Years Ago

Today is Tuesday, March 13, the 73rd day of 2012. There are 293 days left in the year.

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1639: New College is renamed Harvard College for clergyman John Harvard.

1862: President Abraham Lincoln signs a measure prohibiting Union military officers from returning fugitive slaves to their owners, effectively superseding the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

1901: The 23rd president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, dies in Indianapolis at age 67.

1925: The Tennessee General Assembly approves a bill prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution.1933: Banks begin to reopen after a “holiday” declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1992: The U.S. House of Representatives, trying to weather a politically embarrassing firestorm, votes unanimously to publicly identify 355 current and former members who had overdrawn their accounts at the House bank.

1996: A gunman bursts into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opens fire, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.

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1987: After two subpar seasons, Mike Rice is relieved as head coach of the Youngstown State University Penguins basketball team.

Stacks of unopened envelopes containing real estate tax payments are sitting in Mahoning County Treasurer Michael Pope’s office safe, a result of the laying off of 10 of Pope’s 14 employees.

1972: Sandra Churchey, better known to Youngstown burlesque fans as Busty Russell, is one of three women arrested for nudism by six vice section officers at the Palace Theater, 1213 Market St.

Sixteen people are free on $1,000 bond each following FBI raids in Chester, W.Va., on what was described as a “large casino-style gambling operation catering to race-track type clientele.”

1962: Hundreds of irate taxpayers swamp the Mahoning County Courthouse switchboard, calling to complain about increases in their tax bills caused by a mandatory reappraisal.

Ralph Gaudio of Youngstown is arrested in a roadblock in Morrow County that was set up after five men fled from the scene of a burglary at the Debb Vending Co. in Mansfield. Police said Gaudio, who described himself as a clothing salesman, had two suitcases of burglary tools in his car, including walkie talkies.

1937: A jury in Mahoning Common Pleas Judge Erskine M. Maiden’s court fails to agree in a $100,000 alienation of affection suit brought by Ludwick Pascarella, local mural painter, against Edward W. Kurz, former shoe store operator.

Rayen School, last of the four Youngstown teams in the Northeastern Ohio Class A Tournament, loses to Warren Harding High, 29-22, in Akron.