Today is Tuesday, March 20, the 79th day of 2007. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring arrives at 8:07 p.m. EDT. On this date in 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returns to Paris after escaping his

Today is Tuesday, March 20, the 79th day of 2007. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring arrives at 8:07 p.m. EDT. On this date in 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returns to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
In 1413, England's King Henry IV dies; he is succeeded by Henry V. In 1727, physicist, mathematician and astronomer Sir Isaac Newton dies in London. In 1828, poet-dramatist Henrik Ibsen is born in Skien, Norway. In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel about slavery, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," is first published. In 1956, union workers end a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp. In 1969, John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. In 1977, voters in Paris choose former French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac to be the French capital's first mayor in more than a century. In 1985, Libby Riddles of Teller, Alaska, becomes the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race. In 1987, the Food and Drug Administration approves the sale of AZT, a drug shown to prolong the lives of some AIDS patients.
March 20, 1982: The Youngstown Cartage Co., a major hauler of steel products, will shut down operations March 31, putting 550 employees in 20 states, including 250 in Youngstown, out of work.
The Packard Electric Division of General Motors in Warren will further reduce its salaried workforce, laying off about 100 in addition to 200 that have already been furloughed.
A 5.9 percent drop in sales in he last year was the final nail in the coffin of the downtown Youngstown Woolworth's store, which company officials say has shown a profit in only four or five of the last 30 years.
March 20, 1967: The Upper Ohio Valley Association, headquartered in Cleveland, takes out a full page ad in The Vindicator warning residents of Warren that a Lake Erie-to-Ohio River canal would cut a swath through downtown Warren and remove 140 acres from the city's tax duplicate.
James G. Hyre, a former Woodrow Wilson High School and DePauw University football player, is named head coach of the Brookfield High School Warriors.
A conscience-stricken thief breaks into St. Joseph Church to return a canvas bag containing collection money that was stolen Sunday morning. The bag contained about 200.
March 20, 1957: The Standard Slag Co. asks Boardman Township trustees for a zone change on property at Market Street and Ridgewood Drive to permit construction of a 300,000 office building.
Mayor Frank X. Kryzan and other city and county officials ask Gov. C. William O'Neill to included 15.6 million worth of Youngstown expressways in the state's two-year highway budget.
Snow flurries and tumbling temperatures sweep through Youngstown for the last blast of winter.
March 20, 1932: With a grade of 316 out of a possible 400, Carmen Ciolli of East High School in Youngstown takes first place in the all-Mahoning County George Washington Bicentennial scholarship contest at South High auditorium.
Ohio ginseng hunters say the Japanese are muscling on the Shanghai market, driving prices from 11 and 15 per pounds to 2 to 5 per pound.
The German Societies of Youngstown present a musical tribute to mark the centennial of the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at Central Auditorium.