Today is Thursday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2006. There are 283 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2006. There are 283 days left in the year. On this date in 1775, Patrick Henry makes his famous call for American independence from Britain, telling the Virginia Provincial Convention, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
In 1792, Joseph Haydn's "Symphony No. 94 in G Major" (the "Surprise" symphony) is performed publicly for the first time in London. In 1806, explorers Lewis and Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, begin their journey back east. In 1919, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy. In 1933, the German Reichstag adopts the Enabling Act, which effectively grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers. In 1942, during World War II, the U.S. government begins evacuating Japanese-Americans from their West Coast homes to detention centers. In 1956, Pakistan becomes an independent republic within the British Commonwealth. In 1965, America's first two-person space flight begins as Gemini 3 blasts off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard. In 1983, President Reagan first proposes developing technology to intercept enemy missiles -- a proposal that comes to be known as "Star Wars." In 1983, Dr. Barney Clark, recipient of a permanent artificial heart, dies at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112 days with the device. In 2003, a U.S. Army maintenance convoy is ambushed in Iraq; 11 soldiers are killed, seven are captured, including Pvt. 1st Class Jessica Lynch, who is rescued on April 1.
March 23, 1981: The Supreme Court of the United States decides to hear a case arguing that Amish employers and employees should not be required to pay Social Security and federal unemployment taxes.
The Supreme Court upholds a Utah law that requires a doctor to notify "if possible" the parents of a minor seeking an abortion.
Youngstown Public Schools will reopen without many of its teachers after the Youngstown Education Association rejects an offer of a 1 percent pay increase.
The Ohio Department of Administrative Services in Columbus will rule on whether the Mahoning County sanitary engineer's office can provide eye and dental care coverage to its employees if other county employees do not receive the same benefit.
March 23, 1966: Cash prizes to small areas of Youngstown showing the greatest neighborhood improvement will be offered by the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce in a new activity -- Project Enterprise.
Plans for a $20 million Community College on a 220-acre site at Starrs Corners on Route 224 are regarded as a costly duplication at the expense of Mahoning County taxpayers, says Dr. Howard Jones, president of Youngstown University.
Mercer County is experiencing an employment boom, with the February unemployment rate at the lowest point in at least 15 years.
March 23, 1956: Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. begins preparing to shut down more Campbell Works finishing units, idling thousands of workers as steel supplies are exhausted by the walkout of 50 open hearth workers.
Sheriff Paul J. Langley declares war on teen-age hot rodders to prevent further racing fatalities.
Independent drives for national health agencies can raise more money on their own, than in being part of a united fund, say Mahoning County representatives of the American Cancer Society, the Heart Association and the Community Chest.
March 23, 1931:Nearly all of Austintown turns out to greet its high school basketball team on its return from Columbus, where the team won the state Class B championship.
New financing in the form of a $25 million issue of first mortgage 8 percent bonds will be undertaken for Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. by a group headed by the Bankers Co.
Chester C. Isaly, 44, of 115 W. LaClede Ave., treasurer and manager of the Isaly Dairy Co., commits suicide by shooting himself in the Isaly Dairy plant on Mahoning Avenue. His act was attributed to Ill health.