Today is Thursday, March 17, the 76th day of 2005. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick's Day. On this date in A.D. 461, according to tradition, St. Patrick -- the patron saint of

Today is Thursday, March 17, the 76th day of 2005. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick's Day. On this date in A.D. 461, according to tradition, St. Patrick -- the patron saint of Ireland -- dies in Saul.
In 1776, British forces evacuate Boston during the Revolutionary War. In 1905, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin Delano Roosevelt in New York. In 1910, the Camp Fire Girls organization is formed. It is formally presented to the public on this day two years later. In 1941, the National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C. In 1942, Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater during World War II. In 1958, the U.S. Navy launches the Vanguard 1 satellite. In 1966, a U.S. midget submarine locates a missing hydrogen bomb which had fallen from an American bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain. In 1969, Golda Meir becomes prime minister of Israel. In 1992, 28 people are killed in the truck bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
March 17, 1980: Steel workers, the Ecumenical Coalition of the Mahoning Valley and Congressman Lyle Williams unveil their proposal for purchasing the McDonald Mills and Ohio Works of U. S. Steel Corp. They say an unnamed local company is interested in investing.
The Valley of Youngstown's 76th annual reunion comes to a close with 96 candidates receiving Freemasonry's 32nd degree. Walter H. Kropp, a member of the Scottish Rite Supreme Council and state deputy for Ohio, addressed the class.
The Economic Development Administration approves a $10 million fixed asset loan and $4 million in working capital for Youngstown Steel Corp., which would be located in CASTLO, in the former Struthers Works of the Jones & amp; Laughlin Steel Corp.
March 17, 1965: The U.S. House passes a far-reaching bill designed to end gerrymandering and equalize congressional districts. Districts must be as compact as possible and each must be within 15 percent of the state average.
Stanley E. Babcock of 23 Beechwood Drive is named assistant plant industrial engineer at U.S. Steel's Youngstown Works by Ralph Dickson, general superintendent.
March 17, 1955: More than $9,000 is raised by The Vindicator and the Pittsburgh Courier to provide for construction of a new room on the home of the Rev. and Mrs. Maxwell Foster for their daughter, Laquetta, who requires oxygen to survive. The money will also help pay for the tanks of oxygen the little girl needs.
Westinghouse Electric Corp. will give $6,000 over the next four years to Youngstown College for operating expenses. The company will also provide two $500 scholarships annually for science students and will continue to give employees who are attending the college -- now numbering more than 80 -- full tuition rebates if they graduate.
March 17, 1930: The proposed Bethlehem Steel-Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. merger would be a $1 billion deal, Bethlehem reveals. Total assets of Bethlehem are $801 million; Sheet & amp; Tube lists assets of $235 million.
A total of 2,100 unemployed men and women in Youngstown register at the 41 schools in the city, where volunteer workers tabulated a list to relieve the local unemployment situation. The registration was not as large as that started during the 1921 depression, says H. R. Weller, superintendent of the State-City Employment Bureau.
Glenn Dague and Irene Shrader pass Sunday in the Lawrence County jail with Dague serenading Mrs. Shrader from his cell to the women's tier above. "I can hear you, sweetheart, sing some more," she could be heard replying to the love songs he rendered in a pleasing tenor. Their murder trial resumes Monday.