Today is Tuesday, March 10, the 69th day of 2009. There are 296 days left in the year. On this date

March 10, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Tuesday, March 10, the 69th day of 2009. There are 296 days left in the year. On this date in 1876, the first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone takes place in Boston as his assistant hears Bell say, “Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you.”

In 1496, Christopher Columbus concludes his second visit to the Western Hemisphere as he leaves Hispaniola for Spain. In 1848, the Senate ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ends the Mexican-American War. In 1880, the Salvation Army arrives in the United States from England. In 1948, the body of the anti-Communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, is found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague. In 1949, Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as “Axis Sally,” is convicted in Washington, D.C., of treason. (She serves 12 years in prison.) In 1959, the Tennessee Williams play “Sweet Bird of Youth,” starring Paul Newman and Geraldine Page, opens at Broadway’s Martin Beck Theatre.

March 10, 1984: Cleveland Mayor George V. Voinovich says the Justice Department’s opposition to a merger of Cleveland’s Republic Steel Corp. and LTV Corp. of Dallas is hampering the ability of U.S. companies to compete in the world market.

Investigators from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms say the arsonist who torched The Mansion restaurant in Youngstown set fires in at least four locations.

Dr. John R. White, professor of anthropology at Youngstown State University, is one of 36 nationally recognized scientific experts who will serve as national lecturer for Sigma Xi, the international scientific research society.

March 10, 1969: Youngstown detectives are attempting to determine if the gunmen who wounded a taxi driver on the North Side were the same men who shot a Hubbard woman during a robbery behind a Belmont Avenue tavern.

Youngstown is the only city in Ohio to show a drop in the number of robberies reported in 1968, but, like most other cities, had a big jump in burglaries and breaking and entering.

The Mahoning County Board of the Ancient Order of the Hibernians will honor the Rev. Paul C. McNally, an assistant at St. Columba Cathedral, as Irishman of the year.

March 10, 1959: A jury of seven men and five women is unable to reach a verdict in the trial of a Hubbard 21-year-old, one of four young men accused of kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old Struthers girl. The three others have been sent to Lima State Hospital for mental observation.

A resolution advocating appointment instead of election of Ohio Supreme Court and appeals judges is submitted to the Ohio Legislature by a committee of the Ohio State Bar Association.

Rushdie Malouf of Beirut, Lebanon, editor of the second largest Arabic language newspaper in the world, is in Youngstown visiting his cousin, Atty. Joseph Sheban.

March 10, 1934: Steel output will remain at about 55 percent of capacity with 51 of 83 open hearth furnaces in operation.

Two armed gunmen hold up the Ohio Star Loan Co., 318 E. Federal St., and escape with $300 and a tray of diamonds after locking up two employees in the cellar.

Youngstown Detective Harry Fickes is granted a 60-day leave to work as a locomotive engineer on the Florida East Coast Railroad, police Chief Leroy Goodwin says.