Today is Wednesday, March 21, the 80th day of 2007. There are 285 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, March 21, the 80th day of 2007. There are 285 days left in the year. On this date in 1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany.
In 1804, the French civil code, or the "Code Napoleon" as it is later called, is adopted. In 1806, Mexican statesman Benito Juarez is born in Oaxaca. In 1907, U.S. Marines arrive in Honduras to protect American lives and interests in the wake of political violence. In 1946, the United Nations sets up temporary headquarters at Hunter College in New York. In 1957, President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan begin a four-day conference in Bermuda. In 1960, some 70 people are killed in Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fire on demonstrators. In 1965, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. begin their march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. In 1979, the Egyptian Parliament unanimously approves a peace treaty with Israel. In 1985, police in Langa, South Africa, open fire on blacks marching to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sharpeville shootings, killing at least 21 demonstrators. In 1997, President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin wrap up their summit in Helsinki, Finland, still deadlocked over NATO expansion, but able to agree on slashing nuclear weapons arsenals; a suicide bomber blows himself up in Tel Aviv, killing three Israeli women. In 2002, President Bush begins a four-day trip to Latin America; Marjorie Knoller, whose two huge dogs had mauled neighbor Diane Whipple to death in their San Francisco apartment building, is convicted in Los Angeles of second-degree murder; her husband, Robert Noel, is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. (A judge later throws out the murder conviction against Knoller, replacing it with manslaughter, but the murder conviction is reinstated by an appeals court); Alexei Yagudin wins the men's title at the World Figure Skating Championships in Nagano, Japan; former Georgia governor and U.S. Sen. Herman Talmadge dies in Hampton, Ga., at age 88.
March 21, 1982: Two series of raids in Youngstown by Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. net drugs, a packet of money and thousands of dollars in loot from burglaries.
State Rep. Joseph J. Vukovich III will introduce legislation in the Ohio General Assembly to make city council aides and assistants to mayors exempt from civil service classification.
The Community Improvement Corp. of Youngstown and Mahoning County has given some 75 existing firms or newcomers a helping hand in arranging 168 million in tax-free, low-interest loans.
March 21, 1967: Mahoning County Welfare Department's expenses for 1966 were 7.5 million, including 2.5 million for general relief, says Welfare Director James E. O'Brien.
Smooth-working burglars are in and out of the Jack Fox Men's Shop in College Plaza in Alliance, clearing the store of 500 suits valued at 40,000 in less than an hour.
Hundreds of whistling swans migrating from the south are reported at Meander Reservoir, Evans Lake and Hamilton Lake
March 21, 1957: A nationally known handwriting expert says a woman election worker at Precinct F of Youngstown's 2nd Ward wrote Xs in front of the name of Frank R. Franko on nine ballots in the November election for prosecutor.
City Council overrides Mayor Frank X. Kryzan's veto of a zone change on Salt Springs Road that will allow Passarelli Bros. to use land for storage of wrecked and towed cars.
City Council authorizes the purchase or lease of 714 new parking meters for downtown and Market Street.
March 21, 1932: Mrs. C.S. Storier, newly named president of the city Women's Christian Temperance League is a strong believer in scientific education in support of temperance and prohibition.
W.B. Kilpatrick, three-time mayor of Warren and Democratic candidate for Congress from the 19th District, calls for repeal of the 18th amendment and for state determination of liquor policy.
John DeMarko, an accomplice in the kidnapping of Jimmy DeJute of Niles, refuses to name any of the kidnappers and takes a sentence of 1-20 years in the penitentiary on a charge of concealing a kidnaping.