Today is Tuesday, March 18, the 78th day of 2008. There are 288 days left in the year. On this date
Today is Tuesday, March 18, the 78th day of 2008. There are 288 days left in the year. On this date in 1858, German mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine, is born in Paris.
In 1766, Britain repeals the Stamp Act of 1765. In 1837, Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, is born in Caldwell, N.J. In 1922, Mohandas K. Gandhi is sentenced in India to six years’ imprisonment for civil disobedience. (He is released after serving two years.) In 1937, some 300 people, mostly children, are killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas. In 1938, Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas nationalizes his country’s petroleum reserves and takes control of foreign-owned oil facilities. In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agrees to join Germany’s war against France and Britain. In 1959, President Eisenhower signs the Hawaii statehood bill. (Hawaii becomes a state on Aug. 21, 1959.)
March 18, 1983: General Motors Corp.’s Fisher Body stamping plant at Lordstown is judged the producer of the highest quality automobile and van stampings of any Fisher body plant.
A fire in a pile of tires at Cleveland Auto Wrecking on Hubbard Road will probably have to burn itself out. A bulldozer was used to reduced the pile and keep the fire from spreading to a nearby area where a Model A. Ford, two Cadillac Youngstown police master cruisers and a Packard ambulance are stored.
About 17 percent of Pennsylvania’s college students are heavy drinkers, according to a Penn State University official speaking at a statewide conference on problems of student drinking.
March 18, 1968: A $20,000 fire destroys a warehouse at 131 W. State Street in Niles. The building once housed the Stafford Theater, which was built in the early 1900s.
A new $450,000 post office will replace the East Liverpool Post Office, which has fallen into disrepair and will probably be auctioned to the public.
President Johnson calls on the American people for austerity at home and an all-out effort to win the Vietnam war. With the dollar under assault in international markets, Johnson wants to cut $3 billion to $4 billion from the budget and increase income taxes by 10 percent.
March 18, 1958: Meadowlark Lemon and the Harlem Globetrotter play the House of David team at South Field House with proceeds going to the United Veterans Council Youth Fun. A group of prominent Youngstowners have bought tickets so that the Youngstown University Penguins basketball team can attend the game.
Youngstown Police Chief Paul H. Cress asks the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. to cut off telephone service to the Coffee House at 23 South Ave., where a bug arrest was made.
Mahoning County commissioners and members of the Board of Elections meet with the owners of two large downtown buildings in an effort to solve the board’s problem of a shortage of office space and storage of voting machines.
March 18, 1933: Groups of Youngstown consumers, including the gasoline dealers association and the pharmacists, say they are taking steps to cut consumption of electricity in an effort to pressure Ohio Edison Co. to reduce rates.
Youngstown Patrolman John Savko, 28, a Youngstown policeman for six months, is dismissed by Chief Leroy Goodwin on charges of conduct unbecoming an officer for pointing a firearm at a man and using bad language while off duty.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt flies from Newark, N.J., to Washington, D.C, the first time a first lady has traveled by air. She and a secretary boarded an 18-passenger plane and made the trip with eight other passengers.