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Ohio is the only state to have a flag shaped
like
a pennant.
(SFEC, 4/25/99, Z1 p.8)
The state motto is "With God, all things are possible." In 2001
a US court of Appeals ruled that the motto is constitutionally
acceptable.
(SFC, 3/17/01, p.A3)
1749 Nov 2, The
English Ohio Trade Company formed its 1st trade post.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1753 Oct, Robert Dinwiddie,
governor of Virginia, called a meeting to discuss the eviction of
British settlers from homesteads west of the Appalachian Mountains by
French soldiers from Canada. Major George Washington volunteered to
deliver a letter of trespass to French authorities in the Ohio Valley.
(ON, 9/05, p.1)
1753 Dec 12, George Washington,
the adjutant of Virginia, delivered an ultimatum to the French forces
at Fort Le Boeuf, south of Lake Erie, reiterating Britain’s claim to
the entire Ohio river valley.
(HN, 12/12/98)
1753 Dec 14, French Captain
Jacques Le Gardeur rejected the pretensions of the English to ownership
of the Ohio Valley, but promised to forward Virginia Gov. Dinwiddie’s
letter of trespass to his superiors in Canada.
(ON, 9/05, p.2)
1754 Jan 6, Major George
Washington, while returning to Virginia, encountered a party of English
settlers and militiamen at Will’s Creek sent by Gov. Dinwiddie to
establish a fort and trading post at the Forks of the Ohio.
(ON, 9/05, p.2)
1754 Apr 2, A small expeditionary
force of 159 men under Lt. Col. George Washington arrived at Will’s
Creek and learned that the French had taken over the new Fort Prince
George at the Forks of the Ohio from British soldiers and frontiersmen
and renamed it Fort Duquesne.
(ON, 9/05, p.2)
1763 May 7, Indian chief Pontiac
began his attack on a British fort in present-day Detroit, Michigan.
Ottawa Chief Pontiac led an uprising in the wild, distant lands that
later became Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
(HN, 7/24/98)(HN, 5/7/99)
1768 Nov 5, William Johnson, the
northern Indian Commissioner, signed a treaty with the Iroquois Indians
to acquire much of the land between the Tennessee and Ohio rivers for
future settlement.
(HN, 11/5/98)
1774 Sep 26, John Chapman
(d.1845), later known as Johnny Appleseed, was born in
Massachusetts. A pioneer agriculturalist of early America,
Chapman began his trek in 1797, collecting apple seedlings from western
Pennsylvania and establishing apple nurseries around the early American
frontier. Chapman was a Swedenborgian missionary, a land speculator, a
heavy drinker and an eccentric dresser (he hated shoes and seldom wore
them. He planted orchards across western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and
Indiana from seed.
(www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=94)(T&L, 10/1980,
p.42)(HNQ, 9/4/01)(ON, 4/09, p.10)
1777 George Washington led a
campaign against the British and their Iroquois allies in Pennsylvania,
New York, and the Ohio country. These included the Six Nations Indians:
Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Oneida, and Tuscarora. In 2005 Glenn
F. Williams published “The Year of the Hangman: George Washington’s
Campaign Against the Iroquois.
(WSJ, 7/26/05, p.D8)
1782 Mar 8, The Gnadenhutten
massacre took place as some 90 Christian Delaware Indians were slain by
militiamen in Ohio in retaliation for raids carried out by other
Indians.
(AP, 3/8/98)(AH, 4/07, p.14)
1785 Jan 21, Chippewa, Delaware,
Ottawa and Wyandot Indians signed a treaty of Fort McIntosh, ceding
present-day Ohio to the United States.
(HN, 1/21/99)
1790 May 26, Territory South of
River Ohio was created by Congress.
(AP, 5/26/98)
1794 Aug 20, American General "Mad
Anthony" Wayne defeated the Ohio Indians at the Battle of Fallen
Timbers in the Northwest territory, ending Indian resistance in the
area.
(HN, 8/20/98)
1796 Jul 22, Cleveland, Ohio, was
founded by Gen. Moses Cleaveland. Moses Cleaveland came to where the
city of Cleveland now sits and surveyed the land. After three months he
returned to Connecticut. The city bears his name.
(SFC, 6/2/96, T10)(AP, 7/22/97)
1803 Feb 19, Congress voted to
accept Ohio's borders and constitution. However, Congress did not get
around to formally ratifying Ohio statehood until 1953.
(AP, 2/19/98)
1803 Mar 1, Ohio became the 17th
state.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1804 Jan 5, Ohio legislature
passed the 1st laws restricting free blacks movement. [see Mar 28]
(MC, 1/5/02)
1804 Mar 28, Ohio passed law
restricting movement of Blacks. [see Jan 5]
(MC, 3/28/02)
1806 Nov 16, Moses Cleaveland
(52), the land surveyor for whom the city of Cleveland is named, died
in Canterbury, Conn.
(AP, 11/16/06)
1808 Jun 1, The first US
land-grant university was founded-Ohio Univ., Athens, Ohio.
(DT internet 6/1/97)
1814 Jul 22, Five Indian tribes in
Ohio made peace with the United States and declared war on Britain.
(HN, 7/22/98)
1814 Dec 19, Edwin McMasters
Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), was born in Ohio.
(MC, 12/19/01)
1815 Oct 29, Daniel Decatur
Emmett, the composer of "Dixie," which became the unofficial national
anthem of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, was born in
Mount Vernon, Ohio. Organizer of one of the first minstrel shows,
"Dixie" was written in 1859 as a concluding number, or "walk-around,"
for a minstrel show. Emmett died on June 28, 1904.
(HNQ, 3/21/99)
1818 The Libbey Glass Co. of
Toledo, Ohio, was founded as the New England Glass Company by Edward
Drummond Libbey. Libbey collected glass "through the ages" in a museum
for the inspiration his workers. In 1999 it was a division of
Owens-Illinois.
(SFC, 3/31/99, Z1 p.6)(WSJ, 10/19/01, p.W15)
1822 Apr 27, Ulysses S. Grant
(d.1885), general and 18th U.S. president (1869-1877), was born in
Point Pleasant [Hiram], Ohio.
(AP, 4/27/97)(HN, 4/27/02)
1822 Oct 4, Rutherford B. Hayes,
the 19th president (R) of the United States, was born in Delaware,
Ohio. Hayes was a major-general in the Civil War, then an Ohio
congressman, then succeeded Grant as president (1877-81). Hayes won the
Electoral College by a margin of one vote after his opponent won the
popular vote in an election so fraught with charges of vote fraud that
there were even fears of a coup. Hayes refused to seek a second
term.
(AP, 10/4/97)(HN, 10/4/98)(MC, 10/3/01)
1823 John Rankin, Presbyterian
minister, moved to Ripley, Ohio, and soon established the Ripley Line
of the underground railroad. In 2003 Ann Hagedorn authored "Beyond the
River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad." In
2005 Fergus M. Bordewich authored “Bound for Canaan,” a look at the
people involved in the UR operations.
(WSJ, 1/30/03, p.D8)(WSJ, 3/29/05, p.D6)
1827 Feb 28, The first U.S.
railroad chartered to carry passengers and freight, the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Co., was incorporated.
(AP, 2/28/98)
1827 Aug 10, There were race riots
in Cincinnati and some 1,000 blacks left for Canada.
(MC, 8/10/02)
1830 Nicholas Longworth planted a
Catawba grape vineyard near Cincinnati. He was later hailed as the 1st
to successfully raise vinifera grapes in the US. [see Kentucky 1799]
(WSJ, 11/24/00, p.W8)
1831 Nov 19, James A. Garfield
(d.1881) the 20th Pres. of the US, was born in Orange Township, Ohio.
(WUD, 1994, p.584)(AP, 11/19/08)
1831 The Ohio city of Cincinnati
became known as "Pork polis". Strategically located on the banks of the
Ohio River, Cincinnati gained the nickname because it was then
America‘s greatest meat packing center.
(HNQ, 3/16/00)
1832 Mar 24, Mormon founder,
martyr Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio.
(MC, 3/24/02)
1833 Aug 20, Benjamin Harrison,
the 23rd president of the United States (1889-1893) and grandson of
President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
(HN 8/20/97)(AP, 8/20/99)(MC, 8/20/02)
1833 Dec 3, Oberlin College in
Ohio, the first truly coeducational school of higher learning in the
United States, opened its doors.
(AP, 12/3/98)
1835 Ohio and Michigan engaged in
“The Toledo War” (1835–1836), also known as the Ohio-Michigan War, a
bloodless boundary dispute that was settled in 1836.
(WSJ, 5/31/08,
p.W9)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War)
1836 Mar 27, The first Mormon
temple was dedicated, in Kirtland, Ohio.
(AP, 3/27/97)(HN, 3/27/98)(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1837 Jul 31, William Clarke
Quantrill (d.1865), Confederate guerrilla leader, was born at Canal
Dover, Ohio.
(www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/QQ/fqu3.html)
1837 Sep 6, The Oberlin Collegiate
Institute of Ohio went co-educational.
(AP, 9/6/97)(http://tinyurl.com/lcgnj)
1837 Conflicts broke up the Mormon
communities in Missouri and Ohio.
(NW, 9/10/01, p.48)
1837 The Procter & Gamble
Company was formed in Cincinnati, Ohio. William Procter and James A.
Gamble built a business manufacturing soap and candles from the tallow
produced by the city’s thriving meat packing industry. In 2004 Davis
Dyer, Frederick Dalzell and Rowena Olegario authored “Rising Tide,” a
history of Procter and Gamble.
(WSJ, 1/15/97, p.A12)(WSJ, 7/23/04, p.W12)(Econ,
8/11/07, p.61)
1838 Sep 23, Victoria Chaflin
Woodhull (d.1927), American presidential candidate (1872), was born
into a family of charlatans in Ohio. Woodhull, a militant suffragist,
advocated free love and was Wall Street's first female broker after
attracting Cornelius Vanderbilt. She was the first woman to address
Congress. Her story is documented in “The Woman Who Ran for President:
The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull” by Lois Beachy Underhill. In 1998
Mary Gabriel published "Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria
Woodhull, Uncensored. In 1998 Barbara Goldsmith published "Other
Powers--The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism and the Scandalous Victoria
Woodhull."
(WSJ, 7/25/95, p.A-10)(SFEC, 2/22/98, BR p.5)(SFEC,
3/8/98, Par p.14)(HNPD, 4/28/00)
1838 Amid rising debts and rumors
of polygamy, the Mormons moved from Ohio to Far West, Mo., where they
clashed violently with other settlers. [see 1839]
(SFC, 4/9/96, A-7)
1838 The Buckeye Brewing Co. of
Toledo, Ohio, began operations. Green Seal Select Beer was one of their
early brands. The company continued until 1972.
(SFC, 2/13/08, p.G8)
1841-1921 Of the 11 U.S. presidents serving between
1841 and 1921, seven of them were born in Ohio. The presidents and
their places of birth were: Ulysses S. Grant, Point Pleasant;
Rutherford B. Hayes, Delaware; James A. Garfield, Orange; Benjamin
Harrison, North Bend; William McKinley, Niles; William H. Taft,
Cincinnati; Warren G. Harding, Morrow County. These were the only
Ohio-born presidents. Three of them, Garfield, McKinley and Harding
died in office. Four of the seven presidents hailing from Ohio died
while in office. They were William Henry Harrison, the 9th president,
who died one month after his inauguration in 1841; the 20th president,
James Garfield, who was assassinated in 1881; William McKinley, the
25th president, who was assassinated in 1901; and Warren G.
Harding, who died suddenly in 1923.
(HNQ, 5/9/98)(HNQ, 6/7/99)
1842 Jun 24, Ambrose Bierce
(d.1914), American writer, satirist, was born in Meigs County, Ohio..
(HN, 6/24/98)(SFEC, 11/8/98, BR p.3)(AP, 6/24/99)
1843 Jan 29, The 25th president of
the United States, William McKinley, was born in Niles, Ohio. McKinley
was the last Civil War veteran to serve as President of the United
States. He had served with the 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteers,
eventually rising to the rank of brevet major. He saw action at South
Mountain, Antietam, Winchester and Cedar Creek. For a time he served on
Rutherford B. Hayes' staff. McKinley was elected the 25th president in
1896. He led the country in the Spanish-American War. He died in
Buffalo, New York, on September 14, 1901, after being shot by an
anarchist assassin on September 6.
(AP, 1/29/98)(HNQ, 11/13/98)
1843 Jun 1, It snowed in Buffalo
and Rochester N.Y., and also in Cleveland Ohio.
(DT internet 6/1/97)
1847 Feb 11, American inventor
Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio. He was the inventor of the
first electric light bulb and pioneer of the motion picture industry.
He also Invented at least 1,300 other items.
(HN, 2/11/97)(AP, 2/11/97)
1847 Dec 16, Mary Catherwood
(d.1901), American novelist, was born in Luray, Ohio. "Next to the
slanderer, we detest the bearer of the slander to our ears."
(http://ntweb1.cpl.org/ocb/index.php?q=node/11&id=149)(AP, 6/9/97)
1847 Richard Mitchell (1811-1899)
and Frederick Rammelsberg (1814-1863) founded Mitchell &
Rammelsberg to manufacture furniture in Cincinnati, Ohio.
(SFC, 12/19/07,
p.G5)(http://witherells.com/inventory/popup/hatrack1.htm)
1847-1852 Durfee’s Knickerbocker root beer was
bottled in Rochester, New York, during this period. Durfee used a
12-sided bottle in Ohio and New York. In 2008 the bottles were valued
at about $125.
(SFC, 3/26/08, p.G3)
1848 Joseph Hall founded Hall’s
Safe & Lock Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio.
(SFC, 8/16/06, p.G7)
1848 The W.C. Davis Co. was
founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, to manufacture cast-iron stoves and
cookware. In 1880 the factory was enlarged and the name was changed to
Favorite Stove Works. A new owner, William King Boal, moved the firm to
Piqua in 1889. In 1934 the company went out of business and sold the
Favorite cookware line to Chicago Hardware Foundry Co.
(SFC, 1/10/07, p.G3)
c1850 Jan 30, Charles Steingraff
(50), a bachelor farmhand, was hanged in Ohio for the murder of a deaf
and blind, 12-year-old girl. An estimated 25,000 spectators watched the
execution.
(ON, 10/02, p.3)
1850 Apr, The side-wheel steamship
General Anthony Wayne sank in 50 feet of water in lake Erie about
eight miles north of Vermilion, Ohio. 38 of the 93 passengers and crew
on board died. The wreckage was discovered in 2007.
(AP, 6/21/07)
1850 Cincinnati, the largest
meat-packing center in the United States at that time, earned the name
Porkopolis.
(HNQ, 10/15/00)
1850s In Cincinnati abolitionist
Nicholas Longworth hired Robert Scott Duncanson to paint 8 large murals
in his home. The murals were covered by wallpaper by 1869 and not
uncovered until 1931. The house and a large art collection were given
to the city by Charles and Anna Taft around 1928.
(WSJ, 8/8/00, p.A20)
1851 Jan 25, Sojourner Truth
addressed the 1st Black Women's Rights Convention in Akron. [see May
28, 1851]
(MC, 1/25/02)
1851 May 28, Freed slave and
abolitionist Sojourner Truth attended a national women's convention in
Akron, Ohio, where the female delegates were heckled by men in the
audience who claimed that men were superior to women. Frances Gage,
president of the convention, recorded Sojourner Truth's words that day.
"Dat man ober dar say dat women needs to be helped into carriages and
lifted ober ditches, and to hab de best place everywhar. Nobody eber
helps me into carriages, or ober mud-puddles, or gibs me any best
place! And ain't I a woman! Look at me! Look at my arm! I have
ploughed, and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head
me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a
man--when I could get it--and bear de lash as well! And ain't I a
woman? I have borne thirteen chilern, and seen 'em mos' all sold into
slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus
heard me! And ain't I a woman?" Sojourner Truth's words, according to
Gage, "turned the sneers and jeers of an excited crowd into notes of
respect and admiration."
(SFC, 3/30/97, Z1 p.6)(HN, 7/13/99)(MC, 5/28/02)
1851 Simon Lazarus, a rabbinical
scholar from Germany, opened a dry-goods store in Columbus, Ohio. The
operation grew to become F&R Lazarus, after the names of his sons,
who in 1929 created the Federated Dept. Store chain. The downtown
Columbus store closed in 2004.
(WSJ, 5/19/07,
p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lazarus)
1852 Mar 29, Ohio made it illegal
for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1852 Aug 20, The steamer
"Atlantic" collided on Lake Erie with the fishing boat Ogdensburg, and
sank. An estimated 150-250 people were drowned.
(MC, 8/20/02)(Internet)
1852 Dec 30, Future U.S. president
Rutherford B. Hayes married Lucy Ware Webb in Cincinnati.
(AP, 12/30/02)
1853 Apr 1, Cincinnati, Ohio,
established a fire department made up of paid city employees.
(AP, 4/1/07)
1853 Isaac Knowles founded a
pottery firm in East Liverpool, Ohio. In 1870 the name was changed to
Knowles, Taylor and Knowles to reflect expanded ownership.
(SFC, 3/26/08, p.G3)
1854 Dr. George W. L. Bickley, a
Virginian who had moved to Ohio, organized the first "castle," or local
branch, of the Knights of the Golden Circle in Cincinnati and soon took
the order to the South, where it was enthusiastically received. Its
principal object was to provide a force to colonize the northern part
of Mexico and thus extend proslavery interests, and the Knights became
especially active in Texas. The Knights of the Golden Circle was a
secret society organized in the 1850s in the American Midwest that
promoted the extension of slavery. During the American Civil War the
society sympathized with the Confederacy, encouraged desertion in the
Union Army, resisted enlistment and interfered with the draft. At its
peak there were some 200,000 members. It changed its name to the Order
of American Knights in 1863 and in 1864 to the Sons of Liberty.
