Today is Saturday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2007. There are 282 days left in the year. On this date in 1765, Britain enacts the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary

Today is Saturday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2007. There are 282 days left in the year. On this date in 1765, Britain enacts the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.
In 1882, German scientist Robert Koch announces in Berlin that he has discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis. In 1934, President Roosevelt signs a bill granting future independence to the Philippines. In 1944, in occupied Rome, the Nazis execute more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that killed 32 German soldiers. In 1955, the Tennessee Williams play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway with Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie, Ben Gazzara as Brick and Burl Ives as Big Daddy. In 1958, rock-and-roll singer Elvis Presley is inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tenn. In 1976, the president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, is deposed by her country's military. In 1980, one of El Salvador's most respected Roman Catholic Church leaders, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, is shot to death by gunmen as he celebrated Mass in San Salvador. In 1989, the nation's worst oil spill occurs as the supertanker Exxon Valdez runs aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and begins leaking 11 million gallons of crude. In 1995, for the first time in 20 years, no British soldiers were patrolling the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1999, NATO launches airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it has ever attacked a sovereign country.
March 24, 1982: Campbell residents approve an increase in the income tax from 11/2 to 2 percent by a vote of 1,614 to 1,262.
The Warren Board of Education adopts a 1982 appropriations budget of 22 million that will require a cut of 42 employees in the fall.
Sen. John Glenn, Ohio Democrat, says "misguided policies" of President Reagan are causing ballooning deficits which have driven up interest rates and crippled the auto and home building industries. Glenn says more than 2 million jobs have been lost.
March 24, 1967: A tall mustachioed gunman robbed the Lawson Dairy Store at 1557 Oak St. for the second time in two months. He may also be the same man who tried to rob the A & amp;P on Mahoning Avenue about 25 minutes earlier.
Second Lt. Charles W. Brown Jr., 23, of Austintown, is reported killed during a fire fight in Vietnam. His death came less than a year after an Austintown classmate and football teammate, Sgt. James E. Prommersberger, became Austintown's first Vietnam casualty.
Three small children perish and their parents are critically burned when fire sweeps the familiy's five-room apartment in the Maple Grove housing project in Windham. Dead are Lana Lee Turner, 5; Frances Sue, 3, and Ellis, 7 months.
March 24, 1957: The Commissioner of Internal Revenue reports collections of 294,000 in wagering taxes from Northern Ohio for fiscal 1956, indicating that area racketeers took in at least 2.9 million from the dimes and dollars bet on the daily number.
The current Arab-Israeli crisis can come to a peaceful solution only through the United Nations, Dominic L. Strada, national commander of AMVETS, tells 100 veterans and guests during a banquet in Youngstown.
March 24, 1932: The Farrell Mills operated by the American Sheet & amp; Tin Plate Co. will recall 1,800 employees for part-time work on nine mills.
Six witnesses identify John Finnessy, Erie Railroad detective, as the man who fired shots at them from a moving Erie train. Four men were wounded. Youngstown Police Chief Leroy Goodwin has criticized the railroad's detectives for firing on coal thieves.
Mahoning County Judge Harry Hoffman dismisses arson charges against Atty. John Willo, accused of conspiring with two men to torch an E. Federal Street building. The men refused to testify against Willo on the grounds that their testimony might tend to incriminate them.