Today is Wednesday, March 15, the 74th day of 2006. There are 291 days left in the year. This is the

Today is Wednesday, March 15, the 74th day of 2006. There are 291 days left in the year. This is the Ides of March -- and the day the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio. On this date in 1956, the Lerner and Loewe musical play "My Fair Lady," starring Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins and Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle, opens on Broadway.
In 44 B.C., Roman dictator Julius Caesar is assassinated by a group of nobles that includes Brutus and Cassius. In 1493, Christopher Columbus returns to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere. In 1767, the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, is born in Waxhaw, S.C. In 1820, Maine becomes the 23rd state. In 1913, President Wilson holds the first open presidential news conference. In 1944, during World War II, Allied bombers again raid German-held Monte Cassino. In 1964, actress Elizabeth Taylor marries actor Richard Burton in Montreal; it is her fifth marriage, his second.
March 15, 1981: William H. Kirwan, former U.S. Steel general superintendent, says President Ronald Reagan's economic programs might have saved the U.S. Steel Youngstown District Works and averted a lot of economic agony for the Youngstown area.
The General Service Administration recommends a federal office building for downtown Youngstown costing $8 million to $10 million.
The Rev. Donald E. Lefelar, pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Niles, says he has been shocked by the amount of alcohol and drug use he has encountered in his ministry among teenagers.
March 15, 1966: Herbert Phil-brick, who led a dangerous double life for nine years as a Communist Party worker and FBI undercover agent, tells a group of 1,500 persons at Stambaugh Auditorium that the United States must draw the line against Communist aggression in Vietnam or face the red threat later, perhaps in this country.
Gov. James A. Rhodes grants parole to Thomas "Tony" Viola, 52, serving life sentences for two Warren gangland slayings, because he has lung cancer and has been given 60 to 90 days to live. He was convicted in 1946 of killing steakhouse owner Jim Munsene and his nephew, Felix Monfrino.
Jeffrey Cox, 6, of Poland is attacked and injured by a German shepherd dog at his grandfather's Canfield home. Fifty stitches were required to close wounds over his body.
March 15, 1956: Arthur T. Williams, 41, of Lake Milton, is killed when his car rammed the side of a locomotive on the Erie Railroad 's Route 18 crossing at West Austintown.
Dr. William M. Skipp, 82, of Canfield, a thyroid surgeon who won a distinguished reputation in research and in public affairs, dies of pneumonia in South Side Hospital after an illness of two weeks.
Registration is increasing at the Mahoning County Board of Elections, but still is off about 1,500 from this point before the presidential election in 1952.
A hidden cache of 32 slot machines and some 300 punchboards representing a potential of a million dollars a year in gambling revenue is uncovered in a garage near New Castle. Police say the devices are owned by Joe Augustine of Youngstown.
March 15, 1931: Youngstown Vice Squad Chief William J. Engelhardt gives bootleggers one day to quit business, announcing that his 20 raiders will hit Youngstown's streets at 9 a.m. Monday.
Youngstown police are attempting to stem an epidemic of robberies with six on Friday night, followed by seven on Saturday night.
Henry Ford says these are good times, even if few know it, and predicts that a lowering of high prices and the re-election of President Hoover will restore prosperity.
Youngstown Superintendent J.J. Richeson says it is unlikely any new teachers will be hired for city schools since 48 will have to resign or retire to save a portion of the $500,000 that must be cut from the school budget.