Northern authorities arrested many members in 1864 and sentenced to
death three of its leaders. The death sentences were later suspended,
the leaders ordered released in 1866 by the Supreme Court.
http://www.dev.infoplease.com/ce5/CE028675.html
(HNQ, 8/2/99)
1856 Feb 19, Tin-type camera
patented by Hamilton Smith in Gambier, Ohio.
(MC, 2/19/02)
1857 Apr 18, Clarence S. Darrow,
defense attorney at the Scopes monkey trial, was born near Kinsman,
Ohio.
(AP, 4/18/07)
1857 Sep 15, William Howard Taft,
26th president of the United States and as chief justice, was born in
Cincinnati, Ohio. He is most remembered for his "dollar diplomacy."
(AP, 9/15/97)(HN, 9/15/99)
1859 Gustave Stomps (1827-1890), a
German immigrant, founded a furniture company in Dayton, Ohio. The
Stomps Burkhardt Co. of Dayton operated from 1890 to 1928.
(SFC, 9/19/07, p.G6)
1860 Aug 13, Annie Oakley
(d.1926), sharp-shooter and entertainer, was born in Darke County,
Ohio, as Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee (Mosey). She became a markswoman and
toured with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show.
(WUD, 1994, p.992)(SFEC, 8/3/97, Z1 p.2)(HN, 8/14/98)
1860-1865 The 23d Ohio, a volunteer regiment during
the American Civil War, included two future presidents and an army
commander. The volunteer citizen army that fought the Civil War for the
North was one of the most remarkable military assemblages in history.
The 23d Ohio contained among its commanding and ranking officers more
names that would become famous than any other regiment in the Northern
armies.
(HNQ, 4/9/01)
1861 Apr 20, Thaddeus Lowe landed
in South Carolina only to be surrounded by a group of incredulous
Carolinians who believed he was a spy. Lowe managed to persuade the
crowd that his 500-mile trip from Cincinnati, Ohio, was merely an
innocent aerial journey to test his strange craft. He later tried to
convince the Union to use his skill as a balloonist.
(HNQ, 4/5/01)(ON, 2/05, p.7)
1862 Mar 24, Abolitionist Wendell
Phillips spoke to a crowd about emancipation in Cincinnati, Ohio and
was pelted by eggs.
(HN, 3/24/00)
1862 Sep 17, Sgt. William McKinley
and a single volunteer drove a wagon of hot coffee and warm food
through Confederate fire at Antietam to the men of the 23rd Ohio
regiment. Col. Rutherford B. Hayes promoted him to lieutenant for his
bravery and initiative.
(WSJ, 12/12/03, p.W9)
1862 Mary Jane Patterson
(1840-1894) received a degree from Oberlin College, Ohio, becoming the
1st black female college graduate in the US.
(SSFC, 2/15/04, p.C6)
1862-1906 Bitters bottles were manufactured in
Tiffin, Ohio and Omaha, Neb. to hold "American Life Bitters," an
alcoholic concoction of herbs and gin that was marketed as medicine.
(SFC, 6/3/98, Z1 p.6)
1863 Jul 26, In the Battle of
Salineville, Ohio, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrendered.
Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and his cavalrymen were
captured during their daring raid into Ohio. Conditions for Confederate
soldiers housed in the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus improved
after General Morgan sent a written complaint to the Buckeye State’s
governor, David Todd. The Confederates were placed in the dark, dank
stone prison, where they were subject to harsh punishment and forced to
live on bread and water. Todd visited the prison after receiving
Morgan’s letter, and soon afterward reforms were instituted to improve
living conditions. Morgan did not stay to savor the improvements,
though. In November 1863, he and six other Confederate officers escaped.
(HNQ, 9/20/01)(MC, 7/26/02)
1863 Dec 9, Major General John G.
Foster replaced Major General Ambrose E. Burnside as Commander of the
Department of Ohio.
(HN, 12/9/98)
1865 Nov 2, Warren Gamaliel
Harding, the 29th president of the United States (1921-29), was born
near Corsica, Ohio. Harding was owner and publisher of the Marion Star.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, zone 3 p.4)(AP, 11/2/97)(HNQ,
10/21/98)
1866 Feb 21, Lucy B. Hobbs became
the first woman to graduate from a dental school, the Ohio College of
Dental Surgery in Cincinnati.
(AP, 2/21/98)
1867 Jun 25, The 1st barbed wire
was patented by Lucien B. Smith of Ohio. [see Illinois, Oct 27, 1873]
(MC, 6/25/02)
1867 Denton True Young (Cy Young,
d.1955), baseball pitching star, was born near Gilmore, Ohio. Cy was
short for cyclone.
(AH, 10/01, p.20)
1868 May 31, The 1st Memorial Day
parade was held in Ironton, Ohio.
(MC, 5/31/02)
1868 May 30, Memorial Day began
when two women placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves.
Memorial Day, which began in 1868 as Decoration Day, was set aside to
remember those who have died in the service of their country.
Celebrated on May 30 for the first 100 years, Memorial Day was
officially changed to the last Monday in May in 1968.
(HN, 5/30/98)(HNPD, 5/31/99)
1868 The "Ohio Idea," promulgated
by Ohio congressman George Pendleton, called for payment of the
national debt with greenbacks. This position was adopted by the
Democrats at their 1868 convention. The "Ohio Idea" was in opposition
to the "hard money" proponents who called for payments in gold. The
1869 Public Credit Act officially repudiated the "Ohio Idea" with its
provision for the payment of government obligations in gold.
(HNQ, 5/14/99)
1869 Mar 15, Cincinnati Red
Stockings became the 1st pro baseball team.
(MC, 3/15/02)
1869 Dec 28, William Finley Semple
of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patented chewing gum.
(MC, 12/28/01)
1869 Sep 22, The Cincinnati Red
Stockings, the first professional baseball team, arrived in San
Francisco after a rollicking, barnstorming tour of the West.
(HN, 9/22/98)
1870 Jan 10, John D. Rockefeller
(1839-1937) and his brother William incorporated the Standard Oil
Company of Ohio. The original Standard Oil Company, founded by John D.
Rockefeller and three partners in 1870, was incorporated in the state
of Ohio.
(WSJ, 7/15/97, p.A16)(AP, 1/10/98)(HN, 1/10/99)(HNQ,
1/23/00)
1870 The pottery firm Knowles,
Taylor and Knowles began operations in East Liverpool, Ohio, and
continued to 1931. They were best known for their Lotus Ware
(1891-1898).
(SFC, 3/14/07, p.G2)
1870s Merman Bros., a producer of
tables in reproduction style, was founded in Ottoville, Ohio. It later
moved to Celina, Ohio, and closed in 1995.
(SFC, 7/27/05, p.G2)
1871 Aug 19, Orville Wright
(d.1948), aviation pioneer, was born in Dayton, Oh. His birthday is
celebrated as National Aviation Day.
(HN, 8/19/00)(WUD, 1994, p.1647)(MC, 8/19/02)
1872 Jun 27, Paul Laurence Dunbar,
African-American poet and writer, was born in Dayton, Ohio. His poems
include "Oak and Ivory" and "Majors and Minors."
(HN, 6/27/99)(SC, 6/27/02)
1872 The Ransom and Randolph Co.
was founded in Ohio for the manufacture of supplies to dentists,
doctors and barbers.
(SFC, 8/24/05, p.G6)
1874 Jan 29, John David
Rockefeller Jr (d.1960), philanthropist, was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
(MC, 1/29/02)
1874 Cleveland set up the first
ordinary electric street trolley.
(SFC, 7/19/97, p.E4)
1876 Apr 25, The Chicago White
Stockings (later Chicago Cubs) beat Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout) in
the 1st NL game. Albert G. Spalding (1850-1915), former pitcher for the
Boston Red Stocking, had joined the Chicago White Stockings after
helping form the new National League. His move effectively ended the
National Association, baseball’s first professional league. Spalding
managed the White Stockings from 1876-1877 and continued as a player to
1878.
(http://tinyurl.com/yb7u9ou)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Spalding)
1876 Aug 29, Charles F. Kettering,
inventor (automobile self-starter), was born in Ohio.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1876 Sep 13, Sherwood Anderson
(d.1941), author, poet and publisher (Winesburg), was born in
Winesburg, Ohio. "Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest
people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection,
the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest
hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough."
(AP, 9/28/00)(MC, 9/13/01)
1876 Dec 29, In the Ashtabula
train disaster a Pacific Express, carrying some 159 passengers and
crew, was traveling over a bridge near Ashtabula, Ohio. Only the first
engine of the train made it to the other side at 7:28 p.m. as the
bridge began to collapse. The rest of the train broke away and
plummeted to the bottom of the ravine below. Approximately 92 men,
women and children were killed. The bridge was owned by the Lake Shore
and Michigan railroad, and was the joint creation of Charles Collins,
Engineer, and Amasa Stone, Chief Architect and Designer. After
testifying before an investigative jury, Charles Collins quietly went
home and shot himself in the head. He was also buried in the Chestnut
Grove Cemetery, several feet from the mass grave. Amasa Stone
(1818-1883) committed suicide approximately 7 years later. Stone
was held partly responsible for the disaster by the same investigative
jury before which Collins had testified, and was publicly scorned for
many years.
(http://deadohio.com/AshTrain.htm)
1876 James Garfield, US president
assassinated in 1881, purchased his Lawnfield home in Mentor, Ohio. In
1936 the home was donated to the Western Reserve Historical Society.
(SFC, 2/11/04, p.F10)
1876 John Danner (b.1823) of
Canton, Ohio, invented and patented a revolving bookcase. His John
Danner Mfg. Co. soon expanded to produce drug cases, cabinets and store
stools.
(SFC, 12/21/05, p.G6)
1876 In Dayton, Ohio, the Royal
Remedy and Extract Co. was founded by Irvin Souders. The company was
incorporated in 1888 and introduced Sweet Wheat chewing gum in
1889.
(SFC, 3/12/08, p.G4)
1878 Nov 2, Edward Scripps
(1854-1926) and John Scripps Sweeney founded the Penny Press. Ellen
Scripps helped her younger half brother, Edward W. Scripps, begin his
Penny Press in Cleveland, Ohio. She gave financial support and
contributed articles and columns to the Penny Press while continuing
her work for the Detroit Evening News.
(http://tinyurl.com/3dc4tx)(http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=SEW)
1878 Bishop Wright gave his sons,
Orville and Wilbur, a toy helicopter.
(NPub, 2002, p.5)
1878 Philip Marqua of Cincinnati
invented the "swing stand horse," a toy horse that moves back and forth
on a stand as an alternative to the rocking horse.
(SFC,12/24/97, Z1 p.6)
1879 Feb 10, The 1st electric arc
light was used in a California Theater. The first electric arc lights
were installed in Cleveland in this year. Some women complained that
the white light blanched their complexions in a most ghastly manner.
(MC, 2/10/02)(SFC, 11/30/96, p.B5)
1879 James Ritty
(1836-1918) and his brother invented the 1st cash register. It was to
combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio, saloon. The first
model looked like a clock, but instead of the hands indicating hours
and minutes, they indicated dollars and cents. Behind the dial two
adding discs accumulated the total of the amounts recorded. Known as
"the incorruptible cashier," with no cash drawer, it would show anyone
within sight how much had been recorded. They received a patent Jan 30,
1883.
(www.inventors.about.com)(www.uspto.gov/go/kids/kidjan.htm)
1879 William Proctor and James
Gamble launched Ivory soap in Cincinnati. In 2004 Davis Dyer, Frederick
Dalzell and Rowena Olegario authored “Rising Tide: Lessons from 165
years of Brand Building at proctor & Gamble.”
(Econ, 7/24/04, p.75)
1880 Nov 4, The first cash
register was patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio. [see
James Ritty 1879]
(AP, 11/4/05)
1880 Andrew J. Cron joined R.B.
Kills to found Cron Kills Co., a furniture manufacturer, in Piqua, Ohio.
(SFC, 7/18/07, p.G2)
1880 B. Manischewitz founded an
operation in Cincinnati to make unleavened bread based on a
5,000-year-old recipe.
(SFC, 9/22/03, p.B4)
1880 Maria Longworth Nichols
founded the Rookwood Pottery firm in Cincinnati. The firm operated
until 1941. Decorators for the firm included Albert Valentien, Carl
Schmidt, Kataro Shirayamadani and Matthew Daly.
(SFC, 12/15/98, Z1 p.6)
1881 Adolph Ochs was invited by
Leo Wise, editor of "The American Israelite," for dinner in Cincinnati,
where Ochs met Leo's sister Iphigenia Miriam Wise (Effie). Her father,
Isaac Mayer Wise, was the force behind the formation of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations and the Hebrew Union College and is
generally considered to be the founder of Reform Judaism in America.
(SFEM, 1/16/00, p.10)
1882 The Globe Files Co. was
founded in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1898 it introduced a vertical filing
system.
(SFC, 8/9/06, p.G3)
1863 Mar 25, US Sec. of War Edward
Stanton awarded Corp. William Pittenger of the 2nd Ohio Regiment and 5
other Union soldiers the first US Medals of Honor. Pittenger had been a
member of Andrews Raiders who stole the locomotive “General” in Georgia
on April 12, 1862. Civilian spy James Andrews and 7 other were hanged
in 1862 following a Confederate court martial.
(ON, 8/08, p.12)
1883 Jul 11, In Cincinnati the
Reform Jewish Seminary held a dinner for its 1st class of rabbis. The
meal gained notoriety for abrogating every rule of kashrut, except the
prohibition against pork.
(WSJ, 7/6/01, p.W11)
1864 May 16, Platt Rogers Spencer
(b.1800), the originator of Spencerian penmanship, a popular system of
cursive handwriting, died in Geneva, Ohio.
(WSJ, 1/24/09,
p.W8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platt_Rogers_Spencer)
1884 Nov 20, Norman Thomas,
socialist and Pres. Candidate 1928-48, was born in Marion, Ohio, and
ran for president in six successive elections beginning in 1928.
(HNQ, 10/21/98)(MC, 11/20/01)
1884 Moses Fleetwood Walker, a
black man, played 42 games for the Toledo Blue Stockings of the
American Association.
(WSJ, 1/30/04, p.A1)
1884 In Dayton, Ohio, John H.
Patterson founded the National Cash Register Company (NCR), maker of
the first mechanical cash registers. In 1974 the company changed its
name to NCR Corp. From 1991 to 1996 it was part of AT&T.
(www.ncr.com/history/history.htm)(SFC, 5/21/08, p.G7)
1886 Dec 8, The American
Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded at a convention of union leaders
in Columbus, Ohio, by some 25 labor groups representing about 150,000
members. The first president of the American Federation of Labor was
Samuel Gompers, who had reorganized the Cigarmakers Union and
participated in the founding of the Federation of Organized Trades and
Labor Unions in 1881.
(AP, 12/8/97)(HNPD, 9/7/99)
1887 Sep 14, Karl Taylor Compton,
physicist and atomic bomb scientist, was born in Wooster, Ohio.
(www.britannica.com)
1899 Jul 21, Poet Hart Crane was
born in Garrettsville, Ohio.
(AP, 7/21/99)
1889 Sep 8, Robert A. Taft, U.S.
Senator from Ohio, was born. He unsuccessfully sought the presidential
nomination in 1952. He was the son of the 27th president of the U.S.
William Howard Taft. Robert was known as "Mr. Republican" because of
his steadfast espousal of traditional conservative values. Taft was a
candidate for the Republican presidential nomination three times and
served in the Senate from 1938 until his death in 1953. Taft
consistently opposed the New Deal program, led the Congressional
isolationist bloc and fought the Lend-Lease bill.
(HN, 9/8/98)(HNQ, 7/8/99)
1889 In Toledo the W.I. Libbey
& Son Co. made a pattern of milk glass that resembled ears of corn.
(SFC,11/19/97, Z1 p.7)
1890 Jul 20, Theda Bara, actress
(Love Goddesses), was born as Theodosia Goodman in Cincinnati.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1890 Aug 6, Cy Young gained the
first of his 511 major league victories as he pitched the Cleveland
Spiders to a win over the Chicago Colts. However, the score is a matter
of dispute, with some sources saying 6-1, and others saying 8-1.
(AP, 8/6/07)
1890 Kenton Hardware Manufacturing
Co. was founded in Kenton, Ohio, to make locks. Within a few year the
company began making toys.
(SFC, 5/28/08, p.G2)
1890 Roseville Pottery did
business in Roseville and Zanesville, Ohio, from 1890 to 1954.
(SFC, 9/20/06, p.G3)
1891 Jul 8, Warren G. Harding
(later US president) married Florence K. DeWolfe in Marion, Ohio.
(AP, 7/8/97)
1891-1903 The Model Flint Glass Co. of Findley, Ohio,
produced the pressed-glass "bread plate" pattern called the "Last
Supper."
(SFC, 6/10/98, Z1 p.3)
1892 May 1, Howard Barlow,
conductor (Voice of Firestone), was born in Plain City, Ohio.
(MC, 5/1/02)
1892 Jul 28, Joe E. Brown,
comedian (Buck Circus Hour), was born in Holgate, Ohio.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1892 Sep 10, Arthur Compton,
physicist, was born in Wooster, Ohio.
(HN, 9/10/00)
1892 In Marietta, Ohio, Collins R.
Stevens (d.1921) and Orin C. Klock began manufacturing reed organs
under the name Stevens & Klock. The company went out of business in
1924.
(SFC, 12/17/08, p.G6)
1893 Jan 17, The 19th president of
the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, died in Fremont, Ohio, at age
70.
(AP, 1/17/98)
1893 Nov 20, The struggling
Western League of Professional Baseball Clubs, meeting in Detroit,
Michigan, elected Byron Bancroft Johnson (29), a former ballplayer and
Cincinnati sportswriter, as president. He had been recommended by
Charles Comiskey, a potential investor in the league and manager of the
National League’s Cincinnati Reds.
