Today is Thursday, March 22, the 81st day of 2007. There are 284 days left in the year. On this date in 1765, Britain enacts the Stamp Act of 1765 to raise money from the American colonies. (The Act

Today is Thursday, March 22, the 81st day of 2007. There are 284 days left in the year. On this date in 1765, Britain enacts the Stamp Act of 1765 to raise money from the American colonies. (The Act is repealed the following year.)
In 1638, religious dissident Anne Hutchinson is expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for defying Puritan orthodoxy. In 1820, U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur is killed in a duel with Commodore James Barron near Washington, D.C. In 1882, Congress outlaws polygamy. In 1933, during Prohibition, President Roosevelt signs a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal. In 1941, the Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state goes into operation. In 1945, the Arab League is formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt. In 1946, the British mandate in Transjordan comes to an end. In 1972, Congress sends the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. (It falls three states short of the 38 needed for approval.) In 1978, Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act, falls to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1987, a garbage barge, carrying 3,200 tons of refuse, leaves Islip, N.Y., on a six-month journey in search of a place to unload. (The barge is turned away by several states and three other countries until space is found back in Islip.) In 1997, a day after a suicide bomber killed three women in Tel Aviv, Israeli troops clash with hundreds of Palestinians in Hebron; Tara Lipinski, at age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest women's world figure skating champion.
March 22, 1982: Marlin D. "Whitey" Ford, president of UAW Local 1112 at Lordstown, says the tentative agreement reached between General Motors and the union is better than the pact recently reached at Ford.
Thorofare Markets will close 16 stores in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The Salem store is spared, at least temporarily.
Almost half of the 85 workers in the Mahoning County Welfare Department's social services office will be laid off April 16.
March 22, 1967: The Brookfield Federation of Teachers goes on strike, closing the township's five schools.
U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown announces that as long as he enjoys good health he intends to stay in Congress. He says a statement he made about his future intentions during a meeting with Ohio bankers was misinterpreted.
Dr. Martin Essex, state superintendent of public instruction, rules that Youngstown schools do not have to make up three strike days from November, averting a showdown between the school district and the teachers union over pay for the extra days, which could have cost the district 180,000.
March 22, 1957: The Youngstown Hospital Association School of Nursing says it would be willing to accept student nurses from Salem City Hospital, which is closing its nursing school.
A citizens committee is being organized to block the industrial B zoning for Passarelli Bros. Automotive Service on Salt Spring Road and will appeal to Mayor Frank X. Kryzan to take away Passarelli's police towing work.
Bertram G. Parker II, president of Jawpco, a Junior Achievement firm, wins the finals of the Junior Achievement sales contest before judges from the Mahoning Valley Sales Executive Club at Hotel Pick-Ohio.
March 22, 1932: A Transcontinental Western Airways mail-passenger plane crashes into the Ohio River near Steubenville. The body of the pilot, Hal George, 31, of Columbus, is recovered, but the passenger, Dr. Carol S. Cole of St. Louis, is missing.
Work for the unemployed in extending water lines and erecting standpipes and booster stations may be available soon after passage of a 400,000 water department bond issue by city council.
The American Legion's pledge drive to obtain promises of work for veterans to be done in Youngstown homes and businesses enters its second day. A list of the work the men will do includes roofing, grading, flooring and finishing work.