Today is Friday, March 11, the 70th day of 2005. There are 295 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Friday, March 11, the 70th day of 2005. There are 295 days left in the year. On this date in 1942, as Japanese forces continue to advance in the Pacific during World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur leaves the Philippines for Australia, vowing: "I shall return." (He keeps that promise nearly three years later.)
In 1861, the Confederate convention in Montgomery, Ala., adopts a constitution. In 1888, the famous "Blizzard of '88" strikes the northeastern United States, resulting in some 400 deaths. In 1930, former President and Chief Justice Taft is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. In 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt signs into law the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis. In 1959, the Lorraine Hansberry drama "A Raisin in the Sun" opens at New York's Ethel Barrymore Theater. In 1965, the Rev. James J. Reeb, a white minister from Boston, dies after being beaten by whites during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Ala. In 1965, "I Lost It at the Movies," a collection of film criticism by Pauline Kael, is first published by Little, Brown and Co. In 1977, more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are freed after ambassadors from three Islamic nations joined the negotiations.
March 11, 1980: The America flag that was published in The Vindicator has been posted in all but three outside windows and many inside doors in New Castle City Hall. On instructions from Mayor Angelo Sands, every extra copy of The Vindicator that could be rounded up was obtained for the display.
The Trumbull County Community Improvement Corporation recommends that county commissioners approve the issuance of $10 million in industrial development revenue bonds on behalf of the Commuter Aircraft Corp.
Police are holding a 23-year-old Leavittsburg man in the apparent kidnapping, robbery and beating death of an unidentified man nicknamed "Oklahoma," whose battered body was found in a field off Route 534 in Newton Township.
March 11, 1965: The Ohio Supreme Court upholds the sentencing of an Akron man to 1-3 years in prison for his second conviction on a charge of possessing "numbers game" tickets.
Harold Booher, 53, of Como Street, Struthers, president of the Struthers Board of Education, is found dead at his service station, pinned to the floor under the wheel of a truck.
March 11, 1955: A tornado sweeps over Columbiana County south of Salem leveling hundreds of trees, cutting power and telephone lines and leveling barns and out buildings.
Mayor Frank X. Kryzan announces that the United States Air Force and Defense Department have refused to alter the lease with the city for use of the Youngstown Municipal Airport.
Sir Alexander Fleming, 73, the Scottish scientist who discovered penicillin, dies of heart disease at his home. He always contended that the discovery that made him famous was "pure luck."
March 11, 1930: Leading stockholders of the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. say the votes of more than 500,000 shares of stock are opposed to a merger with Bethlehem Steel Corp.
Ignoring the world outcry against Communists for their attitude toward the church, Soviet atheist officials are formulating an intense assault upon God and religion, which will be launched as Easter approaches.
Youngstown Schools Superintendent J. J. Richeson says he will allow school buildings to be used on Saturdays by the State-City Employment Bureau to register the unemployed, but not when classes are in session.