Today is Wednesday, March 2, the 61st day of 2005. There are 304 days left in the year. On this date in 1965, the movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The Sound of Music," starring

Today is Wednesday, March 2, the 61st day of 2005. There are 304 days left in the year. On this date in 1965, the movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The Sound of Music," starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, has its world premiere at New York's Rivoli Theater.
In 1793, the first president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, is born near Lexington, Va. In 1836, Texas declares its independence from Mexico. In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote. In 1917, Puerto Ricans are granted U.S. citizenship. In 1923, Time magazine makes its debut. In 1939, Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope; he takes the name Pius XII. In 1943, the World War II Battle of the Bismarck Sea begins. In 1955, the William Inge play "Bus Stop" opens at the Music Box Theatre in New York.
March 2, 1980: Yankee Lake, which was drained on orders of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, will be converted into a race track for go-carts or moto-cross, says its owner, because it would not make sense to spend $100,000 to rebuild the dam, when swimming brings in only $10,000 a year.
The large U.S. and foreign carmakers are apparently locked in a bitter struggle for world supremacy in the automobile market, and more foreign makers, particularly the Japanese, are coming into the United States with new assembly plants.
Former President Gerald R. Ford says that Ronald Reagan could not win the general election and cautiously invites the Republican Party to ask him to run again for president.
March 2, 1965: Construction of the 120-mile Lake Erie to Ohio River Canal is recommended by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, Ohio River Division, says Congressman Michael J. Kirwan. Endorsement of the long-awaited $1 billion project came after a restudy of its feasibility and a series of public hearings.
The Youngstown Board of Education approves a final appropriation of $14.3 million for calendar year 1965, an increase of $575,394 over the 1964 appropriation.
Felony charges of promoting a numbers game against a Boardman man and woman are dismissed by County Judge Edgar G. Diehm, who said Boardman police had not properly prepared their case and the charges.
March 2, 1955: Maj. Gen. Samuel Sturgis, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, approves making a survey of the West Branch of the Mahoning River reservoir project. The survey is expected to cost $400,000 to $600,000.
A Mahoning County Common Pleas jury finds Buddy Fares guilty of criminal libel for printing in his entertainment news sheet that there were links between numbers operators and former Police Chief Edward Allen and members of his vice squad.
President Eisenhower says that he thinks the term for House of Representative members should be increased from two years to four years.
March 2, 1930: Rabbi I.E. Philo, in his sermon at Rodef Sholem Temple, urges modification of the prohibition laws to permit the "controlled manufacture and sale of light wines and beer as an experiment equally as noble as prohibition."
The body of Dr. James Snook, former Ohio State University professor, is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery in Columbus following brief services at 5 a.m. at the family home. He had been executed at 7:09 the night before for the murder of an OSU coed.
A quart of liquor, good or bad, bonded or moonshine, is the fatal dose if taken at one time, according to data compiled by Prof. H.C. Embree when he was a senior chemist for the coroner in Chicago. Prof. Embree has joined the faculty of Youngstown College as a professor of chemistry.