Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Today is Wednesday, March 31, the 90th day of 2010. There are 275 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1492: King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issue an edict expelling Jews from Spanish soil, except those willing to convert to Christianity.
1880: Wabash, Ind., becomes the first U.S. town to be illuminated by electrical lighting.
1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs, the Emergency Conservation Work Act creating the Civilian Conservation Corps.
1968: At the end of a nationally broadcast address on Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson stuns his audience by declaring, “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.”
1995: Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez, 23, is shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the founder of her fan club.
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1985: John R. Perkins, CEO of Metropolitan Savings Bank, says he anticipates the Met to operate as a separate and independent entity following its “partnership” with FNB Corp., a Hermitage, Pa., bank-holding company.
Carol Baird, director of the Youngstown school district’s music program, has overseen the expansion of band and choir programs in city high schools, bringing membership in the five choirs to 450, while the bands have 257 members.
1970: Sharon Steel Corp. files a complaint against the United Steelworkers District 20 in Mercer County Court seeking $150,000 per day as long as a wildcat strike continues.
The Youngstown architectural firm of Damon, Worley, Cady, Kirk and Associates is named to design the $4 million expansion of the Kilcawley Student Center.
1960: The U.S. Senate Rackets Committee includes Youngstown among 11 cities where it says mobsters and corrupt union officials have permeated the juke box and pinball gambling machine business.
Virginia Lickner Williams, a graduate of the Youngstown Hospital School of Nursing, is named director of nursing at Woodside Receiving Hospital.
1935: D.T. Peters, president of the Youngstown Real Estate Board, says there is an acute shortage of housing in Youngstown and he predicts a substantial revival in home building and sharp gains in real estate values and sales.
Sheriff Ralph Elser and 20 deputies raid two bootleg joints in Youngstown residential districts, arresting two men and seizing 45 gallons of finished liquor.
James L. Wick of the Falcon Bronze Co. is elected chairman of the board of governors of Youngstown College and head of the college executive committee at a board meeting in Wick Hall. William E. Bliss is elected vice chairman.
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