Today is Saturday, March 31, the 90th day of 2007. There are 275 days left in the year. On this date in 1889, French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel unfurls the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel

Today is Saturday, March 31, the 90th day of 2007. There are 275 days left in the year. On this date in 1889, French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel unfurls the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion.
In 1880, Wabash, Ind., becomes the first town in the world to be illuminated by electrical lighting. In 1917, the U.S. takes possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark. In 1933, Congress approves, and President Roosevelt signs, the Emergency Conservation Work Act, which creates the Civilian Conservation Corps. In 1943, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" opens on Broadway. In 1945, the Tennessee Williams play "The Glass Menagerie" opens on Broadway. In 1949, Newfoundland enters confederation as Canada's 10th province. In 1957, the original version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella," starring Julie Andrews, airs live in color on CBS. In 1968, President Johnson stuns the country by announcing he would not seek another term in office. In 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court rules that Karen Ann Quinlan, who is in a persistent vegetative state, could be disconnected from her respirator. (Quinlan, who remained unconscious, died in 1985.) In 2005, Terri Schiavo, 41, dies at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in a wrenching right-to-die dispute.
March 31, 1982: Juvenile Court Judge Martin P. Joyce orders Mahoning County commissioners to provide an additional 194,170 for operation of the Juvenile Justice Center.
The average monthly bills for East Ohio Gas Co. customers will go up about 9 per month due to an increase in prices the company pays for its natural gas. The PUCO will allow East Ohio to increase its rates by 15 percent.
The Hubbard Board of Education will lay off 15 teachers and 17 noncertificated employees to make up a 215,000 shortfall in its budget.
March 31, 1967: About 100 people attend a State Highway Department hearing in Youngstown to discuss the proposed route of the Hubbard Expressway and some route changes or abandonment of parts of Routes 170, 289, 62, 7 and 164.
The last segments of state Route 11, the Lake-to-River Highway, will be under construction by 1969, says State Highway Director P.E. Masheter.
Navy Lt. James P. Borsic, 27, of Poland is killed in a helicopter crash during flight operations from the U.S. Navy carrier Essex in the Atlantic Ocean, about 70 miles off Quonset Point.
Residential facilities to serve the retarded in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties are an objective of the state construction plan, Joseph Pickering tells the Health and Welfare Council during a meeting at Ravers Restaurant.
March 31, 1957: Sharon High School's basketball team defeats Chester, 59-50, in Philadelphia to win its second state basketball championship in four tries.
Public inspection of the new 900,000 Mahoning County jail and office building is postponed indefinitely because the county has not yet taken full control of the building.
About 650 Boy Scouts, their leaders and sportsmen gather in groups on eight Mahoning County farms to plant 20,000 seedling pine trees.
March 31, 1932: Virtually the entire fortune of John T. Harrington, attorney and financier, is left to his daughter, Miss Florence Harrington. The estate is estimated at 2.5 million. Harrington was once worth an estimated 20 million, but gave much of that to charity.
Henry Ford unveils his new eight-cylinder Ford car, which will sell for 500 in the two-door sedan model, the type most commonly sold. Prices range from 460 for the roadster to 650 for the convertible sedan.
A subcommittee of the Mahoning County Taxpayers Protective League questions county Commissioner Amos Mellinger about the expenses and large payroll for cleaning and maintaining the county courthouse. The custodian is paid 170 a month; 14 janitors are paid between 100 and 165 a month, and 14 matrons and janitresses are paid between 65 and 80.