Today is Palm Sunday, March 20, the 79th day of 2005. There are 286 days left in the year. On this date in 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte enters Paris, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.

Today is Palm Sunday, March 20, the 79th day of 2005. There are 286 days left in the year. On this date in 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte enters Paris, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
In 1413, England's King Henry IV dies; he is succeeded by Henry V. In 1727, physicist, mathematician and astronomer Sir Isaac Newton dies in London. In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel about slavery, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," is first published. In 1896, U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua to protect U.S. citizens in the wake of a revolution. In 1956, union workers end a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp. In 1969, John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. In 1976, kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is convicted of armed robbery for her part in a San Francisco bank holdup. In 1985, Libby Riddles of Teller, Alaska, becomes the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race.
March 20, 1980: Steven Masters takes the stand in his own defense, telling of a loving relationship with his wife and his differences with his in-laws in the 10-week-old murder trial. In anticipation of Masters' testimony, spectators pushed, shoved and surged to get into the courtroom.
Phase Two of the $9 million Four Township Water System in Trumbull County may yet become a reality, but only in a scaled-down version.
Developer Samuel Banks Jr., whose plan to develop low- and moderate-income housing in the West Side remains in limbo, tells the Vukovich administration that he will sue Youngstown unless all of his lot replat requests are approved.
March 20, 1965: The Ohio Board of Regents approves a branch of Kent State University at East Liverpool.
I.L Feuer, who has headed the city and county relief and welfare organizations since 1935, dies of a heart attack at his home on Elm Street.
Canfield High School is presenting "My Fair Lady" at the school auditorium with Rusty Ensign, Karrie Sue Blunt and Liz Diggels in leading roles.
March 20, 1955: The Vienna Flyers come from behind to defeat Strasberg, 60-53, in the regional Class-B tournament and advance to the quarter finals in Cincinnati.
A group of 75 determined Columbiana County farmers are defying the U.S. Department of Agriculture's wheat allotment program, and have posted their land with signs reading, "Department of Agriculture employees: STAY OFF this land." They challenge the department of agriculture to sue them for access to their land so that a court can decide the constitutionality of federal farm regulations.
Sixty-two Vindicator carriers board two buses for a trip to Pittsburgh where they see "Cinerama Holiday" as a reward for their work in obtaining new subscriptions.
March 20, 1930: Eugene Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel Co., gives stockholders of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. a near ultimatum, saying its offer to buy Sheet & amp; Tube will not be revised and will not be renewed if it is voted down April 8.
Eleanor Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Cook of Hartzell Avenue, Niles, is adjudged the most beautiful undergraduate girl on the campus of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. She is a sophomore and a talented pianist.
A loaded truck of the Railway Express Agency at 551 Mahoning Ave. is driven away from the front of the Erie Express office on Commerce Street while the driver was in the office obtaining way bills. The cargo was valued at about $1,000.
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