Years Ago

Today is Sunday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2014. There are 283 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1775: Patrick Henry delivers an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is said to have declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

1806: Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, begin their journey back east.

1914: The first installment of “The Perils of Pauline,” the legendary silent film serial starring Pearl White, premieres at theaters in the greater New York City area, including movie houses in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

1919: Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy.

1933: The German Reichstag adopts the Enabling Act, which effectively grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.

1942: The first Japanese-Americans evacuated by the U.S. Army during World War II arrive at the internment camp in Manzanar, Calif.

1956: Pakistan becomes an Islamic republic.

1964: Actor Peter Lorre, 59, dies in Los Angeles.

1973: Before sentencing a group of Watergate break-in defendants, Chief U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica reads aloud a letter to him from James W. McCord Jr. which says there had been “political pressure” to “plead guilty and remain silent.”

1983: President Ronald Reagan first proposes developing technology to intercept incoming enemy missiles — an idea that comes to be known as the Strategic Defense Initiative.

Dr. Barney Clark, recipient of a Jarvik permanent artificial heart, dies at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112 days with the device.

1994: Aeroflot Flight 593, an Airbus A310, crashes in Siberia with the loss of all 75 people on board; it turns out the teenage son of a pilot who was allowed to sit at the controls accidentally disengaged the autopilot, causing the jetliner to plunge to the ground.

Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexico’s leading presidential candidate, is assassinated during a rally in Tijuana.

Wayne Gretzky breaks Gordie Howe’s National Hockey League career record with his 802nd goal.

2010: President Barack Obama signs a $938 billion health care overhaul, declaring “a new season in America.”

2011: Academy Award-winning actress Elizabeth Taylor dies in Los Angeles at age 79.

VINDICATOR FILES

1989: An angry crowd shows up at Warren City Council to protest a newly opened BFI incinerator that burns medical waste.

The former Petersburg Creamery on state Route 170 just north of I-76 is destroyed by fire, with the loss estimated at between $2 million and $3 million.

More than 122 million pounds of poisonous chemicals were released by Ohio factories in 1987, an EPA report says, making Ohio air dirtier than any other Great Lakes state.

1974: Mine Foreman Paul Mick, 31, and John Griffith, 17, are killed when a 16-ton bucket loader overturns and crushes them at a strip mine near Salineville.

Eugene P. O’Grady, Ohio highway safety director on leave to head Ohioans for Gilligan, tells the Downtown Kiwanis Club that Youngstown is a model for how cities should pursue urban renewal.

Freight trains would have to have crews of either four or five members under an Ohio House bill sponsored by Rep. George D. Tablack of Campbell, D-52nd.

1964: Army 1st Lt. Patricia M. Bender, 25, of Sharon, Pa., dies at the Fort Bragg, S.C., base hospital of injuries received in an automobile accident on the base.

Congressman Michael J. Kirwan receives the Eagles Humanitarian Award at the 62nd anniversary celebration of Youngstown Aerie 213.

1939: Bishop and Mrs. Wilbur E. Hammaker return from three years in China and are greeted by a crowd of 1,300 jammed into Trinity Methodist Church, but are impatient to return to their missionary work in the war-torn country.

Frank E. Cailor, Mahoning County treasurer, says Gov. John W. Bricker has signed the Whittemore act, providing for the payment of delinquent taxes and assessments over a period of 10 years at 4 percent interest, but eliminating all penalties prior to 1937.

Jack McClafferty, 24, of 31 Sycamore Street, leaves Youngstown to resume duty on the U.S.S. Arizona as a boatswain’s mate.