Today is Saturday, April 28, the 118th day of 2018. There are 247 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1925: The International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts, which would give rise to the term “Art Deco,” begins a six-month run in Paris.
1945: Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are executed by Italian partisans as they attempt to flee the country.
1967: Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali is stripped of his title after he refuses to be inducted into the armed forces.
1993: The first “Take Our Daughters to Work Day,” promoted by the New York-based Ms. Foundation, is held in an attempt to boost the self-esteem of girls by having them visit a parent’s place of work. (The event was later expanded to include sons.)
2008: The first tax rebates were direct-deposited into bank accounts from a $168 billion stimulus package passed by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush.
2017: President Donald Trump reaffirms his support for gun rights, telling attendees of a National Rifle Association convention in Atlanta that “the eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end.”
VINDICATOR FILES
1993: United Steelworkers Union officials want Sharon Steel Corp. to declare that its Farrell plant is formally closed so that 700 workers can qualify for early pensions.
Some workers at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors in Warren file a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration alleging that a plastic coating applied to copper wires poses “several immediate health hazards” to 340 workers at the North River Road Plant 10.
After a 35-year-old woman is stabbed
