Today is Thursday, March 2, the 61st day of 2006. There are 304 days left in the year. On this date in 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election

Today is Thursday, March 2, the 61st day of 2006. There are 304 days left in the year. On this date in 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.
In 1793, the first president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, is born near Lexington, Va. In 1836, Texas declares its independence from Mexico. In 1899, Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state is established. In 1917, Puerto Ricans is granted U.S. citizenship. In 1923, Time magazine makes its debut. In 1939, Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope; he takes the name Pius XII. In 1943, the World War II Battle of the Bismarck Sea begins. In 1955, the William Inge play "Bus Stop" opens at the Music Box Theatre in New York. In 1965, the movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The Sound of Music" has its world premiere at New York's Rivoli Theater.
March 2, 1981: Wanda Grant pours in 26 points and pulls down 17 rebounds to lead the Youngstown State University women's basketball team to a 62-54 victory over Davis Elkins College in the season finale at Beeghly Center.
The Ravenna Board of Education votes at a special 7 a.m. meeting to put a 6.9-mill levy on the June primary ballot in an effort to give striking teachers a pay raise.
Speaking to the National League of Cities, President Ronald Reagan says that selfish special interests are opposing his economic policies and are threatening the nation's economic recovery.
March 2, 1966: Hills Department Store holds a grand opening for its fourth Youngstown area store. Edwin Gantman is the manager of the Liberty Plaza Hills, which is the largest store in the plaza.
After an 11-month study, a subcommittee of the Mayor's Human Relations Committee reports that no racial discrimination is being practiced in Youngstown's six area hospitals.
The original town clerk's record book of the Village of Youngstown, organized in 1802 with entries by George Tod, is part of the B.F. Wirt collection now being housed at the Arms Museum, James. L. Wick announces.
March 2, 1956: Youngstown's new Catholic high school, which will open in September, has been named Cardinal Mooney High School after Youngstown's most distinguished Catholic churchman, Cardinal Edward A. Mooney, archbishop of Detroit.
The new half-million-dollar downtown Youngstown fire station is dedicated as a band plays patriotic airs and small boys inspect brightly polished fire equipment during an open house.
With an extra penny-per-pack tax on cigarettes due to go into effect, Youngstown area retailers are raising prices to $2.04 per carton for regular; $2.13 for king size and $2.23 for long filter tips. Single pack prices will be 21 cents for regular, 22 cents for king size and 23 cents for filter tips.
March 2, 1931: Shopkeeper T.R. Phillips resists two robbers who enter his store at 1741 Glenwood Ave., telling them, "Don't get fresh. Put your guns down." One of the robbers shoots Phillips in the hand, then herds him and three young customers into the cooler, before escaping with a small amount of cash.
The Senate food price investigation committee recommends "careful scrutiny" by the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department of "an alarming tendency toward monopolistic control" of the nation's food supply by a small group of powerful corporations and combines. Probers say bread, milk and meat costs are too high.
In a letter to Gov. G.C. White, five Mahoning County judges renew their call for a state investigation of the utility situation in Youngstown, saying that county Prosecutor Thomas cannot conduct the investigation because it touches the prosecutor himself.
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