Today is Tuesday, March 1, the 60th day of 2005. There are 305 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, March 1, the 60th day of 2005. There are 305 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, President Roosevelt, back from the Yalta Conference, proclaims the meeting a success as he addresses a joint session of Congress.
In 1781, the Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation. In 1790, Congress authorizes the first U.S. Census. In 1864, Rebecca Lee becomes the first black woman to receive an American medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston. In 1867, Nebraska becomes the 37th state. In 1872, Congress authorizes creation of Yellowstone National Park. In 1904, bandleader Glenn Miller is born in Clarinda, Iowa. In 1932, 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. (Remains identified as those of the child are found the following May.) In 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists open fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen. In 1981, Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he dies 65 days later.
March 1, 1980: The Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce recommends that the Ohio General Assembly enact legislation to boost the state gasoline tax to raise funds for repair and reconstruction of state-controlled roads and bridges.
U.S. Steel Corp. appeals to the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati to overturn a court order that forces the company to keep two Youngstown Works mills open until March 17. U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Lambros ordered that the mills be kept open until that day, when a hearing will be held on a suit brought by steelworkers who want to buy the plants.
A Struthers police cruiser speeding to the scene of a marital dispute in neighboring Poland Township is involved in a collision on Clingan Road that sends a Portersville, Pa., couple to South Side Hospital.
March 1, 1965: Local mills are being pushed hard to fill orders, which Steel magazine says are coming in as steel users attempt to build their inventories to 60 or 90 day levels, in case there is a steel strike.
Mahoning County's first half 1964 real estate tax collection brings in $6.8 million, about 50 percent of the total charge, with the deadline for collection only a week away.
A sneak thief breaks into the choir room of St. Paul's United Church of Christ, 2105 Oak Hill Ave., and escapes with about $120 in cash, car keys, charge plates and other items belonging to seven choir members. The Rev. Dr. D.A. Bode was preaching a pre-Lenten sermon while the theft was taking place.
March 1, 1955: A tornado dips into Thorn Hill Village on Youngstown's East Side, killing Mrs. Mary Falat of 1367 Park Vista Ave. and leveling five homes. At least six persons are injured and Fire Chief John Lynch estimates the monetary loss at $200,000.
All together, 32 homes were destroyed and on a farm east of Thorn Hill eight cows were killed and a farmhouse and barn leveled.
Democratic Gov. Frank J. Lausche submits a record $931 million two-year budget to the General Assembly.
Senate Republicans in Washington say a House-passed bill to give every taxpayer a $20 cut in the federal income tax is dead. Seven Republicans in the Senate Finance Committee are firmly opposed to the cut and they have been joined by Sen. Walter George, D-Ga.
March 1, 1930: Characterizing charges brought by Youngstown coal dealers against Traffic Commissioner Carl Olson as "malicious and scurrilous," Atty. A. M. Henderson, counsel for Olson, flays the witnesses at a hearing before Police Chief Paul Lyden for "attempting to introduce hearsay evidence."
Louis Muche, 43, former Niles police officer, is brutally beaten in his soft drink place at 217 Langley St.
Dr. James Snook, professor, paramour and murderer of an Ohio State University medical student, Theora Hix, goes quietly to his death in Ohio's electric chair.
Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, former governor of Wyoming, tells 100 Washington D.C. social leaders that U.S. women become more active in politics. She notes that in Engaland, 68 women stood for the House of Commons in the most recent election and 13 were elected.