Years Ago

Today is Friday, March 2, the 62nd day of 2012. There are 304 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1877: Republican Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.

1917: Puerto Ricans are granted U.S. citizenship as President Woodrow Wilson signs the Jones-Shafroth Act.

1939: Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected pope on his 63rd birthday; he takes the name Pius XII.

1943: The World War II Battle of the Bismarck Sea begins; U.S. and Australian warplanes are able to inflict heavy damage on a Japanese convoy.

1962: Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks, an NBA record that still stands. (Philadelphia wins, 169-147.)

1992: Actress Sandy Dennis dies in Westport, Conn., at age 54.

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: Trumbull County’s first half 1986 real estate tax collections total about $34 million, up $2 million from a year earlier.

The American Civil Liberties Union in Washington claims that Struthers, Hubbard and Badger school districts are allowing their facilities to be used by children’s Bible-study groups in violation of the Constitution.

1972: Some 500 Youngs–town school teachers present seven demands to the Board of Education for the protection of teachers from student abuse.

Betty Lynn Howie of Youngstown, a senior at Villa Maria High School in Pennsylvania, is one of 335 winners in the eighth National Achievement Scholarship Program for Outstanding Negro Students.

1962: Two gunmen cause panic in a crowd of 40 clerks and customers at Peoples Drug Store, 204 W. Federal St., sending some customers screaming into the street and interrupting the hold up.

Maria Daniels drops her 10-month-old baby to safety from the second floor window at 11200 W. Rayen Ave. after fire drives five people from the home. Mrs. Daniels’ brother catches the baby.

WXTV, Channel 45, Youngstown’s fourth TV station, is off the air after broadcasting for little over a year following claims by the Federal Communications Commission that misrepresentations were made to the federal agency.

Youngstown Municipal Judge John J. Leskovyansky deals a blow to city efforts to harass known gamblers, dismissing the charges against one of the city’s best-known gamblers, saying there wasn’t sufficient evidence to prove he’s a gambler.

1937: Over 30,000 Youngstown District steel mill workers are assured of wage increase and work hour concessions worth $7 million to $8 million will boost the area’s economy.

Garbage goes uncollected in Youngstown as 32 employees of Bord Co. remain on strike over the firing of four drivers.

A strike by Youngstown bricklayers is avoided after they receive a raise of $2 a day, bringing the daily pay to $12.