Today is Monday, March 17, the 76th day of 2014. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St.

Today is Monday, March 17, the 76th day of 2014. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick’s Day.

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On this date in:

1762: New York’s first St. Patrick’s Day parade takes place.

1776: British forces evacuate Boston during the Revolutionary War.

1861: Victor Emmanuel II is proclaimed the first king of a united Italy.

1906: President Theodore Roosevelt first likens crusading journalists to a man with “the muckrake in his hand” in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington.

1912: The Camp Fire Girls organization is incorporated in Washington, D.C., two years to the day after it was founded in Thetford, Vt. (The group is now known as Camp Fire USA.)

1943: The Taoiseach of Ireland, Eamon de Valera, delivers a radio speech about “The Ireland That We Dreamed Of.”

1950: Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley announce they have created a new radioactive element, “californium.”

1959: The Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India in the wake of a failed uprising by Tibetans against Chinese rule.

1966: A U.S. midget submarine locates a missing hydrogen bomb which had fallen from an American bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain.

1969: Golda Meir becomes prime minister of Israel.

1970: The United States casts its first veto in the U.N. Security Council. (The U.S. killed a resolution that would have condemned Britain for failure to use force to overthrow the white-ruled government of Rhodesia.)

1973: U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm, a freed prisoner of the Vietnam War, is joyously greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in California in a scene captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photograph.

1988: Avianca Flight 410, a Boeing 727, crashes after takeoff into a mountain in Colombia, killing all 143 people on board.

2004: A car bomb tears apart the five-story Mount Lebanon Hotel catering to foreigners in the heart of Baghdad, killing seven people.

Former MTV personality John “J.J.” Jackson dies in Los Angeles at age 62.

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1989: A North Side man, Larry Dixon, 30, coughs up a bullet from his left lung, three months after being shot five times near the Westlake Terrace housing project.

After losing 1.5 million gallons of water as the result of a line break, the city of Hubbard asks residents to curb unnecessary use of water until reserves are back to normal.

Ohio tavern owners applaud a change in state law that will allow Sunday sales of liquor at 10 a.m., rather than 1 p.m.

1974: A number of Mahoning Valley firms are supporting President Richard Nixon’s proposal to give Russia most- favored-nation trade status, including Wean United, Ajax Magnethermic Corp., E.W. Bliss Co., Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and U.S. Steel Corp.

Marvin H. Itts, prominent civic leaders and chairman of the board of Saramar Aluminum Co., will receive the national B’nai B’rith’s Guardian of the Menorah award.

Eighty-seven Scouts and leaders from the Mahoning Valley Council of Boy Scouts will camp for two weeks during the summer at Philmont, the national Scout ranch in New Mexico.

1964: The Youngstown Board of Education adopts a record appropriation of $13.7 million for 1964, an increase of $1.2 million over a year earlier.

Dr. J. Harry Wanamaker, Superintendent of Youngstown schools, gets a salary increase from $20,500 to $22,000. His salary will increase to $25,000 by the end of a five-year contract.

Mahoning County’s unemployed workers were paid $6.8 million in 1963 by the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation, making the county fifth among Ohio’s 88 counties for payments received.

1939: Declaring “it’s the job of everyone who owns property in the valley, who makes a living here to fight for the canal,” Congressman Michael J. Kirwan urges the hiring of a powerful lobby to go to Washington, D.C., to fight for a Lake Erie-Ohio River canal.

Republic Steel Corp. is starting a third blast furnace at its Lansingville plant to meet increased demands for hot iron for its steel-making units.

Eleven knock-outs and plenty of toe-to-toe slugging mark the third session of the Knights of Columbus “Golden Gloves” tournament before 1,700 fans at the Rayen-Woods Auditorium.