Today is Sunday, March 1, the 60th day of 2009. There are 305 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, March 1, the 60th day of 2009. There are 305 days left in the year. On this date in 1932, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, is kidnapped from their home near Hopewell, N.J.

In 1790, President George Washington signs a measure authorizing the first U.S. Census. In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signs an act creating Yellowstone National Park. In 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists open fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen. In 1959, Archbishop Makarios III returns to Cyprus following an agreement on Cypriot independence from Britain. (Makarios goes on to be elected the first president of the Republic of Cyprus.) In 1961, President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps. In 1981, Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he dies 65 days later. In 2003, suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is captured by Pakistani and CIA agents.

March 1, 1984: The Salem Parks Commission receives a matching grant of $180,000 from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and will use the money for improvements at Centennial Park.

Youngstown City Council proposes that unions representing city workers accept concessions as an alternative to layoffs.

A Miami judge overrules a jury’s recommendation for mercy and orders the death penalty for Edward Wasko, a Boardman man convicted of murdering a 10-year-old Florida girl.

March 1, 1969: Operating Engineers Local 60 will pay a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for bombing the home of its business agent, Calvin Malone, at 382 Mathews Road.

Mahoning County commissioners, facing income of $5.8 million in 1969, face the difficult task of cutting $1.3 million from the budget request made by elected officials, the courts and appointed department heads.

Paul H. Smith is elected District 13 executive committeemen of the Ohio State Bar Association at a meeting of more than 100 lawyers from the six-county district at the Ohio Hotel.

March 1, 1959: Foreign trade has become tremendously important for a large segment of Youngstown district industry, but creeping inflation is threatening to strangle it.

The Dollar Savings & Trust Co. opens its Boardman Branch on the ground floor of the Edward J. DeBartolo Building at 7600 Market St., opposite the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. offices.

Norma Jean Fairbanks of Warren is named Miss Student Nurse at the East Ohio Student Nurse Association dinner. She is a student nurse at Trumbull Memorial Hospital.

March 1, 1934: Frank Flaherty, 23, dies while saving his brother and sisters from a fire that gutted their home at 333 S. Truesdale. He awoke the family and stayed in the house until he was sure the others had escaped, but made a wrong turn into a closet while trying to find his own way out.

Miss Julia Ohl, 84, granddaughter of Michael Ohl, the first settler at Ohtown, dies after a long illness. Her father, David, was a pioneer bridge builder and mill builder.

Utilities engineer E.E. Ingersoll reports a record sale of 12,240 weekly railroad passes at $1 each.