Today is Monday, March 7, the 66th day of 2005. There are 299 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, March 7, the 66th day of 2005. There are 299 days left in the year. On this date in 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators is broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.
In 1849, horticulturist Luther Burbank is born in Lancaster, Mass. In 1850, in a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorses the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union. In 1875, composer Maurice Ravel is born in Cibourne, France. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his telephone. In 1911, the United States sends 20,000 troops to the Mexican border as a precaution in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation takes place, between New York and London. In 1936, Adolf Hitler orders his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact. In 1945, during World War II, U.S. forces cross the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged Ludendorff Bridge. In 1975, the Senate revises its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present. In 1981, anti-government guerrillas in Colombia execute kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent.
March 7, 1980: A suit alleging discrimination against blacks in the area of equal housing opportunities in the city is filed in U.S. District Court by Attys. John L. Breckenridge and E. Winther McCroom.
Commuter Aircraft Corp. has raised $300,000 in equity capital from Ohio residents to help carry through the plan to build a large airliner assembly plant at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.
The Ohio House Finance Committee postpones votes on a measure to use state liquor profits for loans and loan guarantees for industrial development.
March 7, 1965: The Pittsburgh based Upper Ohio Valley Association sharply criticizes an Army Corps of Engineers' report saying it is feasible to construct a canal from Lake Erie to the Ohio River.
Donna Megela, a sophomore at Youngstown University, and Gary Ross, a senior, are voted Miss and Mr. Popularity in campus elections and were honored at the 19th annual sigma alpha Epsilon Popularity Dance in the Pick-Ohio ballroom.
The push for steel and more steel is on in the mills in the Youngstown area, fourth largest steel-producing district in the nation, and the mills are operating at 85 percent of their rated capacity. That means they are turning out far more steel than they could have just 10 years earlier because of gains in productivity.
March 7, 1955: County commissioners will ask the welfare department to investigate Clarence McMullen's attempt to eject Commissioner Edward J. Gilronan from the county home when Gilronan appeared at the home and asked to look at some records.
An atomic device, probably the prototype for a nuclear weapon for an intercontinental guided missile, is detonated in the Nevada desert, producing a roar and flash that shook houses 370 miles away and lighted up the sky in seven western states.
A young motorist who drove for 42 miles on the wrong side of the Pennsylvania Turnpike at speeds up to 100 mph is killed when he crashes into a tractor trailer that had been set up as a road block near Lancaster, Pa.
March 7, 1930: Despite urgent appeals for the employed to "strike to assist in the struggle against unemployment," the business of Youngstown hums on while Communist speakers shout about inequities during a rally on Central Square.
Throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, 600 Communists are arrested during "Red Thursday" demonstrations. Three demonstrators died in Germany.
Eight foreign-born persons representing eight different nationalities are naturalized in a ceremony at the Mahoning County Courthouse, the first time a naturalization class reflected such diversity. In the group were a Greek, a Russian, a Welshman, an Italian, a Syrian, a Hungarian and a Slovak.