Years Ago

March 24, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Wednesday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2010. There are 282 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1765: Britain enacts the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.

1944: In occupied Rome, the Nazis execute more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that had killed 32 German soldiers.

1958: Rock-and-roll singer Elvis Presley is inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tenn.

1980: One of El Salvador’s most respected Roman Catholic Church leaders, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who spoke out against death squads, is shot to death by a sniper as he celebrates Mass in San Salvador.

1989: The supertanker Exxon Valdez runs aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and begins leaking 11 million gallons of crude oil.

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1985: The proposed elimination of federal revenue sharing by the Reagan administration would deal Mahoning County government’s small economic recovery a devastating blow, county officials say.

The Mahoning County Agricultural Expo opens at the Southern Park Mall, featuring a detailed scale model of a farm, rabbits, two calves and farm equipment and machinery.

1970: McCullough Williams Jr., well known civic leader and funeral director, is unanimously elected to the Youngstown Board of Education. The father of three Rayen School students will fill the unexpired term of Abe Harshman, who resigned.

The Higbee Co. of Cleveland announces it would construct a multimillion-dollar G.M. McKelvey department store in the new Southern Park Mall

Dr. Morris Abramovitz, administrator of state programs for nonpublic schools in the Youngstown area, is honored with a plaque in appreciation of his service. Abramovitz provides programs and materials for Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Jewish and other schools through state funds.

1960: The Most Rev. James W. Malone is consecrated a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church during impressive ceremonies attended by 1,500 clergy and laymen at St. Columba Cathedral.

By an 8-1 vote, the Mahoning County Planning Commission names former Youngstown City Engineer James C. Ryan the county’s planning director.

1935: Youngstown City Council has the authority to rule on whether marble boards are gambling devices, says Assistant City Law Director Walter E. Stankiewicz.

Dr. Robert Ray Scott, a Youngstown native and graduate of the Rayen School and Hiram College, who is director of the State Emergency Relief Education in West Virginia, is named superintendent of plantation schools in the Hawaiian islands and to a chair of education at the University of Hawaii.