Years Ago

Today is Thursday, March 17, the 76th day of 2011. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick’s Day.

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On this date in:

A.D. 461: (Or A.D. 493, depending on sources), St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, dies in Saul.

1762: New York’s first St. Patrick’s Day parade takes place.

1910: The Camp Fire Girls organization is formed.

1966: A U.S. midget submarine locates a missing hydrogen bomb which had fallen from an American bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain.

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1986: A landmark since 1881 at 500 S. Main Street in Poland, the Walter Arrel House, has been renovated by its new owners, Atty. and Mrs. Stephen Meloy, and will open as the area’s first bed and breakfast inn.

Thousands turn out for the Pete Gabriel St. Patrick’s Day parade along Route 422 in Boardman.

1971: About 70 Youngs–town firefighters, some in uniform, conduct an informational picket line at City Hall aimed at breaking the deadlock in negotiations between the city and firefighters’ union.

Dr. Richard Viering, superintendent of Youngstown schools, says the city public schools will have less income in 1971; the board adopts a budget of $30 million.

1961: The Dairymen’s Cooperative Sales Association reaches a new agreement with Youngstown area milk producers to increase what’s paid for Class I blend milk to $5 per hundred pounds.

St. Patrick’s Day dawns in Youngstown with the coldest temperatures in 12 years as the mercury drops to 12 degrees above zero at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.

1936: People line up at least 20 deep at the Youngstown Internal Revenue Service counter downtown to pay their taxes before the midnight deadline. Jerome Santangelo says he expects to keep the office open until the midnight deadline.

Automobile, train, bus and street car traffic are almost paralyzed as a St. Patrick’s Day morning storm drops 10 inches of snow on Youngstown .

Irene Norma Basista, 4-year-old Struthers girl, dies after falling on a drinking glass and a sliver pierces her heart.