Today is Tuesday, March 7, the 66th day of 2006. There are 299 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, March 7, the 66th day of 2006. There are 299 days left in the year. On this date in 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators is broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.
In 1849, horticulturist Luther Burbank is born in Lancaster, Mass. In 1850, in a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster endorses the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union. In 1875, composer Maurice Ravel is born in Cibourne, France. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his telephone. In 1911, the United States sends 20,000 troops to the Mexican border as a precaution in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation takes place, between New York and London. In 1936, Adolf Hitler orders his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact. In 1945, during World War II, U.S. forces cross the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge. In 1975, the Senate revises its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present. In 1981, anti-government guerrillas in Colombia execute kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman, whom they accuse of being a CIA agent.
March 7, 1981: Roland Fabrizio Jr. is elected by Youngstown Democratic Central Committeemen as the city's 6th Ward councilman, talking the seat of Robert Spencer, who resigned.
An $8.4 million coal fraud suit is filed in Lawrence County Court by the Pennsylvania Power Co. against Peter A. Vessella and Albert A. Jerome.
A lawyer for striking Youngstown teachers begins developing a defense in court based on the premise that the Board of Education was unjustly selective in deciding whom to charge with contempt of court.
March 7, 1966: The Wean Engineering Co. of Warren is offering to purchase 70,000 shares of McKay Machine Co. stock at $55 a share, making it a $3.8 million transaction, exclusive of brokerage fees.
The Rev. James Thomas, 55, associate minister of First Presbyterian Church and widely known in Ohio church affairs, dies of a heart attack after being stricken while teaching a Sunday school class.
City Engineer J. Phillip Richley withdraws his resignation two weeks after submitting it and says he will continue in the $15,360-a-year job.
March 7, 1956: Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. announces an expansion plan which will involve spending $250 million over three years and will add 1 million tons of capacity, including 400,000 tons in the Youngstown District.
The January term of the Mahoning County grand jury, meeting in special session, indicts five men, including two Youngstown police officers, of having an improper relationship with a 15-year old South Side girl.
Ford Motor Co. common stock sells on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time, trading at $62 a share.
March 7, 1931: Youngstown district steel operating schedules increase with Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. showing a 5 percent boost in operations.
Youngstown Mayor Joseph L. Heffernan says it is embarrassing that Sheriff Adam Stone and his deputies have been uncovering bootleggers in the city and that he intends to ask Police Chief Paul Lyden for an explanation.
Youngstown Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled Veterans organizations say they are handling soldiers bonus work at the courthouse and a W. Federal St. storefront, but they warn veterans against having storekeepers fill out their claims for them.