(ON, 6/09, p.10)
1893 The Anti-Saloon League formed
in Ohio. It became national in 1895 when it merged with an organization
in Washington D.C.
(AH, 2/05, p.72)
1894 Oct 17, Ohio national guard
killed 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man.
(MC, 10/17/01)
1895 Feb 26, Michael Owens of
Toledo, OH., patented a glass-blowing machine.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1895 The Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra was formed.
(SFC, 1/26/00, p.B4)
1897 Marcus Hanna was elected to
the US Senate. Hanna, an Ohio industrialist, led the 1896 fund-raising
for Pres. McKinley and personally underwrote the cost of winning the
1st modern presidential campaign. In 1929 Thomas Beer authored a
biography of Hanna.
(WSJ, 3/24/04, p.B1)
1897 Sep 11, A strike by some
75,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia ended
after 10 weeks. Concessions included an eight-hour work day,
semi-monthly pay, and the abolition of company stores (which were
famous for over charging workers). The day before, about 20 miners were
killed when sheriff's deputies opened fire on them in Pennsylvania.
(AP, 9/11/97)(MC, 9/11/01)
1898 May 31, Norman Vincent Peale
(d1993), American religious leader, was born in Ohio. He later authored
"The Power of Positive Thinking."
(HN, 5/31/01)(MC, 5/31/02)
1898 In Ohio James M. Cox
(d.1957), a 28-year-old school teacher, borrowed $26,000 and bought the
Dayton Daily News. It grew to become the 1998 Cox Enterprises with 18
daily newspapers, 21 cable TV systems and 20 radio and TV stations.
(WSJ, 1/29/98, p.A19)
1899 May 30, Wilbur Wright
(1867-1912), Ohio bicycle mechanic, wrote the Smithsonian Institution
and affirmed his belief that human flight was possible.
(NPub, 2002,
p.5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Brothers)
1899 Coburn Haskell of Cleveland
with the help of a BF Goodrich scientist came up with a liquid-center
gutta-percha golf ball. [2nd source says 1898]
(SFC, 6/21/97, p.E4) (WSJ, 6/15/00, p.A1)
1900 Apr 26, Charles Richter
(1985), seismologist, was born in Hamilton, Ohio. He developed the
Richter Scale for measuring the amplitude of earthquakes.
(AP,
4/26/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Richter)
1900-1910 In the early 1900s A.C. Williams Co. of
Ravenna, Ohio, became the world’s largest producer of toys and still
banks. The company had started out manufacturing stoves and tools.
(SFC, 3/1/06, p.G7)
1901 Jan 28, Byron Bancroft
Johnson announced that the American League would play the 1901 baseball
season as a major league and would not renew its membership in the
National Agreement. The new league would include Baltimore and
Washington, DC, recently abandoned by the National League. The league
would also invade 4 cities where National League teams existed: Boston,
Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia. The 8 charter teams included: the
Baltimore Orioles, Boston Americans, Chicago White Stockings, Cleveland
Blues, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Athletics, and
Washington Senators.
(ON, 6/09,
p.11)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_League)
1901 Smith Phillips China Co. of
East Liverpool, Ohio, was founded by Josiah T. Smith and W.H. Phillips.
They manufactured semiporcelain dinnerware, toilet seats, hotel wares
and decorated dishes until 1931.
(SFC, 3/9/05, p.G4)
1901 The Wright Brothers
constructed new wings for a large glider using existing aerodynamics
tables. The flight was marginal so they tested the tables by analyzing
model wings in a wind tunnel. The tables proved to be wrong and they
painstakingly computer new ones.
(NPub, 2002, p.6)
1902 Dec 9, Margaret Hamilton,
character actress, was born in Cleveland, Oh. She became best known as
the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz (1939).
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3146)
1902 The Crooksville China Co. of
Crooksville, Ohio, began operations and continued to 1959. Their
products included the Stinthal China brand name.
(SFC, 8/20/08, p.G4)
1902 The Owen China Co. of
Minerva, Ohio, was founded by Edward J. Owen. It was forced to close
during the Depression in 1932.
(SFC, 1/21/09, p.G4)
1902 The Wright Brothers built a
glider based on their new aerodynamics tables. Efficiency was almost
doubled and they made over 1,000 flights at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty
Hawk, NC.
(NPub, 2002, p.6)
1903 Jan, The American League and
the National League representatives met in Cincinnati and produced the
rough outlines of a deal in which each would maintain independence, but
coordinate schedules.
(ON, 6/09, p.12)
1903 Mar 10, Harry Gammeter of
Cleveland patented a multigraph duplicating machine.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1903 Jul 21, Dr. Horatio Nelson
Jackson arrived in Cleveland with his mechanic Sewell Croker escorted
by a fleet of new Winton automobiles. They were enroute to NYC from San
Francisco in a $2,500 Winton touring car.
(ON, 9/04, p.10)
1903 Burton Westcott (1868-1926)
brought his family business, the Westcott Motor Car. Co., from Richmond
Ind., to Springfield, Ohio, where its cars were assembled by hand.
(WSJ, 8/16/07, p.D7)
1904 Sep 15, Wilbur Wright made
his 1st controlled half-circle while in flight with Flyer II. On Sep 20
he flew a full circle for the first time.
(http://tinyurl.com/pkwd37)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Flyer_II)
1904 Sep 19, Bergen Baldwin Evans
(d.1978), American educator and author who wrote the "Dictionary of
Contemporary American Usage," was born in Ohio. "Freedom of speech and
freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there
is no freedom of thought without doubt."
(AP, 8/11/98)(HN, 9/19/98)(MC, 9/19/01)
1904 Sun Manufacturing moved from
Greenfield, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio, and manufactured coffee mills
there until about 1920.
(SFC, 2/7/07, p.G7)
1904 Otto H.L. Wernicke joined his
Michigan furniture business with the Ohio Globe Files Co. to form the
Globe-Wernicke Co. Around 1905 Wernicke Furniture purchased the Fred
Macey Furniture Co. and began making stackable bookcases.
Globe-Wernicke sued Macey in 1906 for using its patents. After years of
litigation Globe lost.
(SFC, 8/9/06, p.G3)
1905 May 25, Joseph C. Harsch,
newscaster (Background), was born in Toledo, OH.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1905 Frank L. Fenton and his
brother founded Fenton Art Glass in Martins Ferry, Ohio.
(SFC, 7/20/05, p.G4)
1905 The Wright Brother’s Flyer
III became the world’s first practical airplane, but attracted little
attention.
(NPub, 2002, p.7)
1906 Feb 9, Poet Paul Laurence
Dunbar (33), son of former slaves, died of TB in his hometown of
Dayton, Ohio.
(AH, 2/06, p.15)
1906 Feb 17, Alice Lee Roosevelt,
President Theodore Roosevelt's irrepressible eldest daughter, married
Congressman Nicholas Longworth of Ohio in an elaborate White House
ceremony. Heedless of social convention, Alice's behavior routinely
shocked her family and friends. Once the president, when confronted
with another of Alice's escapades, remarked, "I can do one of two
things, I can run the country or control Alice. I cannot do both."
Nevertheless, the world public was captivated with the first daughter,
who seemed to embody the ideal Gay Nineties woman. In spite of its
promising beginning, Alice's 25-year marriage to Longworth was not a
happy one, but Alice reigned as the grande dame of Washington, D.C.
society for another 50 years.
(HNPD, 2/16/99)
1906 Mar 21, Ohio passed a law
that prohibited hazing by fraternities.
(HN, 3/21/98)
1906 Frank Lloyd Wright designed
the Westcott House in Springfield, Ohio. In 2000 the non-profit
Westcott House Foundation purchased the house for $300,000 and then
spent 5 years and $5.8 million in renovations.
(WSJ, 8/16/07, p.D7)
1907 Feb 28, Milton Caniff,
cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates), was born in Hillsboro, Ohio.
(MC, 2/28/02)
1907 Nov 16, Burgess Meredith,
actor, was born in Cleveland. He died Sep 10, 1997 at 89. He played the
Penguin on TV’s Batman and numerous films in a 60 year film career.
(HIR, 9/11/97, p.5B)(SFC, 9/11/97, p.A18)
1908 Mar 4, A fire at Lake View
School in Collinwood, Ohio, claimed the lives of 172 children and three
adults.
(AP, 3/4/08)
1908 Mar 7, Cincinnati Mayor Mark
Breith stood before city council and announced that, "women are not
physically fit to operate automobiles."
(MC, 3/7/02)
1908 William Henry Hoover, an
inventive janitor and founder of the Hoover Vacuum Co., produced the
Model O, the first commercially successful portable electric vacuum
cleaner. The Hoover Historical Center in North Canton, Ohio, was
devoted to carpet-cleaning history.
(SFEC, 1/10/99, p.T3)
1909 Jun 7, Cleveland Industrial
Exposition opened.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1910 The Nelson McCoy Sanitary
Stoneware Co. was founded in Roseville, Ohio. In 1933 the name was
changed to the Nelson McCoy Pottery Co. and it stayed in business until
1990.
(SFC, 8/10/05, p.G4)
1911 Nov 5, Roy Rogers, singing
cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show), was born. He was born as
Leonard Franklin Slye in Cincinnati where his father worked in a shoe
factory. He died in 1998 at age 86.
(SFC, 7/7/98, p.A1,2)(MC, 11/5/01)
1911 Goodyear began flying its
blimps. Frank Augustus Seiberling (1859-1954) was the founder of the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.B3)(SFC, 5/26/99, Z1 p.6)
1911 Quaker Oats bought the Great
Western Cereal Co., maker of Mothers Oats. Great Western of Akron,
Ohio, had owned the brand since 1901.
(SFC, 1/16/08, p.G4)
1912 Sherwood Anderson walked away
his life as an Ohio businessman, his wife and three kids. He later
headed off for Chicago to pursue a literary career.
(SFC, 8/25/01, p.D1)
1912 Standard Oil established
America’s first gas station in Cincinnati.
(F, 10/7/96, p.67)
1912 The Durable Toy & Novelty
Co. began making toy registering banks about this time. Its office was
in NYC and its factory in Cleveland, Ohio.
(SFC, 4/2/08, p.G2)
1913 Feb 25, Jim Backus, actor
(Mr. Magoo, Thurston Howell III-Gilligan's Island), was born in
Cleveland.
(MC, 2/25/02)
1913 Mar 15, Lewis Robert
Wasserman (d.2002) was born in Cleveland. In 1946 Dr. Jules Stein
(d.1981), founder of Music Corp. of America hired Lew Wasserman as
director of advertising and public relations. Wasserman went on to
expand the company as MCA Inc. into a major entertainment conglomerate.
(SFC, 6/4/02, p.A18)
1913 Mar 25, Great Dayton, Ohio,
flood. [see Mar 25]
(MC, 3/25/02)
1913 Mar 26, Dayton, Ohio, was
almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, and Muskingum River reached flood
stage simultaneously.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1913 May 5, Tyrone Power, actor
(Mark of Zorro, Alexander's Ragtime Band), was born in Cleveland.
(MC, 5/5/02)
1914 Jul 2, Frederick Fennell,
conductor (Time & the Winds), was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1914 Aug 5, One of the first, if
not the first, electric traffic light systems were installed in
Cleveland, Ohio.
(AP, 8/5/07)
1914 Sep 1, Martha, the last known
passenger pigeon, died at the Cincinnati Zoo.
(AH, 10/04, p.14)
1915 Aug 21, Jack Weston [Morris
Weinstein], actor (4 Seasons, Rad), was born in Cleveland.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1915 Dec 27, In Ohio, iron and
steel workers went on strike for an eight hour day and higher wages.
(HN, 12/27/98)
1915 Orville Wright (1871-1948)
sold his interest in the Wright Company and retired.
(NPub, 2002, p.9)
1916 Jul 25, An explosion at the
Cleveland Waterworks tunnel project trapped 12 men and 18 would-be
rescuers. 8 men were saved and 10 bodies were recovered by a team led
by black inventor Garrett A. Morgan (d.1963) dressed in his new Safety
Hood.
(ON, 3/02, p.12)
1917 Jun 7, Dean Martin, singer,
comedian (partner for Jerry Lewis), was born in Steubenville, Ohio. He
died in Beverly Hills, Ca. on Dec. 25, 1995. [see Jun 17]
(WSJ, 12/26/95, p. A-1)(SC, 6/7/02)
1917 Jun 17, Dean Martin, singer
and comedian, was born as Dino Crocetti in Steubenville, Ohio. He
worked with Jerry Lewis. His films included "My Friend Irma,"
"Hollywood or Bust," "Airport," "Bells are Ringing" and "Rio Bravo."
[see Jun 7]
(MC, 6/17/02)
1918 Oct 11, Archibald M. Willard
(b.1836), American artist, died in Ohio. His paintings included “Spirit
of ’76” (1876).
(www.nationalsojourners.org/heroes.html)
1918 May 1, Jack Paar (d.2004),
later late-night TV talk show host, was born in Canton, Ohio.
(www.museum.tv/archives/etv/P/htmlP/paarjack/paarjack.htm)
1919 Jul 4, Jack Dempsey, the
"Manassa Mauler", defeated Jess Willard by a knockout in Toledo, Ohio,
after three rounds to become the World's Heavyweight Boxing Champion.
(IB, Internet, 12/7/98)
1919 Oct 1, In baseball’s World
Series the Chicago White Sox faced the Cincinnati Reds in a best of 9
games. The White Sox intentionally threw the series to satisfy gamblers
in what became known as the Black Sox Scandal. 8 players were banned
from baseball for life. In 1963 Eliot Asinof described the events in
his book “Eight men Out.” The 1988 baseball film "Eight Men Out" was
directed by John Sayles.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, BR p.8)(SFC, 7/14/96, DB p.33)(AH,
10/04, p.14)
1919 Oct 9, The Cincinnati Reds
won the World Series, defeating the Chicago White Sox 10-5 at Comiskey
Park. The victory turned hollow amid charges eight of the White Sox had
thrown the Series in what became known as the "Black Sox" scandal.
(AP, 10/9/08)
1919 Sherwood Anderson published
his linked short story collection "Winesburg, Ohio.
(SFEC, 8/15/99, BR p.1)
1919 Edgar Allen 1862-1937), Ohio
businessman, founded the National Society for Crippled Children. In
1934 the organization launched its first Easter Seal fundraising
campaign. In 1952 it incorporated the lily flower as its symbol. In
1967 the organization adopted Easter Seals as ifs formal name.
(www.extramile.us/honorees/allen.cfm)
1920 Jun 28, The Democrats opened
their convention, the first in the West, in San Francisco. James Cox of
Ohio was elected presidential candidate on the 44th ballot on July 6.
(WSJ, 1/29/98, p.A19)(SFEC, 4/25/99, Z1 p.4)(AH,
10/04, p.56)
1920 Jul 6, The Democrats ended
their convention in San Francisco with the selection James Cox of Ohio
and running mate Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Cox and FDR were committed
internationalists and lost the elections due to the isolationism of the
times.
(SFEC, 4/25/99, Z1 p.4)(AH, 10/04, p.56)
1920 Sep 17, The American
Professional Football Association -- a precursor of the NFL -- was
formed in Canton, Ohio. 12 teams paid $100 each to join American Prof
Football Assn. Jim Thorpe was the first president. The name was changed
to the National Football League (NFL) in 1922. The NFL merged with the
AFL in 1970.
(AP, 9/17/97)(SFC, 7/11/98, p.B3)(HNQ, 11/19/00)(MC,
9/17/01)
1920 Aug 20, A preliminary meeting
was held in Akron, Ohio, to form the American Pro Football League.
(MC, 8/20/02)
1920 Nov 2, Warren G. Harding was
elected 29th president. He defeated James Cox, governor of Ohio, and
his VP running mate Franklin Delano Roosevelt (38).
(SFC, 10/13/99, p.E7)(AH, 10/04, p.50)
1920 Henry Burt created the "Good
Humor Bar," a chocolate covered ice cream bar on a stick, in
Youngstown, Ohio. Good Humor trucks cruised America's streets until
1976 and the company merged with Breyer's Ice Cream in 1993.
(SFEC,10/19/97, Z1 p.2)(WSJ, 7/16/99, p.W12)
1921 Jul 18, John Glenn, Jr.,
first man to orbit the Earth, was born in Cambridge, OH.
(HN, 7/18/98)(MC, 7/18/02)
1921 Aug 3, The 1st aerial crop
dusting was in Troy, Ohio, to kill caterpillars.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1922 The Mills Brothers began
performing in Piqua, Ohio. Donald Mills (d.1999), the youngest brother
(7), Harry, Herbert and John (d.1936) later made their first hit with
"Tiger Rag." Other hits included "Glow Worm," "Yellow Bird" and "Paper
Doll."
(SFC, 11/16/99, p.E6)
1923 Feb 2, Ethyl gasoline was 1st
marketed in Dayton, Ohio.
(MC, 2/2/02)
1923 Aug 2, The 29th president of
the United States, Warren G. Harding (57), died in San Francisco at the
Palace Hotel of a "stroke of apoplexy." Not considered to have been a
particularly intelligent man, Harding owed his rise to political power
to the driving ambition of his wife, Florence Kling Harding. As
president, the Ohio native was troubled by scandals caused by his
weakness for pretty women and a tendency to place unscrupulous
friends--called "The Ohio Gang"--in positions of power. Graft,
corruption and other scandals that led to the suicides of two high
Federal officials had begun to taint the Harding Administration when
the president suddenly died of a heart attack, just before the Teapot
Dome Scandal broke, the largest scandal of his administration. In 1998
Carl Sferrazza Anthony published "Florence Harding: The First Lady, The
Jazz Age and the Death of America’s Most Scandalous President."
(TMC, 1994, p.1923)(AP, 8/2/97)(SFEC, 3/1/98,
p.W27)(SFC, 8/1/98, p.A15,19)(HN, 8/2/98)
1923 Nov 9, Dorothy Dandridge,
actress, singer and dancer (Porgy and Bess), was born in Cleveland, Oh.
