Years Ago

Today is Sunday, March 25, the 85th day of 2012. There are 281 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1306: Robert the Bruce is crowned the King of Scots.

1634: English colonists sent by Lord Baltimore arrive in present-day Maryland.

1894: Jacob S. Coxey leads his “army” of unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to demand help from the federal government.

1911: One hundred and forty-six people, mostly young female immigrants, die when fire breaks out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York.

1947: A coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill., claims 111 lives.

1965: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. leads 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.

1975: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness. (The nephew is beheaded in June 1975.)

1990: Eighty-seven people, most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants, die when fire races through an illegal social club in New York.

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: Youngstown area steelworkers go to Washington to tell Congress that the Reagan administration’s pension reform proposals offer little for pension recipients and make it easier for corporations to use excess pension fund assets for other purposes.

Five seniors — Julia Williams and Vanessa Mitchum of East, Lisa Mitchell and Tangela Thomas of Rayen and Kris Sheets of Chaney — are named to the first team of the All-City basketball squad.

Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro is seeking to cut $73,000 from the $662,680 requested by Youngstown Municipal Clerk of Courts Rosemary Durkin for salaries in her department.

1972: An 80-unit high rise building for the elderly and 30 separate low-income units are approved for construction in Girard by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The estimated cost is $2.2 million.

The estate of the late Leon A. Beeghly sells 109 acres of the Beeghly farm at Starr’s Corners on Route 224 for $250,000 to a Cleveland realty firm that plans commercial and multi-family development.

Chuck Sammarone, former Youngstown State football star, wins the Class A singles handball championship for the second straight year at the Youngstown YMCA tournament, coming from behind to defeat Al Pomponio.

1962: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. starts up its electric weld pipe mill at the Brier Hill Works to tackle a good flow of orders for various types of electric weld and seamless pipe.

The contest between General Fireproofing Co.’s oldline management and “industrial raider” Alfons Landis for control of Youngstown’s biggest fabricating company, will come to a head with a meeting of GF shareholders.

1937: Dr. W.W. Ryall, Youngs–town health commissioner, invites the Mahoning County Health Department to join forces in establishing a countywide venereal disease clinic.

The Ohio Senate finance committee approves a bill appropriating $3.6 million annually to aid in the education of Ohio parochial school students.

About 300 men and women return to work at the Ohio Leather Co. as a sitdown strike there ends; other departments will be added in coming days. Meanwhile, management and a CIO union are negotiating terms of a contract.