Years Ago

March 25, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Thursday, March 25, the 84th day of 2010. There are 281 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1894: Jacob S. Coxey begins leading an “army” of unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington D.C., to demand help from the federal government.

1911: One hundred and forty six people, mostly female immigrants, are killed when fire breaks out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York.

1947: A coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill., claim 111 lives.

1960: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, rules that the D.H. Lawrence novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” is not obscene and can be sent through the mails.

VINDICATOR FILES

1985: The Metropolitan Savings Bank reopens in Youngstown, 10 days after it was one of 70 state-chartered savings and loans ordered closed by Gov. Richard F. Celeste. Several hundred depositors calmly line up outside the Boardman branch waiting for the doors to open.

1970: A young bandit wearing a mask and holding a small revolver, holds a cashier and 20 customers at bay during a robbery of the Howard Johnson’s Restaurant, 6123 Market St.

Burglars break into the Super Center Store on Mahoning Avenue in Champion Township and escape with three TVs, a camera and nine guns valued at more than $1,100.

1960: Three Trumbull County men are charged with the burglary of the Mahoning National Bank North Jackson branch two weeks earlier.

Playing at the State Theater, Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess,” starring Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis. Jr. and Pearl Bailey.

1935: The Rev. E.P. Thorne tells a gathering at Himrod Baptist Church that “our city has been sold out to the forces of evil” and calls for a crackdown on racketeers who he likens to “vultures ready to swoop down on innocent victims.”

Eight minutes after the Youngstown police radio station broadcast a report that two men had broken out of jail at Beaver, Pa., and were believed to be in Youngstown, the two fugitives were captured driving down Hayes Avenue.