(MC, 11/9/01)
1923-1939 The Fraunfelter China Co. operated in
Zanesville, Ohio, during most of this period. Charles Fraunfelter
opened the business when he purchased Ohio Pottery, where he had worked
since 1915.
(SFC, 12/21/05, p.G6)
1924 Jan 29, An ice cream cone
rolling machine was patented by Carl Taylor in Cleveland.
(MC, 1/29/02)
1924 Apr 3, Doris Von Kappelhoff
[Doris Day], American singer and actress, was born in Cincinnati, Oh.
(HN, 4/3/01)(MC, 4/3/02)
1924 Jun 28, A tornado struck
Sandusky & Lorain, Ohio, killing 93.
(MC, 6/28/02)
1924 An Ohio state spider count
recorded 306 species.
(USAT, 5/18/04, p.17A)
1925 Jan 26, Paul Newman, actor
(Hud, Hombre, Hustler), was born in Cleveland.
(MC, 1/26/02)
1925 Feb 17, Hal Holbrook, actor
(All the President's Men, Mark Twain), was born in Cleveland.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1925 Sep 3, The dirigible
"Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die. The 682-foot
Shenandoah, a dirigible built by the U.S. Navy in 1923, broke apart in
mid-air, killing 14 persons aboard.
(HNQ, 1/2/00)(MC, 9/3/01)
1925 Burton Westcott (1868-1926)
was forced to close his Westcott Motor Car. Co. in Springfield, Ohio.
(WSJ, 8/16/07, p.D7)
1926 Nov
3, Annie Oakley (b.1860), US sharp shooting star, died at Greenville,
Ohio. Chief Sitting Bull nicknamed her “Little Miss Sure Shot” when she
was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
(www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/oakl-ann.htm)
1926 Coxon Pottery of Wooster,
Ohio, began operations about this time and continued to 1930.
(SFC, 10/4/06, p.G2)
1927 Jun 21, Carl Stokes, the
first black mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, was born.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1928 Mar 25, James A. Lovell Jr,
USN, astronaut (Gemini 7, 12, Apollo 8, 13), was born in Cleveland, Oh.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1929 May 15, Fire in X-ray film
stock killed 125 at Crile Clinic, Cleveland.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1929 Aug 11, Babe Ruth hit his
500th major league home run against the Cleveland Indians.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1930 Apr 21, A fire at Ohio State
Penitentiary killed 322.
(MC, 4/21/02)
1930 Apr 25, Dotty Mack, actress
(Paul Dixon Show), was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
(SS, 4/25/02)
1930 Jun 2, Sarah Dickson became
the 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US in Cincinnati.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1930 Jul 4, George Steinbrenner,
(George Michael Steinbrenner, III) businessman and baseball executive,
was born in Rocky River, Ohio. He became the principal owner of the New
York Yankees baseball team (1973-90); ordered by the Commissioner of
Baseball to give up active management of the Yankee franchise for
alleged association with gamblers; he is now back in control; known for
firing one Yankee manager after another.
(IB, Internet, 12/7/98)
1930 Aug 5, Neil Armstrong, the
first man to walk on the moon, was born in Ohio.
(HN, 8/5/98)
1931 May 7, Teresa Brewer
(d.2007), singer, was born in Toledo, Ohio. She had a big hit with
“Music, Music, Music” in 1950.
(SFC, 10/19/07, p.A11)
1931 Jul 4, 1st fireworks were
held at Cleveland Stadium.
(Maggio, 98)
1931 Jul 4, 1st trailside museum
opened in Cleveland Metroparks.
(Maggio, 98)
1931 Severance Hall was completed
in Cleveland and became the home of the Cleveland Orchestra. A $36
million expansion and renovation was unveiled Jan 8, 2000.
(WSJ, 12/28/99, p.A16)
1931-1947 Eugene Goosens served as the music director
of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
(SFC, 1/26/00, p.B4)
1932 Kenton Hardware Manufacturing
Co., founded in Ohio in 1890 as a lock maker, began making toy concrete
mixers under the Jaeger brand name. The company closed in 1952.
(SFC, 5/28/08, p.G2)
1932 Barzilla L. Marble (b.1851),
Ohio chair maker, died. His B.L. Marble Chair Co. made chairs for homes
from 1894 to 1910, when the company switched to making office
furniture. In 1965 Marble Chair merged with the Dictaphone Corp.
(www.bedfordohiohistory.org/build/marble.php)
1933 Oct 12, Bank robber John
Dillinger escaped from a jail in Allen County, Ohio, with the help of
his gang, who killed the sheriff, Jess Sarber.
(AP, 10/12/07)
1934 Oct 17, "Handsome" Harry
Pierpont, bank robber, was executed in the electric chair in Columbus,
Ohio, for the murder of Sheriff Jesse Sarber.
(Internet)
1934 Oct 22, Bank robber Charles
"Pretty Boy" Floyd was shot to death by federal agents at a farm in
East Liverpool, Ohio.
(AP, 10/22/97)
1934 Nov 12, Charles Manson, [No
Name Maddox], mass murderer, was born in Cincinnati, Oh.
(MC, 11/12/01)
1934 Paul King hit upon the idea
of the Easter Seal as the new emblem of the Ohio Society for Crippled
Children. In 1999 Easter Seals had an annual revenue of $484 million.
(WSJ, 4/5/99, p.A22)
1934 Universal Potteries was
formed in Cambridge, Ohio. They produced high-quality, semi-porcelain
dinnerware.
(SFC, 8/3/05, p.G9)
1935 Feb 13, 1st US surgical
operation for relief of angina pectoris took place in Cleveland.
(MC, 2/13/02)
1935 May 24, The first
major-league baseball game played at night took place at Cincinnati's
Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1.
(WSJ, 7/8/96, p.A8)(AP, 5/24/97)
1935 Jun 10, Alcoholics Anonymous
was founded in Akron, Ohio, by William G. Wilson (Bill Wilson), a
stockbroker, and Dr. Robert Smith (Bob Smith), a heart surgeon.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1935 Sep 10, Mary Oliver, Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet, was born in maple Heights, Ohio.
(HN, 9/10/00)
1935 Dec 21, Phil Donahue, talk
show host, was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
(MC, 12/21/01)
1935-1942 Eliot Ness, former FBI agent, served as the
safety director of Cleveland, Ohio.
(SFC, 9/11/97, p.A3)
1936 Marion Sumner (d.1997 at 77),
mountain fiddler, made his radio debut at station WCPO in Cincinnati
playing with the Haley Brothers.
(SFC, 8/21/97, p.C4)
1937 Harlan H. Hatcher assumed the
directorship of the Ohio branch of the Federal Writer’s Project.
(MT, Sum. ‘98, p.6)
1938 Oct, Oberlin College in
Oberlin, Ohio, admitted four female students and became the first
institution of higher learning to admit women to its college programs
on an equal basis with men. Prior to 1838, boys and girls had studied
together in its primary and secondary programs, while older girls
studied at Oberlin‘s female seminary.
(HNQ, 6/3/00)
1938 Nov 19, Ted Turner,
broadcasting mogul, owner of the Atlanta Braves, America's Cup winner,
was born in Cincinnati.
(www.infoplease.com)
1940 Jan 21, Jack Nicklaus, golfer
(Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76), was born in Columbus, Ohio.
(MC, 1/21/02)
1940 Oct, The 634-page "Ohio
Guide" was published by Oxford Univ. Press. It was a product of the
Ohio branch of the Federal Writer’s Project.
(MT, Sum. ‘98, p.6)
1940 Martin Sheen, actor, was born
as Ramon Estevez in Dayton, Ohio.
(SSFC, 12/2/01, Par p.4)
1941 Jul 17, The longest hitting
streak in baseball history ended when the Cleveland Indians pitchers
held New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, the Yankee Clipper, hitless for the
first time in 57 games.
(HN, 7/17/98)(SFC, 3/9/99, p.A10)(CHA, 1/2001)
1942 May 14, Aaron Copland's
"Lincoln Portrait" was first performed by the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Andre Kostelanetz, who had commissioned the
work.
(AP, 5/14/98)
1942 Jun, The US authorized an
additional 200 blimps, most of which were built by Goodyear Co. of
Akron, Ohio. When the war began the Navy had 10 blimps.
(Ind, 1/27/00, 5A)
1942 Gus Girves (d.1999 at 82)
opened his first Brown Derby Restaurant in Akron.
(SFC, 8/24/99, p.A22)
1943 James A. Rhodes (33) was
elected mayor of Columbus.
(SFC, 3/5/01, p.A24)
1944 Oct 20, Liquid-gas tanks in
Cleveland exploded. 135 died and 3,600 were left homeless.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1945 Jean Peters (d.2000 at 73)
won the Miss Ohio pageant. She later became a film actress and wife of
Howard Hughes (1957-1971).
(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A24)
1946 Jun 21, Bill Veeck bought the
Cleveland Indians for $2.2 million.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1946 Sep 21, The Cleveland Indians
played their final game in League Park, ending a 55-year stay.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1946 Oct 8, Dennis Kucinich, US
Congressmen for Ohio, was born in Cleveland. He stood as a presidential
candidate in 2004 and in 2008.
(SSFC, 2/29/04, p.D2)(WSJ, 1/25/08, p.A1)
1946 Russian immigrant Dietrich
Gustav Rempel opened Rempel Manufacturing on Morgan Avenue in Akron,
Ohio. He produced a line of latex squeak toys under the Sunnyslope
name. Artist Fred G. Reiner designed his toys.
(SFC, 12/21/05, p.G6)(SFC, 4/12/06, p.G4)
1946 In Ohio William Powell, a
black man, began hand building his Clearview Golf Club. The club opened
for 9-hole play in 1948. By 1978 he had expanded to 18 holes. In 2001
it was added to the national register of historic places.
(WSJ, 10/25/08,
p.W6)(www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-75087113.html)
1947 Jul 5, Larry Doby
signed a contract with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first black
player in the American League.
(AP, 7/5/97)
1947 Jul, Senator John Bricker, a
republican from Ohio, was shot at twice as he entered the Senate
subway. William L. Kaiser, a former Capital police officer, missed 2
times. He had lost money when an Ohio building and loan firm was
liquidated.
(SFC, 7/25/98, p.A6)
1947 Sep 15, The 1st 4 engine, jet
propelled fighter plane was tested at Columbus, Ohio.
(MC, 9/15/01)
1947 Dec 18, Steven Spielberg,
director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws), was born in Cincinnati.
(MC, 12/18/01)
1947 John C. Lincoln, a Cleveland
industrialist, endowed the Lincoln Foundation to teach and expound on
the ideas of Henry George, a 19th century economist who argued for a
single tax based on property values.
(WSJ, 5/28/99, p.B4)
1947 Joseph Lowenbach Steiner
(d.2002 at 95) and his 2 brothers founded Kenner Products Co. The firm
launched the Bubble Rocket in 1949, the Easy-Bake Oven in 1963, and the
Spirograph in 1966. General Mills acquired the company in 1967.
(SFC, 5/16/02, p.A20)
1948 Jul 9, Satchel Paige (42)
debuted in majors pitching 2 scoreless inning for Cleveland.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1948 The Cleveland Indians won the
World Series.
(SFC, 10/28/04, p.A7)
1948 Aaron and Florence Zacks
(1911-2007) formed R.G. Barry Corp. in Pickerington, Ohio, to
manufacture foam rubber shoulder pads for women’s clothing. They soon
expanded to produce foam rubber slippers.
(WSJ, 2/17/07, p.A4)
1949 Jul 10, 1st practical
rectangular TV tube was announced in Toledo, Oh.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1949 Sep 23, Bill Veeck (d.1986),
Baseball owner of the Cleveland Indians, held funeral services to bury
1948 pheasants.
(MC, 9/23/01)(Internet)
1951 Alan Freed began playing
black "rhythm and blues" music on Cleveland radio.
(SFC, 12/29/99, p.E3)
1951 Lois Wyse (1926-2007) and her
husband Marc Wyse founded Wyse Advertising in Cleveland. Lois Wyse
later wrote the jingle for jam maker Smucker's: “With a name like
Smucker’s, it has to be good.” Her 1967 “Love Poems for the Very
Married” sold over 200,000 copies. She later authored novels and books
of advice for working women such as “Mrs. Success” (1971).
(WSJ, 1/7/07, p.A4)
1952 Mar 21, The Moondog
Coronation Ball was held at the Cleveland Arena. It was promoted by
Alan Freed and was later cited as the 1st rock concert. The only band
to perform was one led by Paul Williams, before fire marshals
closed the show.
(SFC, 10/7/02, p.A19)
1952 Eisenhower defeated Robert
Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio, for the GOP presidential nomination.
(WSJ, 11/10/95, p.A-14)(HN, 9/8/98)
1953 Jan 3, Frances Bolton and her
son, Oliver from Ohio, became the first mother-son combination to serve
at the same time in the United States Congress.
(440 Int'l. 1/3/99)
1953 Jul 31, Sen. Robert A. Taft
of Ohio (63), known as "Mr. Republican," died in New York. His
successor was named by a Democratic governor.
(AP, 7/31/97)(WSJ, 5/25/01, p.A14)
1953 Congress formally ratified
Ohio statehood. Congress had initially voted to accept Ohio's borders
and constitution on Feb 19, 1803.
(AP, 2/19/98)
1954 Jul 4, Marilyn Sheppard (31
and pregnant) was killed at her home near Cleveland and her husband,
Dr. Sam Sheppard (d.1970), was later accused, tried and jailed for the
murder. Sam was released from jail in 1964. His story inspired the TV
series "The Fugitive" and a film in 1993. DNA evidence in 1997
indicated a third person was involved. Cleveland’s chief prosecutor
ruled in 1998 that the DNA samples were too old.
(SFC, 2/5/97, p.A6)(SFC, 3/5/98, p.A3)(SFC, 3/6/98,
p.A3)
1956 Dec 22, The 1st gorilla was
born in captivity at Columbus, Ohio.
(MC, 12/22/01)
1956-1982 Evan Whallon (d.1998 at 74) led the
Columbus Symphony Orchestra.
(SFC, 6/16/98, p.A22)
1957 Jul 15, James M. Cox
(b.1870), 3-time Ohio governor and founder of Cox Enterprises, died.
Cox was defeated in the 1920 Presidential Election by fellow Ohioan
Senator Warren G. Harding of Marion, Ohio. He left his family a
business that included broadcast properties and a string of newspapers.
(WSJ, 6/2/07,
p.A5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Cox)
1957 Nov 2, The 1st titanium mill
opened in Toronto, Ohio.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1957 In Toledo the Craig Memorial
Bridge, a drawbridge over the Maumee River, became a major link for
trucks between Ohio and Michigan.
(USAT, 10/9/98, p.20A)
1958 Rex Humbard (1919-2007),
televangelist, built the 5,400 seat, marble-and-glass Cathedral of
Tomorrow in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. It was specially built to handle
televised services.
(SSFC, 9/23/07, p.B5)
1959 Ohio adopted the motto "With
God, all things are possible." The motto was declared unconstitutional
in 2000.
(SFC, 4/26/00, p.B8)
1960-1972 Some 90 cancer patients at the Univ. of
Cincinnati Gen’l. Hospital were administered doses of radiation. The
project was funded by the Defense Dept. for data on how radiation might
affect troops. A federal judge approved a $4.3 million settlement in
1997 to the relatives of the patients along with a government apology.
(SFC,10/30/97, p.A3)
1961 The 1997 film "Telling Lies
in America," written by Eszterhas, was a reminiscence of 1961 Cleveland.
(SFC, 9/10/97, p.E1)(SFC, 9/10/97, p.E3)
1962 Mar 23, William DeWitt bought
the Cincinnati Reds for $4,625,000.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1962 The Studio Glass movement was
born in a garage on the grounds of the Libbey Glass Museum in Toledo.
(WSJ, 10/19/01, p.W15)
1963 Jan 29, The first members of
football's Hall of Fame were named in Canton, Ohio.
(AP, 1/29/98)(www.profootballhof.com/hof/years.jsp)
1963 Jul 27, Garrett A. Morgan
(86), inventor and founder of the Cleveland Call, died.
(ON, 3/02, p.12)
1963 Sep 7, The National
Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
(AP, 9/7/97)
1963 Nov 23, Sixty-three elderly
people, most of them sleeping, were killed by a fire destroying the
one-story Golden Age Nursing Home near Fitchville, Ohio.
(AP, 11/23/02)
1965 In Canal Winchester, Ohio,
the Barbering Hall of Fame was established.
(WSJ, 7/30/99, p.A1)
1965 Dawn Powell (b.1896),
Ohio-born American comic novelist, died. Her work anatomized and
skewered New York and included her autobiographical novel "My Home Is
Far Away." In 1998 Tim page authored: "Dawn Powell: A Biography."
(WSJ, 10/19/98, p.A24)
1966 Jul 19, Gov. James Rhodes
declared a state of emergency in Cleveland due to a race riot.
(MC, 7/19/02)
1967 Nov 7, Carl Stokes
(1927-1996) was elected the first black mayor of a major city --
Cleveland, Ohio. He served two terms as mayor from 1967 to 1971 and was
a leading advocate for increased federal aid to American cities. After
serving as mayor, Stokes became a television commentator and later a
judge in Cleveland.
(AP, 11/7/97)(HNQ, 1/9/03)
1967 Dec 15, In Point Pleasant,
West Virginia, it took less than 30 seconds for the Silver Bridge to
tumble into the Ohio River, killing 46 people and leaving towns on
either side stunned and bereft. The bridge had linked Point Pleasant
and Kanauga, Ohio, since 1928.
(AP, 12/15/07)
1967-1971 Robert W. Morse Sr. (d.2001 at 79) served
as president of Case Western Reserve Univ.
(SFC, 1/23/01, p.A19)
1969 May 25, Anne Heche, actress,
was born in Aurora, OH. Her films included “Donnie Brasco” (1997)
and “Volcano” (1997).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Heche)
1969 Jun 22, The highly polluted
Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught on fire.
