Today is Thursday, March 29, the 88th day of 2007. There are 277 days left in the year. On this date in 1973, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam, ending America's direct military

Today is Thursday, March 29, the 88th day of 2007. There are 277 days left in the year. On this date in 1973, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam, ending America's direct military involvement in the Vietnam War.
In 1847, victorious forces led by General Winfield Scott occupy the city of Vera Cruz after Mexican defenders capitulated. In 1867, Britain's Parliament passes the British North America Act (later known as the Constitution Act) to create the Dominion of Canada. In 1882, the Knights of Columbus is chartered in Connecticut. In 1943, during World War II meat, butter and cheese rationing begins. In 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. (They were executed in June 1953.) In 1962, Jack Paar hosts NBC's "Tonight" show for the final time. In 1971, Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. is convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre. (Calley spends three years under house arrest.) In 1974, eight Ohio National Guardsmen are indicted on federal charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University. (The charges were later dismissed.)
March 29, 1982: Mahoning County Common Pleas Court judges are discussing what action to take about reports that Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. took 55,000 from racketeer Vincenzo "Jimmy" Prato during the sheriff's 1980 campaign.
Youngstown Police Chief Stanley E. Peterson resigns, saying the steady increase in departmental costs and decrease in operating funds has made the job difficult to fulfill. Mayor George Vukovich will name Det. John E. Lynch to replace Peterson.
Some 350 members of Congregation El Emeth take part in ceremonies moving the sacred scrolls of the Torah from the former temple in Youngstown to the new edifice on Logan Way in Liberty Township.
March 29, 1967: The Youngstown Board of Education needs an additional 4 million a year, or about 8 mills of tax, to provide the salaries, hospitalization insurance and other benefits teachers should have, the Citizens Advisory Committee is told at Raver's Restaurant.
A 49-year-old North Jackson osteopathic physician is charge by the Mahoning County sheriff's office with performing an abortion on a 22-year-old Ohio State University senior. Capt. Orlando DiLullo says the arrest culminates a year-long investigation.
Francis M. Freeman, 43, a Bessemer & amp; Lake Erie Railroad brakeman, is killed under the wheels of a freight car while switching cars in the shop yards in Greenville, Pa.
March 29, 1957: The Boardman Transit Co. will discontinue service on Sundays and holidays because not enough riders use the suburban line's buses on those days.
Four of Youngstown's five candidates for the Republican nomination for mayor open their campaigns with statements of their candidacies to 250 GOP central committeemen at the Calvin Center. Appearing were Robert W. Isaacson, Donald J. Lewis, George L. Stowe and Atty. Alvy T. Witt. G. Stanley Kreiler, who was in Cleveland, sent a message.
March 29, 1932: Dr. W.E. Hammaker, chairman of the Citizen's Relief committee, calls for an investigation of expenses for the city's soup kitchens, including the purchase of six kettles for 342 and salary expenditures of about 500 a week.
Mrs. Charles O'Linn, whose husband's drug store at 4230 Market St. was robbed of 300 worth of merchandise, complains that it was five hours before a deputy sheriff was sent to investigate.