YEARS AGO FOR APRIL 30

Today is Tuesday, April 30, the 120th day of 2019. There are 245 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1789: George Washington takes the oath of office in New York as the first president of the United States.

1803: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for about $15 million.

1812: Louisiana becomes the 18th state of the Union.

1912: Universal Studios has its beginnings as papers incorporating the Universal Film Manufacturing Co. are filed in New York state.

1945: As Soviet troops approach his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.

1968: New York City police forcibly remove student demonstrators occupying five buildings at Columbia University.

1973: President Richard Nixon announces the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean, who was actually fired.

1975: The Vietnam War ends as the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon falls to Communist forces.

2009: Chrysler files for bankruptcy protection; the federal government pledges up to $8 billion in additional aid and to back warranties.

2014: Iraq votes in its first nationwide election since U.S. troops withdrew in 2011.

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1994: New signs go up on former Dollar Savings and Trust outlets in the Mahoning Valley identifying them as National City banks.

Frank DeJute, one of two members of the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District, says legislation introduced by June Lucas, D-Mineral Ridge, to add three members to the board is a personal vendetta. Lucas says she has nothing personal against DeJute, but wants to see improvements at MVSD.

Hiram College officials select Canton-based Hammond Construction as the general contractor for the college’s new $7.1 million library.

1979: The Packard Electric Division of General Motors buys a 217,000-square-foot plant near Ravenna for additional manufacturing space.

Dr. Howard W. Jones, whose labors on behalf of Youngstown College, Youngstown University and Youngstown State University span 48 years, is stepping down as chairman and CEO of the Youngstown Education Foundation. He retired as president of YU in 1966 and was asked to head the foundation in 1967.

Deaf Catholics in Youngstown are organizing the first parish for the deaf under the leadership of a Warren priest, the Rev. Terrence Hazel. Weekly masses for the deaf or hard of hearing take place at the YSU Newman Center or St. Mary Church in Warren.

1969: Some $3,000 is raised to benefit 8-year-old Brian Ciminero of Niles at a style and fashion show at Mr. B’s Foods. Brian has a rare blood disease and had to have his legs amputated as a result of poor circulation.

Named National Merit Scholars from Mahoning County are James Matey, Dean Mayors, Jack Hay, David Wrikeman and Jeanne Sankey; from Trumbull County, Michael Moritz, Linda Gourley, Nadia Lahutsky and Susan McGreevey.

Early June is the soonest the Interstate 80-Route 11 interchange in Austintown Township will open, six months later than scheduled.

1944: Andrew Mild from Woodland Avenue Lutheran Church, missionary to Australia and New Guinea since 1938, has been rescued with 11 other American missionaries and nuns by Tokyo-bound MacArthur forces in New Guinea.

A large delegation of Youngstown industrial, labor and civic leaders leaves for Washington, D.C., to attend the Senate commerce subcommittee hearing on the Beaver-Mahoning Canal.

Barbara Ruth Floding of Leetonia will be queen of the May Day pageant at Grove City College.