Today is Sunday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2005. There are 293 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Sunday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2005. There are 293 days left in the year. On this date in 1781, the planet Uranus is discovered by Sir William Herschel.
In 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson begins in the U.S. Senate. In 1884, Standard Time is adopted throughout the United States. In 1925, a law goes into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of evolution. In 1933, banks begin to reopen after a "holiday" declared by President Roosevelt. In 1964, 38 residents of a Queens, N.Y., neighborhood fail to respond to the cries of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, 28, as she is being stabbed to death. In 1969, the Apollo 9 astronauts splash down, ending a mission that includes the successful testing of the Lunar Module. In 1980, Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford II announces he is stepping down. In 1980, a jury in Winamac, Ind., finds Ford Motor Co. innocent of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women riding in a Ford Pinto. In 1985, funeral services are held for Soviet leader Konstantin U. Chernenko, after which Vice President Bush meets with Chernenko's successor, Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
March 13, 1980: Miss Pauline Jones, 69, of 2333 Ohio Ave., active in civil defense and many charitable activities in Youngstown and former national president of the Wells College Alumnae, is killed in an airplane crash in New Zealand.
For the third straight year, shipments of the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. showed a greater percentage of increase than shipments of the industry as a whole, shareholders are told. Profits were $53.7 million, or $5.07 a share, on sales and other revenue of $739 million.
John A. Logan, president of Ajax Magnethermic Corp. of Warren, announces the appointment of James K. McLaughlin as director of foreign operations, and Milton W. Schaefer as manager of manufacturing.
March 13, 1965: Youngstown Thermal Corp. makes a preliminary decision to acquire Ohio Edison's North Avenue steam-heating plant, says William McMillen, vice president of Synergy Systems Management Corp., which will manage and operate the plant.
The American Civil Liberties Union will take legal action against the Jackson Milton Board of Education if the board persists in keeping so-called "objectionable books" out of the high school library. Among the banned novels are "Catcher in the Rye," "Up the Down Staircase," "Manchild in the Promised Land" and "To Sir with Love."
Librarians, maintenance workers and clerks at the Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County go on strike, closing the main library and its 18 branches. No negotiations have been scheduled.
March 13, 1955: Shoppers are joining downtown Youngstown merchants in calling for an end to the 90-day ban on parking between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Britain discloses that it disapproved of a U.S. suggestion to publish the record of the 1945 Yalta conference attended by President Franklin Roosevelt, Premier Joseph Stalin and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Mizell Ewing, Youngstown tenor recently returned from three years' study in Paris, will sing at the Noon Club meet in Trinity Methodist Church. He studied at the Dana School of Music and received a bachelor degree from the Boston Conservatory of Music before completing voice and phonetic training at the Paris National Conservatory and the Sorbonne.
March 13, 1930: Proponents of the merger of Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., which include Sheet & amp; Tube's chairman, James A. Campbell, see the new company as a rival to U.S. Steel Corp., the nation's largest producer. Meanwhile, dissident Sheet & amp; Tube shareholders are gathering behind Cleveland industrialist Cyrus Eaton, who says the merger is contrary to the interests of shareholders.
Republic Steel Corp. is absorbing Gulf States Steel Co. of Birmingham, Ala., adding another unit to Cyrus Eaton's already great holdings and giving Republic a total of $300 million in assets.
Irene Shrader and Glenn Dague are positively identified by several witnesses as the couple that held up a store in Butler on the morning that Pennsylvania State Police corporal, Brady Paul, was killed by fugitive bandits. The trial in New Castle is in its second day.