April 26
 
1995: Mahoning Valley Chevrolet and Pontiac dealers say they can't get enough of the 1995 Lordstown-built Cavaliers and Sunfires to meet buyer demands. 

Delphi Packard Electric Systems announces its third joint venture in China, producing wiring harnesses for sale in North America and Asia.

Youngstown 5th Ward Councilman Jerome McNally, who appeared on television pulling an alarm box in what he said was a test of how quickly firefighters would respond, is acquitted in Youngstown Municipal Court of attempting a false alarm after he testified that he knew the alarm box wasn't working.
 
1980: First Lt. Jeffrey Harrison, 26, of Howland, a recent graduate of the Air Force Academy, is one of four men burned when a helicopter and C-130 collided during a failed mission to free the hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. 

John B. Tidwell pleads no contest to second degree murder in the shotgun slayings of industrialist C. Walter Holmquist and his wife, Dorothy, in their Cortland home in 1973. A 1978 trial in Trumbull County ended in a hung jury.

Sharon D. Ritchie will be May Queen at Westminster College. Members of her court are Linda S. Orr, Erin E. Dowling, Christine Fontana, Rebecca J. Fox, Amy Clarke and Andrea Burin.
 
1970: Youngstown State University grounds crews show off the campus's colorful tulip beds near the planetarium.

Richard Block, a Rayen School junior, wins at the Northern Ohio National Forensic League Student Congress finals in West Richfield, qualifying him for the national tournament in June in Kansas City. 

Campbell City Council fails to pass a budget ordinance that would have allowed the city to pay its employees and would have brought an end to the six-day strike by police.
 
1945: Youngstown's leading fraternal organizations have tossed out slot machines in the wake of a federal investigation of operations in the area.

The judiciary committee of the Ohio Senate votes to outlaw Bingo. The move was vigorously opposed by Eagles, Elks and Moose lodges.

Federal housing is a "danger to democracy and free enterprise," Douglas High, president of the Ohio Board of Realtors, tells Youngstown area real estate agents.