(Hem., Oct. '95, p.83)(MC, 6/22/02)
1969 Nov 15, Wendy's Hamburgers,
begun by Dave Thomas, opened in Ohio. In 2008 the chain was sold to
Triarc Cos., owner of the Arby’s roast beef sandwich restaurant chain.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy's)(SFC, 4/25/08,
p.D3)
1970 May 1, Students at Kent State
University rioted in downtown Kent, Ohio, in protest of the American
invasion of Cambodia.
(HN, 5/1/98)
1970 May 2, Student anti-war
protesters at Ohio's Kent State University burned down the campus ROTC
building. Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes ordered in the National Guard
to take control of the campus.
(HN, 5/2/98)(HNPD, 5/4/99)
1970 May 3, James A. Rhodes, the
governor of Ohio, in a press conference in Kent, called anti-war
protesters the "the worst type of people we harbor in America, worse
than the brownshirts and the communist element." Rhodes had ordered the
National Guard into Kent to quell anti-war demonstrations that began
after President Nixon announced the American incursion into Cambodia on
April 30.
(HNQ, 5/4/99)
1970 May 4, At
Kent State Univ. on Monday, a peaceful noontime rally was ordered to
disburse by guardsmen. At 12:20 p.m., a small group of Guardsmen
suddenly wheeled and fired into a group of protesters, killing four and
wounding 9-11 others. One wounded student was crippled for life with
damage to his spinal column. In the days that followed, hundreds of
colleges were shut down by student strikes and more than 100,000
demonstrators marched on Washington, D.C. Twenty-five years after the
event the National Guard insisted that it was provoked into
attacking the students contrary to eye-witnesses, photographs, and
later investigations. Renowned American sculptor George Segal's bronze
Abraham and Isaac was commissioned to commemorate the killing of four
Vietnam War protesters at Ohio's Kent State University. The finished
bronze is now part of Princeton University's modern sculpture garden.
(NPR interview with the crippled survivor
5/4/95)(HFA, '96, p.30)(AP, 5/4/97)(HN, 5/4/98)(HNQ, 8/24/98) (HNPD,
5/4/99)
1970 May 21, The National Guard
was mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State University. [see May
4]
(HN, 5/21/98)
1970 Jul 30, George Szell
(b.1897)), Hungarian-US conductor, died in Cleveland, Ohio. He had
served as the music director of the Cleveland Orchestra since 1946.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Szell)
1970 Sep 26, The President’s
Commission on Campus Unrest, also referred to as the Scranton
Commission, investigated the Kent killings and found "The
indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the deaths
that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted, and inexcusable." The
commission, directed by former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton,
was appointed by President Richard Nixon shortly after the Kent State
shootings and relied heavily on a massive FBI investigation. The
Scranton report also found student conduct prior to the shootings
partly responsible.
(HNQ, 5/4/98)
1970-1975 Dennis Kucinich served as Mayor of
Cleveland.
(SFC, 1/10/04, p.A2)
1971 Jun 30, The 26th Amendment to
the Constitution was ratified as Ohio became the 38th state to approve
it. The amendment lowered the minimum voting age to 18.
(AP, 6/30/97)
1971 James Michener (1907-1997),
American writer, authored "Kent State: What Happened and Why" as well
as his novel "The Drifters."
(SFC,10/17/97,
p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Michener)
1972 Jun
3, Sally J. Priesand (25) was ordained the 1st female US rabbi by
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Upon ordination Rabbi Pries accepted a position at Stephen Wise Free
Synagogue in NYC where she served for seven years, first as Assistant
Rabbi and then as Associate Rabbi. From 1979-1981, she was Rabbi of
Temple Beth El in Elizabeth, New Jersey and also served as Chaplain at
Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. Since 1981, she has served as Rabbi of
Monmouth Reform Temple in New Jersey.
(www.monmouth.com/~mrt/rabbi/bio.html)
1972 Jack Scott (d.2000 at 57) was
hired as the athletic director at Oberlin College. He was the author of
"The Athletic Revolution," which was initially called "Athletics for
Athletes." In 1974 he assisted William and Emily Harris of the SLA from
California to a hideout farm in Pennsylvania.
(SFC, 2/8/00, p.A23)
1972 Owens Corning, Ohio-based
maker of insulation and other building products, stopped selling
asbestos products. In 1998 it offered $1.2 billion to settle its
asbestos related lawsuits, which numbered about 176,000 cases.
(SFC, 12/15/98, p.A3)(http://tinyurl.com/6glsle)
1972-1982 Loren Maazel served as the music director
of the Cleveland Symphony.
(WSJ, 9/26/00, p.A24)
1973 Jun 1, Harvey Jr. Firestone
(b.1898), American chairman of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., died in
Akron, Ohio.
.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_S._Firestone,_Jr.)
1974 Mar 29, In Ohio 8 National
Guardsmen were indicted on charges stemming from the shooting deaths of
4 students at Kent State University. On Nov 8 the charges were
dismissed.
(AP, 3/29/07)
1974 Apr 3, A series of 148 deadly
tornadoes struck wide parts of the South and Midwest before jumping
across the border into Canada; some 330 people were killed in 13 states
(Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi,
North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West
Virginia. Total property damage was estimated at $600 million. In 2007
Mark Levine authored “F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent
Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century.”
(AP, 4/3/99)(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(SSFC, 9/4/05,
p.A7)(WSJ, 6/16/07, p.P10)
1974 Jun 4, Ten Cent Beer Night
was an ill-fated promotion held by the American League's Cleveland
Indians during a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Municipal
Stadium.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Cent_Beer_Night)
1974 Jun 26, At the Marsh
Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, Sharon Buchanon became the 1st cashier to
scan a Universal Product Code (UPC) code. The 59 black and white bar
code was used on a 67 cent 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing
gum. The scanner was a Spectra-Physics Model A. Norman Joseph Woodland
and Bernard Silver (d.1962) had patented the 1st bar code scanner in
1952. In 1977 an int’l. version was created.
(SFC, 7/5/04, p.E3)(SSFC, 11/6/05, p.B5)(SFC,
6/26/09, p.C3)
1974 Oct 3, Frank Robinson was
named major-league baseball's first black manager as he was placed in
charge of the Cleveland Indians.
(AP, 10/3/97)
1974 Nov 8, Charges were dropped
against eight Ohio National Guardsmen for their role in the deaths of
four anti-war protestors at Kent State University. On March 29 a
federal grand jury had indicted 8 National Guardsmen for the May 4,
1970 Kent State shootings.
(SFC, 4/11/98,
p.A15)(http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/4may70/legalchronology.html)
1974 The US National History Day
project began as a yearlong program for junior and senior high school
students. NHD started as a small contest in Cleveland. Members of the
history department at Case Western Reserve University developed the
initial idea for a history contest to make teaching and learning
history a fun and exciting experience.
(SSFC, 12/17/00,
p.17)(www.nationalhistoryday.org/NHDHistory.htm)
1975 Frank Robinson joined the
Cleveland Indians as the 1st African American manager in major league
baseball.
(SFC, 4/11/03, p.E15)
1976 May 25, US Representative
Wayne L. Hays (Democrat, Ohio) admitted to a "personal relationship"
with Elizabeth Ray, a committee staff member who claimed she’d received
her job in order to be Hays’ mistress.
(AP, 5/25/00)
1976 Jun 19, Bette Midler's
concert at the Cleveland Music Hall became HBO's premiere "Standing
Room Only" presentation.
(www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4921414-1.html)
1976 Sep 1, U.S. Rep. Wayne L.
Hays, D-Ohio, resigned in the wake of a scandal in which he admitted
having an affair with secretary Elizabeth Ray.
(AP, 9/1/97)
1977 Dec 14, Sheriff Richard
Hongisto left SF to become police chief in Cleveland, Ohio.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.E8)
1977-1987 QUBE, an experiment in interactive TV, was
pioneered in Columbus by Warner Cable and American Express.
(WSJ, 7/7/99, p.A23)
1978 Dec 15, Cleveland became the
first major US city since the Great Depression to default on its loans.
(AP, 12/15/08)
1978 Dec 30, Ohio State University
fired Woody Hayes as its football coach, one day after Hayes punched
Clemson University player Charlie Bauman during the Gator Bowl after
Bauman intercepted an Ohio pass.
(AP, 12/30/98)
1978 Devo, a new wave band from
Akron, Ohio, recorded "Are We Not Men?" The group played on the theme
of de-evolution and was led by Mark Mothersbaugh.
(SFEC, 9/27/98, DB p.41)
1979 Jan 4, Ohio officials
approved an out-of-court settlement awarding $675,000 to the victims
and families in the 1970 shootings at Kent State University, in which
four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops.
(HN,
1/4/99)(http://members.aol.com/nrbooks/chronol.htm)
1979 Dec 3, In Ohio 11 people were
killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum, where
The Who, a British rock group, was performing.
(AP, 12/3/97)(HN, 12/3/98)
1979 Aug, Twinsburg, Ohio, began
holding an annual festival and parade for twins.
(Econ, 8/14/04, p.70)
1980 Jan 11, Honda announced that
it would build Japan's first US passenger-car assembly plant in Ohio.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1980 Apr 5, Sister Margaret Ann
Pahl (71) was stabbed about 30 times and strangled to death. Her body
was found in the chapel of Mercy Hospital, Toledo, Ohio. In 2004 Rev.
Gerald Robinson (63) was arrested for the murder. In 2006 Robinson was
convicted of murder.
(SFC, 4/24/04, p.A2)(SFC, 5/12/06, p.A3)
1980 May 13, Ray Knight
(b.1952) of the Cincinnati Reds, following an 0-for-15 slump, hit 2
home runs in the 5th inning vs. NY Mets.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Knight)
1980 Oct 28, President Carter and
Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan faced off in a nationally
broadcast, 90-minute debate in Cleveland.
(AP, 10/28/98)
1980 Ted Stepien (1925-2007), a
classified ad whiz, paid $2 million for a controlling 37% share of the
Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team and eventually acquired 80% of the
shares. In 1983 he sold the team to George and Gordon Gund, owners of
Cleveland’s Coliseum, in a deal that included his advertising business.
In the 1981-1982 season the Cavaliers won 15 games and lost 67, one of
the worst records in NBA history.
(WSJ, 9/15/07, p.A6)
1981 Jun 23, The US Justice Dept.
revoked citizenship from John Demjanjuk Cleveland autoworker for
concealing wartime activities at immigration.
(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A3)
c1982 AgriGeneral established an
egg farm in Croton, Ohio. It changed hands and was expanded in 1996 in
Mt. Victoria along with a massive fly infestation. After the fly
epidemic it was fined $128,000 by the EPA for polluting a creek that
fed into the 230-mile Scioto River. The operation produced 2 million
eggs per day. More expansion was planned.
(SFC, 8/4/97, p.A3)
1982 Honda, the first Japanese
auto maker to start production in the US, began making the Honda Accord
at Marysville, Ohio.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(F, 10/7/96, p.71)(WSJ,
4/1/09, p.A20)
1983 Jun 2, A toilet caught fire
on Air Canada's DC-9 and 23 died at Cincinnati.
(SC, 6/2/02)
1983 John W. Byrd murdered a
convenience store worker. He was convicted and sentenced to death. He
was executed Feb 19, 2002, by lethal injection. He had earlier chosen
to die by the electric chair to demonstrate the brutality of the method.
(SFC, 2/20/02, p.A7)
1984 Jan 14, Cynthia Ann McGee was
poisoned at the Ohio State Univ. Hosp. In 2000 Dr. Michael Swango
pleaded guilty to the poisoning. [see 1985]
(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A2)
1984 Apr 7, Frank Church (59),
Sen-D-Ohio, (1957-81), died.
(MC, 4/7/02)
1984 Sep 21, In Cleveland, Ohio,
Romell Broom (28) raped a murdered Tryna Middleton (14) after abducting
her at knife-point as she walked home from a football game with
friends. His execution in 2009 was delayed as executioners failed to
find a good vein for lethal injection.
(www.associatedcontent.com/article/2185057/romell_brooms_execution_fails_over.html)
1984 The first US Synchronized
Skating championships were held in Bowling Green, Ohio, with 38 teams
competing.
(SFC, 2/23/09, p.E7)
1985 May 31, Some 41 tornadoes
swept through parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Ontario,
Canada, during an eight-hour period killing 88 people with over 1,000
injured.
(AP, 5/31/05)
1985 Sep 8, Pete Rose of the
Cincinnati Reds tied Ty Cobb's career record for hits with a single for
No. 4,191 during a game against the Cubs in Chicago.
(AP, 9/8/99)
1985 Sep 11, Pete Rose of the
Cincinnati Reds made his career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego
Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1985 In Ohio Dr. Michael Swango
was convicted of the non-lethal poisoning by arsenic of co-workers. He
was later accused of murdering as many as 35 patients. In 2000 James B.
Stewart authored “Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who got
Away With Murder.” In 2000 Swango was sentenced to life in prison.
(WSJ, 7/19/00, p.A22)(SFC, 9/6/00, p.A5)
1986 Jun 27, Don Rogers of the
Cleveland Browns died of cocaine poisoning.
(SC, 6/27/02)
1986 Jesus Lopez-Cobos became the
music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
(SFC, 1/26/00, p.B4)
1986 Feb 27 John Demjanjuk (66), a
retired auto worker from Ohio, was extradited to Israel on charges of
being "Ivan the Terrible," a Nazi death camp guard who had killed tens
of thousands of people. He was later convicted, but the Israeli Supreme
Court overturned the ruling.
(AP, 4/25/98)(SFC, 2/22/02,
p.A3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk)
1986 Jun 30, In Ohio a fire at the
Columbus Grove apartment complex killed 2-year-old Cynthia Collins. Ken
Richey (18) acknowledged he was intoxicated that night and did not
remember everything that happened. He agreed to plead no contest to
charges accusing him of leaving the toddler in harm's way by failing to
baby-sit the child after telling her mother that he would. He was
sentenced to the 21 years. In 2008 Richey returned to Scotland.
(AP,
1/9/08)(http://truthinjustice.org/richey-reversed.htm)
1986 Sep, In Ohio University of
Akron students Dawn McCreery (20) and Wendy Offredo (21) were sexually
assaulted and killed. Richard Cooey (19) and a co-defendant (17) were
convicted for the sexual assaults and slayings. The co-defendant was
sentenced to life in prison because of his age. Cooey was executed in
2008.
(AP, 10/14/08)
1987 Feb 16, John Demjanjuk (66),
a retired auto worker from Ohio, went on trial in Jerusalem, accused of
being "Ivan the Terrible," a guard at the Treblinka concentration camp.
He was convicted, but the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the ruling.
(AP,
2/16/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk)
1988 Apr 25, To the cheers of
spectators, a judge in Jerusalem sentenced John Demjanjuk to death
after the retired Ohio autoworker was convicted of being "Ivan the
Terrible," a Nazi death camp guard who had killed tens of thousands of
people. Demjanjuk's conviction was overturned in 1993.
(AP, 4/25/98)(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A3)
1988 May 2, Cincinnati Reds
baseball manager Pete Rose was suspended for 30 days by National League
president A. Bartlett Giamatti, two days after Rose shoved an umpire
during a game won by the New York Mets, 6-5.
(AP, 5/2/98)
1989 Jan 22, In Super Bowl XXXIII,
the San Francisco 49ers came from behind to defeat the Cincinnati
Bengals 20-to-16 in Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium.
(AP, 1/22/99)
1989 Apr 10, In Ohio Jeffrey
Lundgren (b.1950), a self-proclaimed prophet, led his cult in planning
and executing murders of the Avery family in order to bring about a
prophecy he interpreted from the Old Testament. Lundgren was convicted
of five counts of murder and executed on October 24, 2006 at the
Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Lundgren)
1989 Jun 19, Cincinnati Reds
manager Pete Rose sued baseball, arguing that Commissioner A. Bartlett
Giamatti should be prevented from hearing allegations that Rose had
gambled on baseball games.
(AP, 6/19/99)
1989 Jun 25, A judge in Cincinnati
temporarily blocked a hearing by baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett
Giamatti into allegations that Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose had
gambled on baseball games.
(AP, 6/25/99)
1989 Oct 20, Smith Dairy at
Orrville, Ohio, made the largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal).
(http://library.thinkquest.org/11960/fun/records.htm)
1990 Oct 5, A jury in Cincinnati
acquitted an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming
from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
(AP, 10/5/97)
1990 Oct 12, The Cincinnati Reds
won the National League pennant, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates
2-to-1.
(AP, 10/12/00)
1991 May 3, Carol Lutz (24) was
locked in the trunk of her car near Cleveland, Ohio, and burned to
death. In 2009 Daniel Wilson (39) was executed for her killing.
(SFC, 6/4/09,
p.A4)(http://zenas.org/bacheca/index.php?carol+lutz)
1992 Nov 3, Bill Clinton, governor
of Arkansas, was elected as the 42nd president of the United States,
defeating President Bush, who won 38% of the popular vote. Clinton won
Ohio by 2 percentage points.
(AP, 11/3/97)(HN, 11/3/98)(SSFC, 4/29/01,
p.D1)(Econ, 8/2/08, p.31)
1992 Dec, Vice-Pres. elect Al Gore
issued a press release to review plans of hazardous waste incinerator
in East Livermore. The plant, located on the Ohio River and 1,100 feet
from an elementary school, went into operation.
(SFEC, 9/17/00, p.A14)
1992 Dec 24, In Ohio Marvallous
Keene and three accomplices began a three-day binge of murder and
robbery in Dayton that left 6 people dead. On July 21, 2009, Keene (36)
was executed at a Lucasville prison, the 1000th person to die by lethal
injection in the US since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
(www.whiotv.com/news/20117736/detail.html)
1993 Mar 22, Cleveland Indians
pitchers Steve Olin and Tim Crews were killed when the boat they were
riding in slammed into a Florida pier; pitcher Bob Ojeda was seriously
injured.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1993 Apr 11, A deadly riot erupted
at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio.
