Years Ago

Today is Saturday, March 24, the 84th day of 2012. There are 282 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1765: Britain enacts the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.

1832: A mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacks, tars and feathers Mormon leaders Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.

1882: German scientist Robert Koch announces in Berlin that he has discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.

1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill granting future independence to the Philippines.

1944: In occupied Rome, the Nazis execute more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that had killed 32 German soldiers.

1958: Rock-and-roll singer Elvis Presley is inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tenn.

1980: One of El Salvador’s most respected Roman Catholic Church leaders, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, is shot to death by a sniper as he celebrated Mass in San Salvador.

1989: The supertanker Exxon Valdez runs aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and begins leaking 11 million gallons of crude oil.

1995: After 20 years, British soldiers stop routine patrols in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1999: NATO launches airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it had ever attacked a sovereign country.

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1987: At a time when the dollar has shrunk to a post-World War II low against the yen, Republic Hose Manufacturing Corp. is taking advantage of the devaluation to seek overseas markets for its goods.

Jo Ann Rezek, a secretary in the trust department of Dollar Savings & Trust Co.’s Youngstown office, is selected Woman of the Year by the Holly Chapter of the American Business Women’s Association.

Howland Township trustees approve a “bare-bones” budget of $2.8 million for 1987, a few thousand less than 1986’s budget.

1972: Prospects of settling the costly 21-day strike at the General Motors Lordstown complex appear brighter following all-night talks between company and UAW negotiators.

James P. Wrenn, 46, an engineering instructor at the Shenango Valley Campus of Penn State University and former Struthers science teacher, is killed when his car skids on icy Interstate 80 near DuBois and strikes a guardrail and embankment.

1962: Youngstown city lawyers will seek a legal way of moving an old family burial plot on the former Powers estate that lies in the path of the Boardman Expressway near Powers Way.

Robbers stage the third sawed-off shotgun holdup on consecutive nights, hitting a McGuffey Road garage, but police arrest two suspects in New Castle, and have the car and shotgun believed to have been used in the robbery.

James McCray, former choir boy and soloist in St. Patrick Church choir in Youngstown, wins half of the $2,000 Weyerhaeuser scholarship in the Metropolitan Opera’s auditions for young singers. The 28-year old tenor is studying in New York.

1937: Dr. W.W. Ryall, Youngstown’s health commissioner, was a country doctor at the age of 22 and is marking his 40th year as a physician.

About 60,000 workers in the Youngs-town district will receive an estimated $5 million in payroll, the highest since the World War days, when men worked up to 84 hours a week.

Repair work begins on the Mary furnace of Sharon Steel Corp., which has been idle since 1931, with hope that it will be back in operation by June.