Years Ago

March 28, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Today is Palm Sunday, the 87th day of 2010. There are 278 days left in the year.

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1834: The U.S. Senate votes to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.

1898: The Supreme Court, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, rules that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants is a U.S. citizen.

1930: The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora are changed to Istanbul and Ankara.

1935: The notorious Nazi propaganda film “Triumph des Willens” (Triumph of the Will), directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premieres in Berlin with Adolf Hitler present.

1939: The Spanish Civil War effectively ends as Madrid falls to the forces of Francisco Franco.

1941: Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf drowns herself in Lewes, England.

1969: The 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, dies in Washington, D.C., at age 78.

1979: America’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurs inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.

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1985: Management of General Motors Lordstown Corp. car and truck assembly plants and the adjacent metal stamping plant will be realigned under a single manager, says Richard G. LeFauve, a GM vice president. Richard Hoover will be manager of Lordstown operations, replacing Charles Abernathy and Frank Kontely, who are retiring.

Trumbull County commissioners enact a half-percent piggyback sales tax, which will be placed on the ballot in an effort to make it permanent.

1970: With holiday travelers crowding the airlines and air traffic controllers on strike, flights are being canceled, including some at the Youngstown Municipal Airport, stranding travelers.

Youngstown area customers of Ohio Bell Telephone Co. will see an increase of $1.10 a month in the basic service charge, bringing the monthly bill to $6.30.

Bob Thompson enters his 12th season as tennis coach of the Youngstown State University Penguins, with four returners on his squad, Steve Wilt, Bill Glaser, Bob Elias and Jim Lanz.

1960: Youngstown Police Chief Peter Venorsky and his vice squad raid two East Side cheat spots after numerous complaints from neighborhood residents about the after-hour liquor operations.

A record crowd of 4,000 attends the 22nd annual Mahoning-Shenango Kennel Club show at the Idora Ballroom. Champion Highland Sand George, a miniature poodle owned by James Farrell of Tiro, Ohio, wins best in show.

1935: Although the St. Lawrence Seaway would provide an ocean port within 60 miles of Youngstown, the St. Lawrence Treaty is grossly unfair to the United States, A.J. Boehme, tax agent for the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., tells the Exchange Club.

Thousands of letters and small packages containing lottery tickets, most mailed from Canada, but some coming from Cuba, are seized by postal officials in Youngstown, says Otto W.F. Reichle, superintendent of mails.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge J.H.C. Lyon criticizes attorneys for filing cases that “haven’t even enough basis to be tried to a justice of the peace.” He cited the case of a plaintiff in an auto injury case who could show no more injury than a bruise on her arm the size of a quarter.