Years Ago

Today is Monday, March 5, the 65th day of 2012. There are 301 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1512: Ccartographer Gerardus Mercator, creator of the Mercator Projection map of the world, is born in Flanders in the Holy Roman Empire.

1933: In German parliamentary elections, the Nazi Party wins 44 percent of the vote; the Nazis join with a conservative nationalist party to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.

1959: A fire at the Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville, Ark., claims the lives of 21 teenagers trapped inside a locked dormitory room.

1960: Elvis Presley is discharged from the U.S. Army.

1963: Country music performers Patsy Cline, “Cowboy” Copas and “Hawkshaw” Hawkins die in a plane crash near Camden, Tenn..

1982,: Comedian John Belushi is found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was 33.

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1987: Top-ranking LTV Corp. officials spend 90 minutes airing their differences with U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. and USW District Director Frank Valenta over the future of LTV’s Warren Works.

A man and woman are shot to death and two women wounded at a house at 334 Uber Avenue. A three-year-old child is found unharmed in a back bedroom.

1972: The Ohio Leather Co. has been ordered by U.. District Judge Frank J. Battisti to pay $1.3 million to an insurance carrier to provide annuities for 200 employees who the company claimed were not eligible for pensions because it went out of business.

Tri-County League champions Poland High bombs Girard, 82-42, and Liberty upsets Minerva, 58-41, before 1,900 fans in Salem to advance to the Sectional AA tourney.

1962: A 46-year-old Lisbon mother and three of her six children are killed when their compact car is crushed by a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train on the Rt. 45 crossing in Salem. Dead are Mrs. Alice Clewell and daughters Becky, 14; Jennifer, 12, and son, Lucian, 10.

Safecrackers break into the Ewing Road home of N.T. Kaleel, president of Kaleel Produce Wholesalers, taking $2,000 in cash and $10,000 in savings bonds from a safe.

1937: Youngstown Mayor Lionel Evans says that if the Bord Disposal Co. does not resume collection of garbage in the city, he will commandeer the company’s equipment and hire the men necessary to get the job done.

With monthly payroll approaching $10 million, the Youngstown area business community is anticipating record breaking pre-Easter and spring season sales.