Today is Friday, March 20, the 79th day of 2009. There are 286 days left in the year. On this date

March 20, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Friday, March 20, the 79th day of 2009. There are 286 days left in the year. On this date in 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returns to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule.

In 1727, physicist, mathematician and astronomer Sir Isaac Newton dies in London. In 1828, poet-dramatist Henrik Ibsen is born in Skien, Norway. In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel about slavery, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” is first published in book form after being serialized. In 1899, Martha M. Place of Brooklyn, N.Y., becomes the first woman to be executed in the electric chair as she is put to death at Sing Sing for the murder of her stepdaughter. In 1956, union workers end a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp. In 1969, John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. In 1977, voters in Paris choose former French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac to be the French capital’s first mayor in more than a century.

March 20, 1984: Wright Airlines’ highly publicized threat to move its headquarters from Cleveland to Youngstown has convinced the Cleveland Port Control to lease the airline the space it wanted at Burke Lakefront Airport.

A confrontation between area police and labor activists is averted at the front gate of Youngstown Steel Door Co. on Henricks Road in Austintown. The striking steelworkers and other union supporters disbanded after one man was arrested.

Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro meets with community leaders from the South Side and officials of Community Corrections Association to try to reach an agreement on a proposed halfway house on Market Street.

March 20, 1969: Youngstown police are questioning a man and a woman about a fatal fire that was believed to have started in a Dearborn Street apartment building from careless smoking. Dead is Ann Marie Castellano, 35.

Youngstown City Council and the city administration indicate they are disturbed by the Youngstown Auto Club’s indecision over developing new or remodeled facilities on East Front Street.

A 31-year-old mother of five who admitted defrauding the Mahoning County Welfare Department of $5,500 over six years is sent to Marysville Reformatory for an indefinite term by Common Pleas Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt.

March 20, 1959: Ventura Ganzales, a 41-year-old steelworker, is shot dead by two Campbell policemen after Ganzales allegedly opened fire on Patrolman Nicholas Galanses who was questioning Ganzales about loitering. Galanses is in fair condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital with a gunshot wound of the jaw.

Despite an improvement in steel operations, an estimated 15,000 workmen who live within commuting distance of Youngstown are available for work at current wage rates, says A.E. McCully, manager of the Ohio State Bureau of Unemployment Compensation.

Judge Florence E. Allen, the first woman in Ohio to serve as a county prosecutor and the first woman to be named to the federal court of appeals when she was appointed by President Roosevelt in 1934, quietly marks her 75th birthday in Cleveland.

March 20, 1934: The Youngs–town Retail Meat Dealers and Grocers Association say Mahoning County commissioners and the county relief office are “playing politics” in allowing relief bills to accumulate since Jan. 1.

Officials from Beaver Falls and Beaver County say they are not opposed to a Beaver-Mahoning River canal to the Ohio River, but they are opposed to having to pay a local share of the cost.

Judge Robert M. Wilkins of New Philadelphia, who will succeed Judge Florence Allen on the Ohio Supreme Court bench after she was named to the court of appeals, will also fill in for Judge Allen in addressing a parent-teacher conference at Stambaugh Auditorium in Youngstown. He will discuss the role of the PTA today.