Today is Monday, March 21, the 80th day of 2005. There are 285 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Monday, March 21, the 80th day of 2005. There are 285 days left in the year. On this date in 1965, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. begin their march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
In 1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany. In 1790, Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as the new secretary of state. In 1804, the French civil code, or the "Code Napoleon" as it is later called, is adopted. In 1806, Mexican statesman Benito Juarez is born in Oaxaca. In 1871, journalist Henry M. Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa to locate the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone. In 1945, during World War II, Allied bombers begin four days of raids over Germany. In 1960, some 70 people are killed in Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fire on demonstrators. In 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay is emptied of its last inmates at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. In 1979, the Egyptian Parliament unanimously approves a peace treaty with Israel. In 1985, police in Langa, South Africa, open fire on blacks marching to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sharpeville shootings, killing at least 21 demonstrators. In 1995, thousands of Japanese police raid the offices of a secretive religious group, Aum Shinri Kyo, in connection with nerve-gas attacks on Tokyo subways that killed 12 people and sickened thousands.
March 21, 1980: Dr. Ethel Migra, fired as an elementary supervisor by the Warren Board of Education, must be reinstated to her job, Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Donald R. Ford rules.
Former U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney files candidacy petitions to regain his seat and will face state Sen. Harry Meshel in the Democratic primary. The incumbent, Republican Lyle Williams, has no primary opposition.
Four Republicans and four Democrats will seek the nomination for Trumbull County sheriff. Incumbent Richard Jakmas is seeking re-election.
March 21, 1965: The rush to build up steel inventories as a hedge against a possible strike in the industry continues with no let up. Executives are looking for another record month of production.
Youngstown Steel Tank Co., a division of the Hunter Corp., has acquired the old Ajax Magnethermic Co. plant in Boardman, which it will use to double the warehouse space of the adjacent Hunter Steel Service Co.
The Boardman High School Symphonic Band and the Warren Harding Concert Band win four superior ratings a piece in the Northeast Ohio Class A-1 band competition at Warren. Austintown Fitch Band receives three superior and one excellent rating.
March 21, 1955: St. Joseph Hospital's $1.1 million, four-story addition is formally dedicated by the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, bishop of the Youngstown Catholic Diocese.
Fritz Schweitzer Jr. of 1608 Fifth Ave., Youngstown College law graduate, earns the highest grade in the state in the bar examination given by the Ohio Supreme Court. He was one of six Youngstown area men who passed the exam. Lynn B. Griffith Jr., son of Appellate Court Judge Lynn B. Griffith, was among the Trumbull County men who passed.
Judith Snyder, 22, of Warren, a passenger in a car involved in a collision of three cars and a Leavittsburg school bus, dies of her injuries. Three others, none of them children on the bus, are injured.
March 21, 1930: Irene Shrader's defense lawyer claims that Pennsylvania State Patrol Corporal Brady Paul died of a wound inflicted by a fellow officer, not from shots fired by Mrs. Shrader. Atty. Thomas Dickey tells the jury his client deserves to go to jail for her misdeeds, but not to the electric chair for premeditated murder.
The first major victory in the fight over the proposed sale of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. to Bethlehem Steel Corp. is claimed by the opposition forces, led by Cyrus S. Eaton who says he has 126,000 shares held by Cleveland Cliffs Corp. committed against the merger.
Edmond L. Brown, 78, of 729 Wick Ave., for many years one of the city's leading religious lay workers and an ardent advocate of abolishment of the saloon, dies of a heart attack in Augusta, Ga.