(AP, 4/11/98)
1993 Apr 21, An 11-day siege at
the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville, Ohio, ended
after rioting inmates reached an agreement with prison officials. One
guard and nine inmates were killed during the siege.
(AP, 4/11/98)(AP, 4/21/98)
1993 Jul 29, The Israeli Supreme
Court acquitted retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk of being Nazi
death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible," and threw out his death sentence.
Demjanjuk was set free.
(AP, 7/29/98)
1993 Nov 17, An appeals court
reversed the 1986 extradition decision against retired Ohio autoworker
John Demjanjuk for being Nazi death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible."
(AP, 7/29/98)(SFC, 2/22/02, p.)
1994 May 18, The Tropical
Butterfly Garden at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opened.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1994 Jul 15, During a baseball
game between the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox in
Chicago's Comiskey Park, umpire Dave Phillips ordered the bat of Albert
Belle of the Indians to be removed from the game for later examination
for illegal cork. The bat was then stolen by pitcher Jason Grimsley,
who crawled through air ducts to take it. The Indians won the game 3-2
and later returned the bat under umpire threats and Belle was given a
10-game suspension that was reduced to 7 games.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A3)
1994 Sep, At the Oktoberfest in
Cincinnati a record for the ‘World’s Largest Chicken Dance" was set
with 48,000 people dancing.
(WSJ, 9/21/98, p.B1)
1994-1996 Dennis Kucinich served as Ohio state
senator.
(SFC, 1/10/04, p.A2)
1995 Sep 1, A ribbon-cutting
ceremony was held for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland,
Ohio.
(AP, 9/1/00)
1995 Oct 16-18, The US named the
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, as the site for the
peace talks for the countries of the former Yugoslavia.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)
1995 Oct 17, The Cleveland Indians
won the American League pennant by defeating the Seattle Mariners,
4-to-0, in game six of their playoff series.
(AP, 10/17/00)
1995 Oct 26, The Cleveland Indians
won their second game of the World Series by defeating the Atlanta
Braves, 5-to-4, in game five.
(AP, 10/26/00)
1995 Oct 28, The Atlanta Braves
defeated the Cleveland Indians, 1-0, to win the World Series in Game 6.
(AP, 10/28/00)
1995 Nov 6, Cleveland Browns
owner Art Modell announced plans to move his team to Baltimore.
(AP, 11/6/00)
1995 Dec 14, An agreement for
peace in Bosnia, reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton,
Ohio, was formally signed. Presidents Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia,
Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia signed the
Bosnian peace treaty in Paris. The agreement divided Bosnia into 2
autonomous territories and granted 51% of Bosnia to the Muslim-Croat
federation and 49% to the Serbs. Elections were scheduled and a force
of 60,000 Western troops was planned for deployment. A 3-member
presidency and a national parliament was also part of the plan. The
office of High Representative was created to oversee the implementation
of the civilian aspects of the Peace Agreement.
(SFC, 1/19/98, p.A8)(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A8)(AP,
12/14/00)(www.ohr.int/)
1995 The Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame opened in Cleveland.
(SFC,10/24/97, p.E3)
1995 American Heritage Girls was
founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a Christian alternative to the Girl
Scouts. By 2004 there were some 2,800 members in 22 states.
(USAT, 3/23/04, p.9D)
1995 Larry Wayne Harris was
arrested in Lancaster for possession of bubonic plague bacteria. A
search of his home found certificates identifying him as a member of
the Aryan Nations Church.
(SFC, 2/20/98, p.A9)
1995 The Buckeye Egg Farm began
operations in La Rue. A fly problem due to the chicken manure was
solved by using the Darkling beetle. The beetle took care of the flies
and infested the manure which was sold to local farmers. The beetles
then proceeded to infest the homes of the local farmers.
(WSJ, 11/3/97, p.A1)
1996 Feb 8, NFL and Cleveland
allowed Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Baltimore but he had to
leave the Browns' name behind.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1996 Jun, Millions of mayflies
invaded Toledo, Ohio, and caused a massive power blackout when they
smothered an electrical generation plant.
(SFC, 6/29/96, p.C1)
1996 Sep 1, The record for the
‘World’s Largest Chicken Dance" was broken in Canfield with 72,000
people dancing.
(WSJ, 9/21/98, p.B1)
1996 Nov 5, Pres. William
Jefferson Clinton was re-elected in the US but voters kept
Congress in Republican control. He won about 50% of the popular vote
and 375 electoral votes. Republican candidate Bob Dole got 43% and 135
electoral votes. Clinton won Ohio by 6 percentage points.
(SFC, 11/6/96, p.A1)(AP, 11/5/97)(Econ, 8/2/08, p.31)
1996 Nov 5, Dennis Kucinich was
elected to the US Congress.
(SFC, 1/10/04, p.A2)
1996 The music ensemble eighth
blackbird was founded by students at the Oberlin Conservatory.
(WSJ, 5/10/01, p.A16)
1997 Feb 10, The city of
Cincinnati revealed plans for a new $80-million museum for its role in
the Underground Railroad during the Civil War. The museum and freedom
center were scheduled to open in 2002.
(USAT, 2/11/97, p.D1)
1997 Feb, In Wilmington 2 members
of the Aryan Nations were involved in a shootout with police, the day
before the group had scheduled a rally to protest Black History Month.
(SFC, 2/20/98, p.A9)
1997 Mar 1, Severe storms hit
Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi, and spawned tornadoes in
Arkansas blamed for two dozen deaths.
(AP, 3/1/98)
1997 Aug 7, Kay Halle, a glamorous
Cleveland department store heiress, died at 93 in Washington. She had
written for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and conducted news interviews
with public figures.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.A17)
1997 Aug 12, Steel workers in West
Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania ended a 10-month strike at
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. with a new contract. It was the longest
strike by a major steel company.
(SFC, 8/13/97, p.A3)
1997 Sep 10, The ashes of Eliot
Ness, FBI agent, were laid to rest in Cleveland.
(HIR, 9/11/97, p.11B)
1997 Sep, In Newark the new $30
mil. Longaberger Co. headquarters building was shaped like a picnic
basket and designed by the NBBJ architecture firm of Columbus.
(WSJ, 10/15/97, p.B1)
1997 Oct 18, The Florida Marlins
beat the Cleveland Indians 7-4 in game one of the World Series.
(AP, 10/18/98)
1997 Oct 19, The Cleveland Indians
defeated the Florida Marlins 6-1 in game two of the World Series,
evening the series at one game apiece.
(AP, 10/19/98)
1997 Oct 22, Larry Flynt sold
Hustler in a non-zoned area of Cincinnati despite a revamped city
ordinance designed to keep stores selling adult materials out of
downtown.
(www.citybeat.com/archives/1998/issue406/coverarticle1.html)
1997 Oct 25, The Cleveland Indians
avoided elimination in the World Series by defeating the Florida
Marlins, 4-1, in game six.
(AP, 10/25/98)
1997 Oct 26, The Florida Marlins
beat the Cleveland Indians in game 7 of the Baseball World Series 3:2.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.E1)
1998 Jan 21, The FBI arrested
dozens of prison guards and police officers in the Cleveland area
following a 2-year sting operation on cocaine trafficking.
(SFC, 1/22/98, p.A7)
1998 cJan 30, In Washington the
creation of The National First Ladies’ Library was announced at the
Renwick Gallery. Physical materials will be located in Canton, Ohio, in
the childhood home of Ida Saxton McKinley, the 20th first lady.
(SFC, 2/5/98, p.A8)
1998 Feb 20, US citizenship was
restored to retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk.
(AP, 7/29/98)(SFC, 2/22/02, p.)
1998 May 24, A Hall of Fame for
American classical music was scheduled to open in Cincinnati.
(SFEC, 3/29/98, Par p.18)
1998 Jun 28, The Cincinnati
Enquirer published an apology and agreed to pay Chiquita Brands Int’l.
$10 million to avoid suit for articles critical of the company’s
business. The articles were reportedly based on voice mails stolen from
Chiquita. Chiquita is based in Cincinnati and is controlled by
financier Carl H. Lindner Jr. Reporter Michael Gallagher was fired and
later sued by Chiquita. His 18-page article alleged that Chiquita used
life-threatening pesticides, had a Honduran Army raze a village to
close a plantation, and that Colombian officials had been bribed to
allow the shipment of drugs on its ships.
(SFC, 6/29/98, p.A4)(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A13)
1998 Jun, Devan Duniver (5) was
stabbed to death. A 12-year-old boy was charged and later sentenced to
detention until age 21, though he pleaded innocence in New Philadelphia.
(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A3)
1998 Jul 29, The Powerball jackpot
of 20 East Coast states reached $292 million and the winning numbers
were 8-39-43-45-49. A group of 13 machinists from Ohio, who bought
their tickets in Indiana, elected to take a $161.5 million lump sum
payout.
(SFC, 7/30/98, p.A2)(SFC, 7/31/98, p.A3)
1998 Jul 31, Bicycle production at
the Huffy plant in Celina ended 44 years of production and 650 workers
lost their jobs.
(SFC, 8/6/93, p.A8)
1998 Aug 19, In Cleveland 49
prison guards, police officers and sheriff’s deputies pleaded guilty to
conspiracy charges related to cocaine distribution from an FBI sting
operation from Oct 1996 to Jan 1998.
(SFC, 8/20/98, p.A3)
1998 Aug 25, In Cincinnati, Ohio,
4 boys under age 11 were charged in the sexual assault of a 7-year-old
girl.
(SFC, 8/26/98, p.A3)
1998 Sep 19, At the 22nd annual
Oktoberfest in Cincinnati 25,000 kazoos were distributed in an attempt
to set a Guinness record for the "World’s Largest Kazoo Band."
(WSJ, 9/21/98, p.B1)
1998 Oct 14, Frankie Yankovic
(83), the Polka King from Cleveland, died. He played a Slovenian-style
polka on the accordion with clarinet and saxophone as opposed to the
Polish style which uses the accordion with trumpets and has a faster
beat.
(SFC, 10/15/98, p.C6)
1998 Nov 12, Lewis Merletti, head
of the Secret Service, quit his position to coordinate security for the
Cleveland Browns football team.
(WSJ, 11/12/98, p.A1)
1999 Jan 17, In Bryan, Ohio, 3
freight trains crashed into each other and 2 crew members were killed.
(SFC, 1/18/99, p.A5)
1999 Feb 19, Ohio inmate Wilford
Berry, "The Volunteer", became the first inmate to be executed in Ohio
since 1963.
(www.drc.state.oh.us/Public/capital.htm)
1999 Apr 9, A tornado hit the
Cincinnati area and 7 people were reported killed.
(SFC, 4/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 25, In Dayton Roger
Troutman (47) died from gunshot wounds and Larry Troutman (54) was
found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The scene was
described as a apparent slaying-suicide. The two had formed the 1970s
band Zapp and scored a 1980 hit with "More Bounce to the Ounce." Roger
Troutman recorded the 1987 hit "I Want to Be Your Man."
(SFC, 4/26/99, p.A8)
1999 Apr 28, The Cincinnati City
Council voted 5-4 to file suit for millions in damages from handgun
manufacturers for expenses due to gun violence.
(SFC, 4/28/99, p.A3)
1999 May 9, Five skydivers and
their pilot died when their plane crashed after takeoff at Lakefield
Airport in Montezuma.
(SFC, 5/10/99, p.A5)
1999 May 19, The US Justice Dept.
moved to revoke the citizenship of John Demjanjuk (79), a retired
Cleveland autoworker, and said it had new evidence that he was a death
camp guard at Treblinka during WW II.
(SFC, 5/20/99, p.A4)
1999 Jul 25, In the Cincinnati
area 7 people were reported dead over the weekend from sweltering heat.
(SFC, 7/26/99, p.A7)
1999 Aug 1, In North Lima a small
plane crashed after takeoff and 4 of 5 people were killed.
(SFC, 8/2/99, p.A5)
1999 Aug 24, A federal judge
halted the state's 4-year-old tuition voucher program saying that it
violated constitutional mandates for separation of church and state.
Officials scrambled to absorb 3,800 students participating in the
program. The judge later reversed the decision and allowed some
students to use vouchers, but no new participants.
(SFC, 8/25/99, p.A3)(SFC, 8/28/99, p.A3)
1999 Aug, Inventure Place in
Akron, home of the National Inventors Hall of Fame designed by Polshek
and Partners, won the American Institute of Architect's honor award.
(SFEC, 8/8/99, p.C18)
1999 Sep 1, In Brooklyn, Ohio,
police began ticketing motorists using cell phones while driving.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A6)
1999 Oct 21, The US Justice Dept.
sued the city of Columbus, Ohio, for a pattern of civil rights
violations by the police.
(WSJ, 10/22/99, p.A1)
1999 Oct 29, In Cleveland, Ohio, 4
white 9th grade students at South High, ages 14-15, were arrested for
planning a Columbine-styled racial massacre.
(SFC, 10/30/99, p.A3)(SFC, 11/1/99, p.A3)
1999 Nov 2, In Columbus Michael
Coleman (44) was elected as the first black mayor of the city.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.A17)
1999 Nov 23, In Stone Creek fog on
I-77 caused a pileup of 20 cars that left 2 people dead and 15 to
hospitals.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.A12)
1999 Nov, The new $125 million
Center of Science and Industry opened in Columbus. It was designed by
Arata Isozaki.
(WSJ, 11/10/99, p.B14)
1999 Dec 20, A federal judge ruled
that a school voucher program in Cleveland violates the Constitution's
separation of church and state.
(SFC, 12/21/99, p.A1)
1999 David Longaberger, head of a
basket-making empire, died. In 2001 his autobiography was published:
"Longaberger: An American Success Story."
(WSJ, 4/3/01, p.A22)
2000 Jan 24, Paavo Jarvi was
selected to succeed Jesus Lopez-Cobos as the music director of the
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
(SFC, 1/26/00, p.B4)
2000 Apr 7, A Civil Rights
Memorial was dedicated at Miami Univ. in Oxford for the 3 young men
killed in Mississippi in 1964. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael
Schwerner had trained at the Western College for Women, which became
part of Miami Univ.
(SFC, 4/8/00, p.A10)
2000 Apr 25, The state motto,
"with God, all things are possible," was declared unconstitutional by a
federal appeals court.
(SFC, 4/26/00, p.B8)
2000 Sep 1, In Cincinnati officer
Kevin Crayon (40) died of head injuries when he fell from a moving car.
He was trying to stop Courtney Mathis (12) from driving and shot Mathis
in an apparent attempt to stop the car from hitting some children.
Mathis died 4 hours later while under surgery.
(SFC, 9/2/00, p.A2)
2000 Sep 4, In Ava, Noble County,
Richard Pangle (27), his wife Sheryl (29) and their 5 children (5-12),
were found dead inside their burning trailer in what appeared to be a
murder-suicide.
(SFC, 9/5/00, p.A7)
2000 Sep, A possible tornado in
Xenia killed at least one person and inured 100 with widespread damage
to homes and businesses.
(SFC, 9/23/00, p.A22)
2000 Oct 3, In Ravenna Theresa
Andrews (23) was found buried in the dirt floor of a garage owned by
Michelle Bica (39). Andrews, missing since Sep 27, had been pregnant
and was found with her abdomen cut and baby missing. The baby was found
asleep in the suspect’s home.
(SFC, 10/4/00, p.A4)
2000 Nov 7, Derrick Seaver (18)
became the youngest resident ever elected to the state legislature.
(SFC, 11/23/01, p.D5)
2000 Nov 17, In Cincinnati at
least 6 people were arrested following protests against meetings of
corporate executives from the US and Europe for the Transatlantic
Business Dialogue.
(SFC, 11/18/00, .A3)
2000 Dec 11, A federal appeals
court declared the Cleveland school voucher program unconstitutional.
(SFC, 12/12/00, p.A3)
2001 Mar 4, Former 4-term Gov.
James A. Rhodes died at age 91.
(SFC, 3/5/01, p.A24)
2001 Mar 21, Ronnie Davis, San
Francisco Housing Chief, was indicted in Ohio for stealing hundreds of
thousands of dollars during his tenure at the Cleveland housing
authority.
(SFC, 3/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 7, In Cincinnati Timothy
Thomas (19) was shot to death by Officer Stephen Roach who tried to
arrest him on 14 warrants. Roach was later charged with negligent
homicide and obstructing official business. Roach was acquitted Sep 26.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.A10)(SFC, 5/8/01, p.A3)(SFC,
9/27/01, p.A11)
2001 Apr 10, A 2nd day of riots
took place in Cincinnati due to the death 4 days earlier of Timothy
Thomas (19), who was shot to death by police who tried to arrest him on
14 warrants.
(SFC, 4/11/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 12, In Cincinnati Mayor
Charles Luken imposed a citywide curfew and other measures to prevent a
4th night of riots following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man
by police.
(SFC, 4/13/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 15, Mayor Luken rolled
back Cincinnati’s dawn-to-dusk curfew to 11 p.m.
(SFC, 4/16/01, p.A1)
2001 Apr 16, Mayor Luken lifted
Cincinnati’s citywide curfew.
(SFC, 4/17/01, p.A3)
2001 Jun 5, Ohio health officials
urged 5,800 students near alliance to bet vaccinated against meningitis
due to the recent deaths of 2 students.
(WSJ, 6/6/01, p.A1)
2001 Jul 3, In Columbus Brian
Dalton (22) was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fiction writing in
his journal about sexually abusing and torturing children.
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.A4)
2001 Jul 18, Thunderstorms in
southwestern Ohio killed 3 people.
(SFC, 7/19/01, p.A6)
2001 Jul 29, A tractor engine
exploded at a county fair and 4 people were killed in Medina.
