Today is Monday, March 26, the 85th day of 2007. There are 280 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Monday, March 26, the 85th day of 2007. There are 280 days left in the year. On this date in 1979, a peace treaty is signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White House.
In 1804, the Louisiana Purchase is divided into the Territory of Orleans and the District of Louisiana. In 1827, composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna, Austria. In 1892, poet Walt Whitman dies in Camden, N.J. In 1911, playwright Tennessee Williams is born in Columbus, Miss. In 1917, the Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. team to win the Stanley Cup as they defeat the Montreal Canadiens. In 1937, a 6-foot-tall concrete statue of the cartoon character Popeye is unveiled during the Second Annual Spinach Festival in Crystal City, Texas. In 1958, the U.S. Army launches America's third successful satellite, Explorer 3. In 1964, the musical play "Funny Girl," starring Barbra Streisand, opens on Broadway. In 1971, East Pakistan proclaims its independence, taking the name Bangladesh. In 1982, groundbreaking ceremonies take place in Washington for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
March 26, 1982: The Rayen School Tigers are attempting to become the first Youngstown school ever to win a state basketball championship when they play Dayton Roth for the Class AA title.
U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams, R-19th, announces that he will not run for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Ohio. Williams would have faced John Ashbrook of Johnstown in the primary.
Republicans in the General Assembly say the state income tax must be increased and welfare benefits cut so that all Ohioans are making sacrifices to wipe out a projected 1 billion budget shortfall.
A Warren woman drives her car through the window of the Arthur Treachers Fish & amp; Chips restaurant in front of the Eastwood mall, injuring three diners
March 26, 1967: The 10-story high Skyview Towers public housing building under construction for the elderly on Grant Street in New Castle will be the tallest building in the city when completed.
A 14-year-old East Side youth, just released from the Mahoning County Juvenile Research Center, is arrested at East High School, one of three schools burglarized.
The Franklin, Pa., Hospital, already facing a critical shortage of nurses, cannot open its new 30-bed east wing unless at least eight additional nurses are hired.
March 26, 1957: A Ryan monoplane, a replica of the "Spirit of St. Louis" that Col. Charles Lindberg flew across the Atlantic, lands at Youngstown Municipal Airport. The plane was used in the filming of a movie that commemorates Lindberg's flight and will open at the Warner Theater in April.
J. Paul Mossman, one of 17 district managers of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is elected executive secretary of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce to succeed H. Ross Packard, who will retire March 31.
The Pennsylvania Railroad purchases 14 acres in Lordstown Township adjacent to the proposed General Motors assembly plant for 16,000.
March 26, 1932: Former Girard City Auditor R.L. Evans is held to be short 5,895 in his water works accounts by State Examiner C.E. Lippincott in a report filed with the state bureau of accounting in Columbus.
Dr. Charles Wishart, president of Wooster College, will deliver the eulogy for John T. Harrington, local capitalist and philanthropist, to be held at the Harrington home, "Trails End," on Warner Road. The body is being transported from Sydney, Australia.
Youngstown Republican Congressman John G. Cooper says he did not tell U.S. Rep. Fred Britten that he expects to be defeated in November, but acknowledges that the race is likely to be close because of the wet and dry question. Cooper supports prohibition.