Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, March 22, the 81st day of 2011. There are 284 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1765: Britain enacts the Stamp Act of 1765 to raise money from the American colonies.

1882: President Chester Alan Arthur signs a measure outlawing polygamy.

1929: A U.S. Coast Guard vessel sinks a Canadian-registered schooner, the I’m Alone, in the Gulf of Mexico. (The schooner is suspected of carrying bootleg liquor.)

1933: During Prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.

1978: Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of “The Flying Wallendas,” falls to his death while attempting to walk a cable between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

VINDICATOR FILES

1986: Frank J. Valenta, director of United Steelworkers Union District 28, warns that LTV Steel Corp. could be forced to file for bankruptcy if the company and union don’t reach a contract.

The Rayen Tigers are defeated 74-65 in a semifinal game for the state basketball championship with Oberlin at the Dayton Arena.

1971: Weekend deposits of undetermined value are stolen from the Union National Bank branch on N. Main Street in Poland.

1961: Mill Creek Park records its first traffic fatality in many years when Michael Dubyak, a well-known local tavern operator, crashes into a tree near the Parkview Avenue park entrance.

Low bids on a new Mahoning County home total $1.6 million, about $28,000 less than estimated.

1936: Youngstown area veterans organizations, churches, theaters, social agencies and civic groups join the Red Cross in sending food, clothing and supplies to hard hit flood areas along the Ohio River.

Col. Lynn Black of the Ohio Highway Patrol warns sightseers against visiting eastern and southeastern Ohio merely to see the ruins left behind by flooding.