Years ago

Today is Tuesday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2010. There are 283 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1775: Patrick Henry delivers an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is said to have declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

1806: Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, begin their journey back east.

1919: Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.

1933: The German Reichstag adopts the Enabling Act, which effectively grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.

1956: Pakistan becomes an Islamic republic.

Dr. Barney Clark, recipient of a Jarvik permanent artificial heart, dies at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112 days with the device.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: Metropolitan Savings Bank of Youngstown receives federal approval to merge with First National Bank of Mercer County, which will provide Metropolitan with the federal deposit insurance it needs to reopen.

The Market Street Merchants Association asks the Ungaro administration for help in implementing an ambitious revitalization plan that was conceived by the city in 1981 but never acted upon.

1970: Joseph Ula Jr., 32, of Poland is killed instantly when his single-engine, four-seat Piper Cherokee crashes during a snow storm while attempting to land at Youngstown Municipal Airport.

Mahoning County Engineer J. Phillip Richley says the engineering firm of Mosure & Fok will use the “Super Snooper,” one of the most sophisticated pieces of inspection equipment ever made, to inspect the Market Street Bridge and five other bridges for signs of deterioration.

1960: Youngstown Traction Commissioner James W. Cannon says express operation of Boardman buses is ending. Buses running between Boardman and downtown will stop at all regular bus stops along Market Street.

Twin teachers at Youngs-town’s Harding School, Miss Joan Cestone and Mrs. John E. Powers, have twin students in their classes, Judy and Janet Harshman, six-year-old daughters of Mr. And Mrs. Abe Harshman.

1935: Stockholders of the Federal Savings & Loan Co. of Youngstown are pursuing federalizing the institution, which would provide insurance by the federal government of all accounts up to $5,000.

William Spagnola, police prosecutor, tells 100 people at a YMCA town meeting that civic officers in many cities are “bound hand and foot, body and soul, to the big shots of the underworld, and Youngstown is no different ... from many other towns.”