(SFC, 7/30/01, p.A3)
2001 Sep 26, In Cincinnati Stephen
Roach, a white police officer, was acquitted of all charges in the
April shooting of Timothy Thomas (19). The acquittal sparked more
unrest.
(SFC, 9/27/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 9/28/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 16, Nancy Fitzgivens
(53), social worker, was stabbed to death in Columbus while
interviewing a couple whose 7 children she had helped take away.
(SFC, 10/18/01, p.C2)
2001 Nov, Ohio banned the use of
the electric chair for criminal executions.
(SFC, 2/20/02, p.A7)
2001 Terry Ryan authored "the
Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25
Words or Less."
(SSFC, 4/1/01, BR p.1)
2002 Jan 11, Frank Gruttadauria
(44), Lehman Brothers stockbroker, was last seen in Cleveland. It was
later reported that $300 million were missing from the accounts of some
2 dozen Lehman clients. Gruttadauria turned himself in Feb 9.
(WSJ, 2/8/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 2/10/02, p.A15)
2002 Feb 15, Peter Voulkos
(b.1924), ceramic artist, died in Bowling Green, Ohio.
(www.ceramicsculpture.com/Pages-Voulkos/obit.htm)
2002 Feb 19, Virginia Esther
Hamilton, award winning black author, died in Dayton at age 65. Her 35
children’s books "Zeely" (1967) and "M.C. Higgins, the Great" (1973).
(SFC, 2/25/02, p.B6)
2002 Feb 21, A US federal judge
stripped John Demjanjuk (81), retired Cleveland autoworker, of his
citizenship a 2nd time for concealing wartime activities at immigration.
(SFC, 2/22/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 16, In Ohio Brittanie
Cecil (13) was struck by a flying hockey puck during a game between the
hometown Columbus Blue Jackets and the Calgary Flames; she died two
days later.
(AP, 3/15/07)
2002 Mar 18, In Ohio Brittanie
Cecil (13) died 2 days after being hit by a hockey puck while watching
an NHL game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and Calgary Flames. It
was apparently the first such fan fatality in NHL history.
(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A2)(AP, 3/18/07)
2002 Apr 3, Cincinnati agreed to
restrictions on the use of force and announced plans to establish an
independent agency to investigate police brutality complaints.
(SFC, 4/4/02, p.A4)
2002 Apr 10, In Ohio a state
appeals court declared a ban on concealed weapons to be
unconstitutional. 5 other states, all in the Midwest, carried similar
laws banning concealed weapons.
(SFC, 4/11/02, p.A7)
2002 Apr 11, Rep. James A
Traficant Jr. (60), Democrat from Youngstown, was convicted on 10
felony counts of racketeering and corruption.
(SFC, 4/12/02, p.A3)
2002 Apr 28, Storms hit the Ohio
and Tennessee valleys with tornadoes in Missouri and Maryland. At least
6 people were killed.
(SFC, 4/29/02, p.A3)(WSJ, 4/30/02, p.A1)(AP, 4/28/07)
2002 May 28, Mildred Wirt Benson
(96), newspaperwoman and creator of the "Nancy Drew" children's mystery
stories (1930), died in Toledo, Ohio. She wrote under the direction of
Edward Stratemeyer and used the pen name Carolyn Keene.
(WSJ, 5/31/02, p.A13)(AP,
5/28/03)(http://tinyurl.com/e39rt)
2002 Jun 27, The US Supreme Court
ruled to allow random drug searches in public schools on students who
engage in extracurricular activities. The court also upheld a Cleveland
school voucher program in Zelman vs. Simmons-Harris.
(SFC, 6/28/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/10/03, p.D5)
2002 Jul 24, The US House voted
420-1 to oust Rep. James Traficant, an Ohio Democrat. On July 30
Traficant was sentenced to 8 years in prison for bribery and
racketeering.
(SFC, 7/25/02, p.A1)(SFC, 7/31/02, p.A4)(SFC,
9/2/09, p.A6)
2002 Jul 30, Expelled from
Congress a week earlier, an unrepentant Ohio Democrat James A.
Traficant Jr. was sentenced to eight years behind bars for corruption
and made it clear he intended to run for re-election from his prison
cell — and expected to win. He didn't. Traficant was released from
prison in Rochester, Minnesota, on Sep 2, 2009.
(AP, 7/30/03)(SFC, 9/3/09, p.A6)
2002 Nov 10, A series of
pulverizing storms barreled through more than a half-dozen US states
including Tennessee, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi and Pennsylvania,
killing at least 36 people. More than 100 were injured.
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.A4)(AP, 11/10/07)
2003 Jan 3, Ohio State beat Miami
in the Fiesta Bowl 31-24 in double overtime to become the national
college football champion.
(SFC, 1/4/03, p.C1)
2003 Apr 8, In Ohio a Dassault
Aviation Falcon 20 crashed short of the runway at Toledo Express
Airport and 3 people were killed.
(SFC, 4/9/03, p.A3)
2003 Apr 13, In Columbus, Ohio, a
fire at a student-rented house left 5 people dead.
(SFC, 4/14/03, p.A1)
2003 May 9, In Cleveland, Ohio,
Biswanath Halder (62), a camouflage-clad gunman, fired hundreds of
rounds as he roamed the halls of the Case Western Univ. Weatherhead
School of management, killing Norman Wallace (30), of Youngstown and
wounding others. He was arrested after a 7-hour standoff. Halder was
later convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 5/10/03, p.A3)(SSFC, 5/11/03, p.A1)(AP, 5/9/08)
2003 Jul 4, Manuel Gehring (44)
shot and killed his 2 children, Philip (11) and Sarah (14), following a
dispute with his wife in Concord, NH. He was later arrested in Gilroy,
Ca. He confessed to police that he shot and killed his 2 children in
New Hampshire and buried them in the Midwest. In 2005 authorities found
the bodies of the 2 children buried off I-80 in Ohio. Gehring committed
suicide in his jail cell on February 19, 2004 at the Merrimack County
Jail in Boscawen, New Hampshire.
(SFC, 8/1/03, p.A3)(SSFC, 12/4/05,
p.A22)(http://tinyurl.com/62dfka)
2003 Jul 13, In Ohio Benjamin
White (17) grabbed Casey Hilmer (13) as she was jogging in suburban
Indian Hills, dragged her to a wooded area and stabbed her in the face
and neck. In 2005 jurors decided that his parents must bear most of the
responsibility, as they awarded $10 million to the injured victim and
her family.
(AP, 8/21/05)
2003 cAug 19, An Ohio auto-parts
worker shot a woman to death and wounded 2 other employees in Andover.
(WSJ, 8/20/03, p.A1)
2003 Oct 13, Ohio Democratic
congressman Dennis Kucinich formally kicked off his presidential bid.
(AP, 10/13/04)
2003 Nov 20, The Archdiocese of
Cincinnati agreed to pay $10,000 in fines after pleading no contest to
failing to inform authorities about sex-abuse allegations.
(WSJ, 11/21/03, p.A1)
2003 Nov 25, Gail Knisley (62) was
shot and killed while riding in a car on a highway in Columbus, Ohio.
It was the only fatality in a series of shootings that terrified area
drivers. A suspect, Charles A. McCoy Jr., was arrested March 17, 2004.
McCoy later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and 10 other charges, and
was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
(AP, 11/25/04)(AP, 11/25/08)
2003 Nov 28, In Ohio authorities
said for the 1st time they had linked the Nov. 25 death of Gail Knisley
to at least one of 10 other reports of shots fired at vehicles along
I-270.
(AP, 11/29/03)
2003 Nov 30, In Cincinnati, Ohio,
a 350-pound black man died after being clubbed by police. An autopsy
showed that Nathaniel Jones (41) had an enlarged heart and that his
blood contained cocaine and PCP.
(SFC, 12/2/03, p.A3)
2003 Dec 2, Authorities in Ohio
announced that they had linked 12 shootings along a five-mile stretch
of interstate around Columbus, including one that killed a woman and
another that broke a window at an elementary school. A suspect was
arrested the following March. Charles A. McCoy Jr., later pleaded
guilty to manslaughter and 10 other charges, and was sentenced to 27
years in prison.
(AP, 12/2/04)(AP, 12/2/08)
2003 Dec 18, An Ohio school
district suspended classes after bullet holes were found in 2 of its
buses.
(WSJ, 12/19/03, p.A1)
2004 Jan 6, The Ohio Lottery
awarded $162 million to Rebecca Jemison (34). Elicia Battle (40), who
initially claimed to have lost the Dec 30 winning ticket, recanted on
Jan 8.
(SFC, 1/9/04, p.A2)
2004 Jan 9, An Ohio woman who'd
claimed to have lost a lottery ticket worth $162 million was charged
with filing a false police report. Elecia Battle was later convicted of
the misdemeanor and put on one year's probation.
(AP, 1/9/05)
2004 Jan 21, Ohio lawmakers gave
final approval to a measure banning gay marriage and prohibiting state
employees from getting benefits for domestic partners. Gov. Bob Taft
said he would sign it pending a legal review.
(SFC, 1/22/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 26, Cleveland City Hall
began a domestic partner's registry, the 1st in the nation created by
voters.
(SFC, 1/27/04, p.A3)
2004 Feb 3, The Ohio Legislature
approved a ban on same-sex marriage and barred benefits to both
homosexual and heterosexual domestic partners. Gov. Taft planned to
sign the bill.
(SFC, 2/4/04, p.A6)
2004 Feb 16, In Ohio a crane
collapsed at an I-80 bridge near Toledo and 3 workers were killed.
(WSJ, 2/17/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 8, An Ohio nuclear power
plant was allowed to reopen following a 2-year shutdown over an acid
leak.
(WSJ, 3/9/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 15, Ohio police
identified Charles A. McCoy Jr. (28) as the gunman in two dozen highway
shootings that have terrorized motorists for months.
(AP, 3/16/04)(SFC, 3/18/04, p.A4)
2004 Mar 17, Charles A. McCoy Jr.,
suspected in a series of highway shootings in central Ohio, was
arrested in Las Vegas.
(AP, 3/17/05)
2004 May, Ohio began allowing
payment of child support via debit cards.
(USAT, 1/30/04, p.7A)
2004 Jun 14, John Ashcroft
unsealed an indictment against Nuradin Abdi, a Somali immigrant, on
charges of plotting with al Qaeda operatives to blow up a shopping mall
in Columbus, Ohio. Abdi was arrested on immigration charges on Nov 28,
2003. Abdi was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2007 after pleading
guilty in an alleged plot to blow up an Ohio shopping mall.
(SFC, 6/15/04, p.A3)(AP, 2/27/09)
2004 Aug 18, Two campers were
found slain at Fish Head Beach in Sonoma Ct., Ca. Lindsay Cutshall (23)
of Fresno, Ohio, and Jason Allen (26) of Holland, Mich., were found
with gunshots to the head. They had planned a wedding next month.
(SFC, 8/21/04,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenner,_California_Double-Murder_of_2004)
2004 Aug 21, In Ohio health
officials said cases of gastrointestinal illness had risen to 510 from
people in the Put-in-Bay resort area.
(SSFC, 8/22/04, p.A3)
2004 Sep 2, Ohio began checkpoints
along its border with Michigan to prevent transport of firewood from
Michigan to stop the spread of emerald ash borer, a tree-killing beetle.
(SFC, 9/3/04, p.A7)
2004 Sep 12, In Columbus, Ohio, a
suspected arson fire in an apartment complex left 10 people dead.
(SFC, 9/13/04, p.A3)
2004 Oct 24, A fire in Toledo,
Ohio, killed 7 children.
(USAT, 10/27/04, p.3A)
2004 Nov 2, In US presidential
elections a federal appeals court cleared the way for political parties
to send in people to challenge voters' eligibility at Ohio polling
places. US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens allowed Republicans
to challenge voter qualifications at the polls in Ohio. Pres. Bush won
the elections spending an estimated $5.20 for each of his votes.
(AP, 11/2/04)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.50)
2004 Dec 6, Ohio certified
President Bush's victory over John Kerry, even as the Kerry campaign
and third-party candidates prepared to demand a statewide recount. Bush
won Ohio by 118,600 votes.
(AP, 12/06/05)(Econ, 8/2/08, p.31)
2004 Dec 8, In Columbus, Ohio,
Nathan Gale (25) charged on stage and opened fire on a heavy metal band
at a crowded bar, killing top heavy metal guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell
Abbott and 3 others and wounding two before being killed by police.
(AP, 12/9/04)(SFC, 12/10/04, p.A3)
2005 Jan 26, In Ohio an employee
at the Toledo North Assembly Jeep plant shot 3 co-workers, killing one,
before taking his own life.
(SFC, 1/27/05, p.A3)
2005 Feb 24, In Ohio Rosemarie
Essa was killed in a car crash after losing consciousness from a
cyanide pill. Her husband Dr. Yazeed Essa vanished in 2006 and was
arrested months later in Cyprus. In 2009 he returned to Cleveland to
face murder charges.
(SSFC, 1/11/09,
p.A4)(www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=37583)
2005 Apr 24, An unusual spring
storm dumped nearly 2 feet of wet snow on parts of the Midwest and
Appalachians, covering newly sprouting plants, snapping power lines and
taking a bite out of baseball. 80,000 in the Cleveland area lost their
electricity.
(AP, 4/25/05)(WSJ, 4/25/05, p.A1)
2005 May 21, In east Cleveland,
Ohio, a fire broke out during a sleepover at a crowded house, killing
seven kids and two adults.
(AP, 5/22/05)
2005 May 27, A lawyer for Thomas
Noe, Ohio coin dealer and Republican Party man, reported that as much
as $13 million of the state’s $50 million investment in Noe’s rare coin
fund could not be accounted for [see Oct 27].
(SFC, 5/28/05, p.A4)
2005 May 29, In Bellefontaine,
Ohio, an 18-year-old who was about to graduate from high school is
believed to have fatally shot his grandparents, mother and two family
friends before killing himself.
(AP, 5/30/05)
2005 Jun 23, Ohio Republican Gov.
Bob Taft was reported to be mired in a scandal that started with a
questionable state investment in rare coins. It had the governor and
other Republicans all the way to Pres. Bush scrambling to give back
potentially tainted campaign contributions.
(AP, 6/23/05)
2005 Aug 9, Charles McCoy Jr.
pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and 10 other charges in a
series of Ohio highway shootings and was sentenced to 27 years in
prison.
(AP, 8/9/06)
2005 Aug 10, Tennessee prison
inmate George Hyatte and his wife, Jennifer, surrendered in Columbus,
Ohio, a day after she'd allegedly ambushed two prison guards at a
courthouse, killing one of them, to help her husband escape. Jennifer
Hyatte was later sentenced to life in prison by agreeing to testify
against her husband. George Hyatte, already facing 41 years of
incarceration, awaited trial in the murder of Wayne Morgan and escaping
jail.
(AP,
8/10/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_courthouse_shooting)
2005 Aug 18, Ohio Gov. Bob Taft
pleaded no contest to charges that he broke state ethics law by failing
to report golf outings and other gifts. A judge found him guilty and
fined him $4,000.
(AP, 8/18/05)
2005 Sep 1, It was reported that
13% (64 of 490) of the female students at Timken Senior High School in,
Canton, Ohio are pregnant. One girl, eight months pregnant, said she
believes the school's abstinence-based sex education program isn't
enough.
(AP,
9/1/05)(http://cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=238435)
2005 Sep 19, In Ohio Katelind
Caudill (13) was shot and killed by Melvin Keeling (43) because she
told authorities her best friend was being molested. Keeling fled the
Cincinnati area. He was also sought for the killing of 2 convenience
store clerks, Lisa Kendall (29) and Kendora Furr (38) at the Family
Express store in Remington, Indiana. On Sep 28 more than a dozen
investigators on the Keeling task force combed the woods in Gary,
Indiana and found the fugitive's wallet, ID and other personal items a
few blocks from where Keeling abandoned his van. Tracking dogs also
followed Keeling's scent from the wooded area to nearby train tracks.
He was an apparent suicide.
(SFC, 9/22/05,
p.A6)(www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=34686)
2005 Oct 15, In Toledo, Ohio, a
riot broke out when protesters confronted members of the National
Socialist Movement who had gathered at a city park. More than 100
people were arrested and one officer was seriously injured.
(AP, 10/16/05)
2005 Oct 27, Tom Noe, a coin
dealer already embroiled in an Ohio state government scandal, was
charged with funneling $45,400 to other people to contribute to
President Bush's re-election campaign in an attempt to skirt a $2,000
limit on individual contributions. In Sep, 2006, Noe was sentenced to 2
years and 3 months in prison and fined $136,200 for the illegal
contributions. He still faced trial for embezzlement. In Nov, 2006, Noe
was convicted of theft, corrupt activity, money laundering, forgery and
tampering with records and sentenced to 18 years in prison.
(AP, 10/28/05)(SFC, 9/13/06, p.A4)(AP, 11/20/06)
2005 Nov 8, In Ohio Cincinnati
voters elected a black mayor for the first time. State Sen. Mark
Mallory defeated Councilman David Pepper, both Democrats, in a
nonpartisan mayoral runoff.
(AP, 11/9/05)
2005 Nov 25, US federal agents in
Cleveland arrested Imam Damra, the spiritual leader of Ohio’s biggest
mosque, as they began the process of deporting him for his ties to
terrorist groups.
(WSJ, 11/26/05, p.A1)
2005 Nov 29, Ohio carried out the
nation's 999th execution since 1977, putting to death a man who
strangled his mother-in-law while high on cocaine and later killed his
5-year-old stepdaughter to cover up the crime.
(AP, 11/29/05)
2005 Dec 1, A dog and its owner
found the bodies of Sarah and Philip Gehring, two children who'd been
fatally shot by their father and buried in rural Ohio.
