Years Ago

Today is Wednesday, March 28, the 88th day of 2012. There are 278 days left in the year.

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1834: The U.S. Senate votes to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.

1898: The Supreme Court, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, rules that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants is a U.S. citizen.

1978: In Stump v. Sparkman, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds, 5-3, the judicial immunity of an Indiana judge against a lawsuit brought by a young woman who’d been ordered sterilized by the judge when she was a teenager.

1987: Maria von Trapp, whose life inspired “The Sound of Music,” dies in Morrisville, Vt., at age 82.

VINDICATOR FILES

1987: Dr. William H. Lippy, noted ear specialist from Warren, tells Youngstown State University’s graduating class that scientific achievements mean nothing unless accompanied by humanitarian commitment.

President Reagan orders stiff tariffs on $300 million in Japanese exports to the United States over Tokyo’s failure to keep an eight-year-old deal on semiconductor trade.

1972: Nearly 10,000 workers at the Lordstown General Motors plant begin working on a backlog of Chevrolet Vegas and Chevy vans following settlement of a three-week strike.

Dr. Richard F. Viering, superintendent of Youngstown city schools, resigns rather than hand over control of Hayes Middle School to a parents group upset by discipline procedures at the school.

1962: Youngstown will get an extra $36,000 for general operating expenses as a result of increased tax valuation, City Council says.

Commercial Shearing & Stamping Co. is awarded a multimillion-dollar contract for tunnel supports needed in the mammoth Mangia Dam project in West Pakistan, Charles B. Cushwa Jr., president, reports to company directors.

1937: Joe Dallet, former Communist candidate for mayor of Youngstown and local Communist organizer, is among a party of Spanish Loyalist volunteers detained by French authorities at Perpignan, France. As many as 10 other Youngstowners may have gone to Spain to join the Loyalists.

Despite bad weather, shoppers throng downtown Youngstown stores for what store executives say is the best pre-Easter sale since 1929.