Today is Easter Sunday, March 27, the 86th day of 2005. There are 279 days left in the year. On this date in 1977, 582 people are killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off, crashes into a

Today is Easter Sunday, March 27, the 86th day of 2005. There are 279 days left in the year. On this date in 1977, 582 people are killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off, crashes into a Pan Am 747 on the Canary Island of Tenerife.
In 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Florida. In 1625, Charles I ascends the English throne upon the death of James I. In 1794, President Washington and Congress authorize creation of the U.S. Navy. In 1836, the first Mormon temple is dedicated, in Kirtland, Ohio. In 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. team to win the Stanley Cup as they defeat the Montreal Canadiens. In 1958, Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party. In 1964, Alaska is rocked by a powerful earthquake that kills 114 people. In 1968, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the earth, dies in a plane crash. In 1980, 137 workers die when a North Sea floating oil field platform, the "Alexander I. Keilland," capsizes during a storm. In 1998, the Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-impotence drug Viagra, made by Pfizer.
March 27, 1980: Two men are shot and wounded by Youngstown police after being flushed from the home of a Hiram Street woman who was overpowered and beaten before being robbed of a stained glass window and $480 in cash.
All-American wide receiver Jim Ferranti of Youngstown State University is honored as the Vestibule Club's Man of the Year and Penguin coach Bill Narduzzi is honored for leading the team to the runner-up slot in the NCAA Division II playoffs.
The Youngstown-Warren metropolitan area will experience one of the 10 worst rates of growth in jobs and personal income in the country during the 1980s, Chase Econometrics predicts.
March 27, 1965: The addition of another open hearth at the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. will boost Youngstown's basic steel production to better than 85 percent of capacity.
The Dana School of Music Opera Workshop presents "Rita," a one-act comic opera by Donizetti in C.J. Strouss Auditorium. Sally Ann Crespy appears in the title role.
Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes calls for federal and state action against pollution in the Great Lakes. He invites Anthony J. Celebrezze, secretary of health, education and welfare, to meet with governors of the seven Great Lakes states in Cleveland.
March 27, 1955: A massive snow storm and record cold throttles spring in much of the eastern United States. At least 20 persons are dead. In Chardon, the parade at the annual Geauga County Maple Festival is canceled.
Three Vindicator reporters find the parking lot at the Old Dutch Inn on Route 224 east of Poland full, but only a few people in the tavern. Most of the patrons apparently gravitated to Bendel's garage nearby, a reputed gambling den, but the reporters couldn't get inside and all the windows were blacked out.
Army Corps of Engineers helicopters drop dynamite on the ice-jammed lower Niagara River, but two 25-pound charges fail to have any effect on the thick mass of ice that has formed.
March 27, 1930: Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton says he and other opponents of the merger of Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Corp. have 412,571 shares of Sheet & amp; Tube stock, which is enough to block the merger. He tells a meeting of Youngstown businessmen that Sheet & amp; Tube would have to have all of the other 770,000 shares of stock and recapture nearly 20,000 shares that he represents to get the two-thirds needed to approve a merger.
The assessed valuation of all real and personal property in Mahoning County increases approximately $2.5 million from 1928 to 1929. The total value of real and personal property outside the cities and villages is $61.6 million; inside the cities and villages, $455.4 million.
Dr. Stanley Sidenberg and a custodian, William F. Hahn, are shocked by electricity while working on an X-ray machine in Molly Stark Hospital in Canton when a fuse on the apparatus blew out. They were not seriously hurt, officials said, but reporters were kept from the scene.
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