(AP, 12/1/06)
2005 Dec 28, In Cleveland an
immigration judge renewed the order that John Demjanjuk (85), a retired
auto worker accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard at Sobibor
in Poland (1943), be deported to his native Ukraine. Demjanjuk appealed
the deportation order. In 2009 Demjanjuk was set to be deported to
stand murder charges in Munich, Germany, but won a last minute stay on
his 89th birthday. The stay was revoked a few days later.
(SFC, 12/29/05, p.A3)(WSJ, 12/29/05, p.A1)(SFC,
4/4/09, p.A6)(SFC, 4/7/09, p.A6)
2006 Jan 2, No. 4 Ohio State beat
No. 5 Notre Dame 34-20 in the Fiesta Bowl.
(AP, 1/2/07)
2006 Jan 15, A spokesman said Rep
Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican implicated in a lobbying corruption
investigation, will step aside temporarily as chairman of the US House
Administration Committee.
(AP, 1/16/06)
2006 Jan 20, FirstEnergy agreed to
a record $28 million fine as workers at its Ohio Davis-Besse nuclear
power station were accused of providing false statements on cleaning
and inspections at the reactor vessel head.
(WSJ, 1/21/06, p.A6)
2006 Feb 21, US federal courts in
Ohio charged 3 men, originally from Jordan and Lebanon, with conspiring
to kill US forces in Iraq.
(SFC, 2/22/06, p.A3)
2006 Mar 10, Ohio State,
acknowledging eight of nine violations alleged by the NCAA, was placed
on three years' probation.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2006 May 2, Joseph Clark was
executed at a state prison in Lucasville, Ohio. After Clark was finally
pronounced dead, 86 minutes after the process began, an autopsy showed
19 needle puncture wounds from the process. In 2007 Irma Clark filed
suit in the Cincinnati, Ohio, district court, alleging her son was
exposed to "excessive suffering" violating the US constitution.
(AFP, 7/3/07)
2006 May 8, A former top aide to
Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate in
the corruption and influence-peddling investigation involving lobbyist
Jack Abramoff.
(Reuters, 5/8/06)
2006 May 11, A priest was
convicted in Toledo, Ohio, of murdering a nun; the Rev. Gerald Robinson
was immediately sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for the 1980
death of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl.
(AP, 5/11/07)
2006 Jun 18, American Delegates at
the Episcopal General Convention in Columbus, Ohio, elected Bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori (52) as their next leader. She would become
the first woman to lead any member of the global Anglican Communion.
(SFC, 6/19/06, p.A2)
2006 Aug 9, In Ohio Osama Sabhi
Abulhassan (20) and Ali Houssaiky (20), both of Dearborn, Mich., were
charged with money laundering in support of terrorism after authorities
said they found airplane passenger lists and information on airport
security checkpoints in their car.
(AP, 8/9/06)
2006 Sep 15, US Rep. Bob Ney,
R-Ohio, agreed to plead guilty to two criminal charges in the
congressional corruption probe spawned by disgraced lobbyist Jack
Abramoff.
(AP, 9/15/07)
2006 Sep, In Kenya farmers in the
Machakos region built small dams and water retention ponds on the Ikiwe
River with some $70,000 in aid from people in Archbold, Ohio. The
Archbold Mennonite Church project was part of Foods Resource Bank, a
Michigan-based hunger fighting organization that connects urban
churches with rural farm groups.
(WSJ, 4/23/07, p.A1)
2006 Oct 13, Ohio Representative
Bob Ney pleaded guilty in a federal court to conspiracy and making
false statements as part of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
(AP, 10/13/06)
2006 Oct 24, Ohio executed Jeffrey
Lundgren (56), a religious cult leader, for the 1989 murder of a family
of five followers who were taken one at a time to a barn, bound and
shot to death. The youngest was a girl just 7 years old. Lundgren
argued at his trial in 1990 that he was prophet of God and therefore
not deserving of the death penalty.
(AP, 10/24/06)
2006 Nov 3, US Rep. Bob Ney,
R-Ohio, who had pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling
investigation, resigned from Congress.
(AP, 11/3/07)
2006 Nov 8, US Democrats took over
Republican–held mansions in 6 states to boast 28 of the nation’s 50
governors. In Massachusetts Deval Patrick succeeded Mit Romney; in Ohio
Ted Strickland won over Kenneth Blackwell by 24 percent; Bill Ritter
won in Colorado.
(Econ, 11/11/06, p.39)(Econ, 8/2/08, p.31)
2006 Dec 17, In Ohio a plane
crashed in a field killing Paul and Lillian Martin of Austin, Texas,
and their two children.
(AP, 12/18/06)
2006 Dec 27, Ohio’s state Supreme
Court publicly reprimanded Gov. Bob Taft for his ethics violations in
office, a black mark that will stay on his permanent record as an
attorney.
(AP, 12/27/06)
2007 Jan 19, Former Ohio Rep. Bob
Ney was sentenced to 2½ years in federal prison for
trading political favors for gifts and campaign donations from lobbyist
Jack Abramoff.
(AP, 1/19/07)
2007 Feb 7, Blowing snow and
intense cold was blamed for two more deaths, a total of 13 nationwide
since the cold settled in, and kept schools closed for a second and in
some cases a third day across much of Ohio and West Virginia.
(AP, 2/7/07)
2007 Mar 2, A charter bus carrying
a college baseball team from Ohio’s Mennonite-affiliated Bluffton
University plunged off a highway ramp in Georgia and slammed into the
pavement below, killing six people, injuring 29 and scattering sports
equipment across the road. A 7th player died from his injuries on Mar 9.
(AP, 3/2/07)(AP, 3/9/07)
2007 Mar 14, Chiquita Brands
Int’l., a Cincinnati-based banana company, agreed to pay a $25 million
fine after admitting that it paid a Colombian terrorist group (AUC) for
protection in a volatile farming region. Chiquita sold its Colombian
banana operations in June, 2004.
(SFC, 3/15/07, p.A5)
2007 May 14, Charles Y. Lazarus
(b.1914), the last of four generations to run the iconic Federated
Dept. store in Columbus, Ohio, died in Columbus.
(WSJ, 5/19/07,
p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Lazarus)
2007 May 24, Ohio death row inmate
Christopher Newton was executed by injection; it took him 16 minutes to
die, more than twice the usual amount of time, once chemicals began
flowing into his veins, which the execution team had had trouble
locating.
(AP, 5/24/08)
2007 Jun 21, Bob Evans (89),
sausage maven, died in Ohio. In 2007 his Bob Evans Farms restaurant
chain, begun in 1953, numbered 579 outlets in 18 states.
(WSJ, 6/23/07, p.A8)(AP, 6/21/08)
2007 Jun 23, In Canton, Ohio,
authorities found the body of Jessie Davis (26), who had disappeared a
week earlier. Davis was pregnant and due to deliver on July 3. Police
arrested Bobby Cutts Jr. (30), Davis’ boyfriend and the father of
Davis’ two-year-old son. Myisha Ferrel, a former classmate Bobby Cutts,
was arrested the next day in connection with the murder. In 2008 Cutts
was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to 57 years to life in
prison.
(SSFC, 6/24/07, p.A6)(SFC, 6/25/07, p.A5)(SFC,
2/16/08, p.A4)(AP, 6/23/08)
2007 Jul 5, In Cleveland, Ohio,
Terrance Hough (35), an off-duty fireman angered by a noisy Fourth of
July party, shot and killed 3 people.
(SFC, 7/6/07, p.A7)
2007 Jul 20, In Ohio an ambulance
heading to a hospital was broadsided by a car in Crane Township and 5
people were killed including 3 EMT technicians and 2 patients.
(SFC, 7/21/07, p.A3)
2007 Aug 23, Ohio’s Gov. Ted
Strickland said more than 1,000 people were flooded out of their homes
after heavy rain that swamped communities across the Midwest sent
Ohio's rivers spilling over their banks.
(AP, 8/23/07)
2007 Sep 5, In Virginia US Rep.
Paul Gillmor (68), a Republican from Ohio, was found dead in his
apartment in Arlington.
(SFC, 9/6/07, p.A7)
2007 Oct 9, American Electric
Power (AEP) of Columbus, Ohio, accused of spreading smog and acid rain
across a dozen states, agreed to pay at least $4.6 billion to cut
chemical emissions in what the government called the nation's largest
environmental settlement.
(AP, 10/9/07)
2007 Oct 10, In Cleveland, Ohio,
Asa H. Coon (14), armed with two revolvers, opened fire at the
SuccessTech Academy alternative school, wounding two students and two
teachers before fatally shooting himself. He had a history of mental
problems and was known for cursing at teachers and bickering with
students. Coon, who was white, stood out in the predominantly black
school for dressing in a Goth style, wearing a black trench coat, black
boots, a dog collar and chains.
(AP, 10/11/07)(SFC, 10/11/07, p.A6)
2007 Oct 20, In Ohio Daniel Petric
(16) shot his parents, killing his mother and wounding his
father, after they took away the Halo 3 video game from him. In
2009 a judge ruled Petric guilty of murder.
(AP,
1/13/09)(http://pysih.com/2007/10/21/daniel-petric/)
2007 Oct 21,
Paul Byrd, pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, acknowledged that
he had used human growth hormone from August 2002 to January 2005 due
to a pituitary gland issue. An investigation was pending as Major
League Baseball and the Indians said they had not been aware of Byrd’s
use of the muscle building substance.
(SFC, 10/22/07, p.A1)
2007 Nov 13, CC Sabathia won the
AL Cy Young Award to become the first Cleveland pitcher in 35 years to
earn the honor.
(AP, 11/13/08)
2007 Nov 26, Roger Lee Dillon
(22), his girlfriend, Nicole N. Boyd (24), and Dillon’s mother, Sharon
Lee Gregory (48), stole $7.4 million in cash and checks from an Ohio
armored car company. They were arrested Dec 1 in West Virginia.
(AP, 12/1/07)(SFC, 12/17/07, p.A8)
2007 Dec 1, Roger Lee Dillon (22)
and his girlfriend, Nicole N. Boyd (24), were arrested in West Virginia
for the disappearance of $7 million in cash and checks from an Ohio
armored car company. The disappearance of the money was discovered Nov
26.
(AP, 12/1/07)
2007 Dec 30, In Ohio a drunken
driver went about four miles down a highway in the wrong direction
before his pickup truck slammed into a minivan, killing a woman and
four children and injuring three others. All 8 had been visiting family
in Michigan and were returning to Maryland.
(AP, 12/31/07)
2008 Jan 24, Dennis Kucinich
(b.1946), US Congressmen for Ohio, announced that he is dropping his
long-shot bid for president.
(WSJ, 1/25/08, p.A1)
2008 Feb 7, In Portsmouth, Ohio,
William Michael Layne (56) stabbed his estranged wife in front of her
5th grade class and girl friend in an alley behind her home and then
shot himself dead in a standoff with police. Both women were in
critical condition.
(AP, 2/9/08)
2008 Mar 4, John McCain clinched
the Republican nomination. Hillary Clinton won primaries in Texas, Ohio
and Rhode Island, halting Barack Obama's winning streak. Obama won in
Vermont. Obama came away with a large share of delegates, too, in
counting that continued.
(AP, 3/5/08)
2008 Mar 8, Over 20 inches of snow
in Columbus, Ohio, eclipsed the February 1910 record of 15.3 inches. At
least 7 deaths were linked to the Midwest snowstorm.
(SFC, 3/10/08, p.A6)
2008 Mar 10, Highway and utility
crews cleared major highways in time for morning commuters following
the weekend snowstorm that buried parts of Ohio in as much as 20 inches
of snow. The storm battered a wide band from the lower Mississippi
Valley to New England.
(AP, 3/10/08)
2008 Mar 12, Howard Metzenbaum
(b.1917), self-made millionaire and former Ohio Senator (1976-1995),
died in Florida.
(SFC, 3/13/08, p.A10)
2008 Apr 5, Skybus Airlines, a
low-cost carrier based in Columbus, Ohio, shut down and filed for
bankruptcy protection, becoming the latest of the nation's airlines to
fall because of rising fuel costs and a slowing economy.
(AP, 4/5/08)(SFC, 4/8/08, p.D3)
2008 Apr 7, In Ohio 9 mortgage
lenders agreed to modify adjustable-rate mortgages for borrowers facing
foreclosure. In Pennsylvania mortgage companies and consumer advocates
opened talks to help cash-strapped homeowners avoid foreclosure. Last
week Maryland’s Gov. signed a measure creating a 150-day moratorium on
foreclosures.
(WSJ, 4/8/08, p.A4)
2008 May 14, Marc Dann (46),
Ohio’s attorney general, resigned under threat of impeachment due to an
extramarital affair with an employee.
(SFC, 5/15/08, p.A7)
2008 Jun 3, In Ohio Christopher
Paul (44), pleaded guilty to planning terrorist attacks. He was accused
of joining al-Qaida in the early 1990s and helping teach Muslim
extremists how to bomb US and european targets.
(http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVlFdiHopuka4A5g4J-eVGRq-BzgD912SEC80)
2008 Jun 25, In Cleveland, Ohio, 3
teenagers beat a homeless man to death as passers-by slowed to watch
the attack, some of which was caught on videotape. Anthony Waters (42)
suffered a lacerated spleen and broken ribs during the attack and died
at a hospital.
(AP, 6/27/08)
2008 Aug 12, It was reported that
Akron inventor Charlie Grispin, chief technical officer of PolyFlow
Corp., had developed a new process to recycle plastic and that a
demonstration plant in Akron showed how the process broke all manner of
plastics into their base chemicals.
(http://tinyurl.com/6xfw5s)(www.polyflowcorp.com/)
2008 Aug 20, Stephanie Tubbs Jones
(b.1949), Ohio’s first black congresswoman, died in Cleveland following
a brain hemorrhage. She was first elected in 1998.
(SFC, 8/21/08, p.A3)
2008 Aug 26, An Ohio jury
convicted Andrew Siemaszko, a former nuclear plant engineer, of hiding
information in 2001 about reactor corrosion at the Davis-Besse plant
along Lake Erie. Siemaszko’s attorney’s said the plant’s owner set him
up as a scapegoat because he spoke out about safety concerns.
(WSJ, 8/27/08, p.A1)
2008 Oct 14, Ohio executed Richard
Cooey (41), a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer (1986), who had
argued that his obesity made death by lethal injection inhumane.
(AP, 10/14/08)
2008 Oct 24, PNC Financial
Services Group Inc agreed to purchase ailing Ohio-based National City
Corp in a government-supported $5.6 billion deal that will create the
No. 5 U.S. bank by deposits.
(Reuters, 10/25/08)
2008 Nov 1, A gunman fatally shot
Cincinnati minister Rev. Donald Fairbanks Sr. and wounded a church
deacon just after the two men arrived at a northern Kentucky church to
attend a funeral. Frederick L. Davis, of Covington, quickly surrendered
to police and was charged with murder, first degree assault, criminal
mischief and violating an emergency protection order.
(AP, 11/2/08)
2008 Dec 31, SF ended the year
with 98 homicides. In Milwaukee, Wisc., the total number of homicides
dropped 32%, from 105 in 2007 to 71 in 2008, the lowest number since
1985. Detroit had 344 slayings, a 13% drop from the 396 in 2007;
Philadelphia's 332 killings were a 15% drop from the 392 in 2007; and
the 234 homicides in Baltimore were 17% less than the 392 the year
before. Cleveland recorded 102 homicides in 2008, down from a 13-year
high of 134 in 2007. Homicides in New York rose 5.2%, to 522 from 496
the year before. Slayings in Los Angeles were down to 376 in 2008
compared to 400 the prior year. Preliminary data in Chicago showed 508
homicides were reported in 2008, the first time the city had more than
500 murders since 2003 and about 15% more than the 442 homicides
reported in 2007. Washington, D.C., ended 2008 with 186 homicides, up
from 181 in 2007.
(SFC, 1/2/09, p.1)(AP, 1/3/09)
2009 Jan 10, A winter storm left
large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast covered in snow and freezing
rain. 10 inches of snow forced some 100 cancellations at Chicago’s
O’Hare Int’l. Airport. At least 8 inches fell on lower Michigan and
Ohio.
(SSFC, 1/11/09, p.A14)
2009 Jan 12, Minnesota officials
said lab tests had confirmed salmonella bacteria in a five pound
container of King Nut brand peanut butter. King Nut of Solon, Ohio, had
recalled the product on January 10. At least 6 people had been killed
and over 470 sickened nationwide in 43 states.
(WSJ, 1/13/09, p.A2)(SFC, 1/20/09, p.A12)
2009 Jan 28, President Barack
Obama signed requests from Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear and Arkansas
Gov. Mike Beebe for federal emergency declarations as crews worked
around the clock to resurrect power lines downed by thick ice in both
states. Since the storm began building on Jan 26, the weather has been
blamed for at least six deaths in Texas, four in Arkansas, three in
Virginia, six in Missouri, two in Oklahoma, and one each in Indiana and
Ohio.
(AP, 1/29/09)
2009 Feb 6, In Ohio Gertrude
"Trudy" Steuernagel, a Kent State University professor, died a week
after she was severely injured in a Jan 29 beating by Sky Walker (18),
her autistic son.
(AP, 2/25/09)
2009 Mar 5, In Ohio 5 people were
found killed in one of Cleveland’s most horrific shootings in
years. Davon Crawford (33), a newlywed, was suspected of killing his
wife, his sister-in-law and three young children. Crawford shot himself
in the head the next day as police confronted in a home where he was
hiding.
(AP, 3/6/09)(SFC, 3/7/09, p.A6)
2009 Mar 11, German prosecutors
said they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk (88)
with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a
guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, and will seek his extradition
from the US.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Apr 10, A US immigration
board rejected suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk's appeal
of an extradition order, paving the way for deportation to Germany to
face charges he committed atrocities.
(AFP, 4/10/09)
2009 May 12, John Demjanjuk,
retired Ohio autoworker, arrived at a German prison after 3 decades of
fighting in court. He was deported from the US to face allegations of
being an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews and others as a guard
at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp.
(AP, 5/12/09)
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