a proposal for a universal countywide curfew to deter juvenile crime and unruliness.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Poland, says a site investigation team from the General Services Administration will be visiting Youngstown to look at several potential locations for a new 53,600-square-foot federal courthouse.

1979: A new Bachelor of Science degree in nursing is authorized by the Youngstown State University board of trustees.

The retirement of Edgar B. Speer from the American steel industry’s No. 1 job, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp., raises questions about the future of a proposed $7 billion “green fields” steel plant at Conneaut.

A study shows that about half of the youngsters in grades one, two and three in the New Castle Area School District who are doing failing work are underage.

1969: While repeating its earlier endorsement of the Youngstown school levy, the special taxation committee of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce endorses school issues in Poland, Hubbard, Struthers and Western Reserve.

Jerry Knight, Youngstown planning administrator and former newsman, is named executive secretary of the Mahoning-Trumbull Council of Governments.

William F. Macklin is hired as principal of Brookfield High School.

1944: Marian Anderson arrives in Youngstown for her concert at Stambaugh Auditorium. Her eyes sparkle as she describes her Connecticut farm “Marianna,” where her new husband, famous architect Orpheus Fisher, lives.

Premier Joseph Stalin receives the Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski of Springfield, Mass., who supports the Union of Polish Patriots in Russia. Father Orlemanski is the brother of Mrs. Anna Kryzan of Youngstown and uncle of Atty. Anthony Kryzan, Lt. Frank Kryzan, Miss Marie Kryzan and Miss Clara Kryzan.

Col. Gilbert Van B. Wilkes, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Pittsburgh, ssures Warren Mayor Robert Roberts that he will cooperate to obtain a permit for Warren to use Meander Reservoir as a domestic water supply.