Today is Thursday, March 10, the 69th day of 2005. There are 296 days left in the year. On this date in 1876, the first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell's telephone takes place

Today is Thursday, March 10, the 69th day of 2005. There are 296 days left in the year. On this date in 1876, the first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell's telephone takes place in Boston as his assistant hears Bell say, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you."
In 1629, England's King Charles I dissolves Parliament; he does not call it back for 11 years. In 1785, Thomas Jefferson is appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin. In 1848, the Senate ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico. In 1864, Ulysses S. Grant becomes commander of the Union armies in the Civil War. In 1880, the Salvation Army arrives in the United States from England. In 1949, Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," is convicted in Washington, D.C., of treason. (She served 12 years in prison.) In 1965, Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney, opens on Broadway. In 1969, James Earl Ray pleads guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (Ray later repudiates that plea, maintaining his innocence until his death.) In 1980, "Scarsdale Diet" author Dr. Herman Tarnower is shot to death in Purchase, N.Y. (Jean Harris, convicted of murder, serves nearly 12 years in prison before being released in January 1993.) In 1985, Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months, dies at age 73.
March 10, 1980: A Union Township school bus about to make its first stop skids into a pole on English Avenue in New Castle, knocking down electrical wires and disrupting service.
Tabernacle United Presbyterian Church unanimously votes to withdraw from the United Presbyterian Church of the United States and dissolve its relationship with the Eastminster Presbytery at a meeting of the congregation.
U.S. Sen. John Glenn announces that he will seek a second six-year term in the U.S. Senate. The primary challenges facing the nation are jobs, inflation, the energy crisis and relations with the Soviet Union, he says.
March 10, 1965: Atty. F. Rollin Hahn, for many years one of the most prominent members of the Mahoning County Bar, dies at his home at 1737 E. Midlothian Ave. at the age of 94.
Youngstown City Council approves the installation of high intensity lighting in the downtown and Uptown shopping districts at a cost of $38,000.
John McElroy of Youngstown North High School, a powerhouse for the Bulldogs all season, is named to the Northeast District's Class AA First Team All Stars.
March 10, 1955: Downtown merchants say the parking ban between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. that was designed to speed rush hour traffic is costing them thousands of dollars in business.
Three Air Force pilots in Thunder Streak jet fighters span the nation in less than four hours, flying from Long Island to Los Angeles in 3 hours 46 minutes; 3 hours 47 minutes and 3 hours 49 minutes.
Violators of the downtown rush-hour parking ban who have had tickets "fixed" by Municipal Judge Frank R. Franko face arrest and prosecution, say Mayor Frank X. Kryzan and Police Chief Paul Cress.
March 10, 1930: The headquarters of the new Republic Steel Corp. will be located in Youngstown, says E.T. McCleary, slated to be president of the new company, after consultation with the most powerful interests in the company.
The prospect of the B & amp;O Railroad Co. building a $1.5 million terminal in Youngstown is dimmed when Daniel Willard, B & amp;O president, tells Mayor Joseph Heffernan that no promise to build such a terminal was ever made.
Youngstown coal dealers will ask for a law prohibiting participation in competitive business by public officials, says Roy F. Brandon of Brandon Coal, who was active in bringing charges of malfeasance against traffic commissioner Carl Olson. Police Chief Paul Lyden cleared Olson, but the coal dealers believe Olson's business profited by virtue of his public position.
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