Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, March 6, the 66th day of 2012. There are 300 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1834: The city of York in Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.

1836: The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, falls to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.

1857: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Scott, a slave, is not an American citizen and cannot sue for his freedom in federal court.

1902: Congress passes a measure creating a Census Office in the Department of the Interior (the office is moved to the Department of Commerce and Labor the following year).

1912: Oreo sandwich cookies (originally called “biscuits”) are first introduced by Nabisco.

1933: A nationwide bank holiday declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt goes into effect.

1944: U.S. heavy bombers stage the first full-scale American raid on Berlin during World War II.

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: Crews from the A.P. O’Horo Co. begin demolishing the old Oak Street bridge to make way for a replacement.

The Youngstown Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union asks the city to modify its Christmas nativity scene on Federal Plaza or face possible legal action.

The Ungaro administration is discussing plans to sell the Lansdowne Airport, the municipal parking deck and property at Lake Milton and the City Annex to help the city through its financial pinch.

1972: General Motors rejects a suggestion by the United Auto Workers that a two-day old strike at the Lordstown plant be suspended while negotiations continue. Production of the Chevrolet Vega has been halted.

Paul H. Velker, 79, president of the Davis-Velker Funeral Home, dies of a heart attack at his home, 4139 Howard St.

Sue Miranda, a sophomore medical technology major at Youngstown State University, is crowned queen of YSU’s 22nd annual Military Ball at the Voyager Motor Inn.

1962: The notorious “Ivy League” bandit, who terrorized Youngstown during a series of armed robberies in 1958, is arrested following the armed robbery of Fifth Avenue Loblaw-Century Food Market. The 24-year-old suspect had been free on parole for two months after serving more than three years for armed robbery.

The heaviest snowfall of the year, a sudden storm that dropped 8 to 12 inches on the area, closes some rural and city schools and creates one of the worst rush hour traffic jams in city history.

A 59-year-old Struthers steelworker is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Jewell Andrews Jr., 29, outside the Tally Ho Club on Wilson Avenue.

1937: A strike by local garbage collectors ends after the Bord Disposal Co. rehires five drivers who had been discharged for water loads to increase their pay.

The General Fireproofing Co. approves wage and salary increases of 10 percent for about 1,700 hourly workers and 300 office workers.

A scarcity of skilled and semiskilled labor is expected to delay actual operation of the 40-hour week in the Youngstown district steel mills and thousands of men are expected to continue to work 44 and 48 hours a week.