Today is Saturday, March 22, the 82nd day of 2008. There are 284 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, March 22, the 82nd day of 2008. There are 284 days left in the year. On this date in 1765, Britain enacts the Stamp Act of 1765 to raise money from the American colonies. (The Act is repealed the following year.)

In 1638, religious dissident Anne Hutchinson is expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for defying Puritan orthodoxy. In 1820, U.S. Navy hero Stephen Decatur is killed in a duel with Commodore James Barron near Washington. In 1882, President Chester Arthur signs a measure outlawing polygamy. In 1908, American author Louis L’Amour was born in Jamestown, N.D. In 1933, during Prohibition, President Franklin Roosevelt signs a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal. In 1941, the Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state goes into operation.

March 22, 1983: Hundreds of youngsters fill out applications at the Mill Creek Community Center for summer jobs with the Youngstown Employment Training Consortium.

By a 5-2 vote, Girard City Council places an issue on the June primary ballot to increase the city’s income tax from 1.5 to 2 percent.

During a lecture to 450 community leaders in the Kilcawley Room at Youngstown State University, Maj. Malcolm Wren unveils a 22-foot model of the airship his company intends to build in Youngstown.

March 22, 1968: Rain mixed with sleet and snow raises the level at the Meander Reservoir 6 feet, bringing it to 80 percent of capacity, still below the normal March level.

A 17-year-old Woodland Avenue youth, who was free on bond while awaiting a probation hearing after pleading guilty to stabbing another teenager to death, is back in the Mahoning County Jail after being nabbed in a purse snatching.

Youngstown’s Central YMCA volleyball team is headed for Dallas, Texas, to compete in an invitational tournament.

March 22, 1958: Shenango Valley communities will discuss uniting to provide bus transportation if the Shenango Valley Transportation Co. carries out its threat to abandon service in the area.

A 17-year-old Arlington Street mother is asked to take a lie detector test in connection with the death of her three-month-old son. The father of the boy said he fell from the seat of the car during a ride that was taken to quiet the child.

The Committee for Economic Development calls for a 20 percent cut in all income taxes, which would give the struggling U.S. economy a $7.5 billion shot in the arm.

March 22, 1933: Half of man’s brain is “a vacant lot,” Dr. Louis J. Karnosh, associate professor of neurology at Western Reserve University, tells members of the Mahoning County Medical Society, meeting at the Youngstown Club.

Representatives of all Jewish organizations in Youngstown, in response to an appeal from Rabbi Stephen Wise of New York, will attend a meeting at the Jewish Center on Lincoln Avenue to make plans for a mass meeting to protest Adolf Hitler’s ban against Jews in Germany.

Anson Joel Bentley of Niles, pioneer businessman in the Mahoning Valley, dies of pneumonia at the New Yorker Hotel. Services will be at the family home, 906 Robbins Ave.