YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, March 1, the 60th day of 2015. There are 305 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1565: The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded by Portuguese knight Estacio de Sa.

1790: President George Washington signs a measure authorizing the first U.S. Census.

1815: Napoleon, having escaped exile in Elba, arrives in Cannes, France, and head for Paris to begin his “Hundred Days” rule.

1890: J.P. Lippincott publishes the first U.S. edition of the Sherlock Holmes mystery “A Study in Scarlet” by Arthur Conan Doyle.

1932: Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Ann Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. (Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.)

1940: “Native Son” by Richard Wright is first published by Harper & Brothers.

1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, back from the Yalta Conference, proclaims the meeting a success as he addresses a joint session of Congress.

1954: Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire from the spectators’ gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five members of Congress.

The United States detonates a dry-fuel hydrogen bomb, code-named Castle Bravo, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

1961: President John F. Kennedy signs an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.

1971: A bomb goes off inside a men’s room at the U.S. Capitol; the radical group Weather Underground claims responsibility for the pre-dawn blast.

1981: Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later.

1995: The Internet search engine website Yahoo! is incorporated by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo.

2005: Dennis Rader, the churchgoing family man accused of leading a double life as the BTK serial killer, is charged in Wichita, Kan., with 10 counts of first-degree murder. (Rader pleaded guilty and received multiple life sentences.)

A divided Supreme Court outlaws the death penalty for juvenile criminals.

2010: Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, defending himself against charges of Europe’s worst genocide since the Holocaust, tells judges in his slow-moving trial that he was not the barbarian depicted by U.N. prosecutors, but was protecting his people against a fundamentalist Muslim plot.

Jay Leno returns as host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show.”

2014: Russian troops take over Crimea as the parliament in Moscow gives President Vladimir Putin the green light to use the military to protect Russian interests in Ukraine.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: The U.S Supreme Court upholds Pennsylvania’s death penalty, 5-4, finding that the law allows juries sufficient discretion when deciding the death penalty.

Nature’s Bounty Inc. may relocate its proposed $3 million vitamin plant from North Jackson to Lordstown because of difficulty in having a waterline extended from Youngstown to the 20-acre site on Bailey Road.

Virginia Whittington, president of the Greater Youngstown National Organization for Women, withdraws her petition for the May 8 Democratic primary, which would have had her challenging the incumbent, state Rep. Joseph J. Vukovich III of Poland, D-52nd.

1975: Three men suspected of holding up the McDonald’s restaurant at 15 Boardman-Canfield Road are arrested a short time later at the Southern Park Mall by Boardman police and Mahoning sheriff’s deputies.

Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter criticizes U.S. District Judge Thomas Lambros for releasing racketeer Joey Naples and six associates on probation after they pleaded guilty to charges of running a numbers business.

The Youngstown-Warren Metropolitan Area can expect 1,500 housing units constructed or rehabilitated by the private sector over the next three years because of Section 8 money it will receive through the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.

1965: Two youths are stabbed and a third shot in incidents at Reed’s Roller Arena, formerly Mac’s Roller Rink, at Oak Hill and Marshall streets.

Steel magazine reports that shipments of finished steel, which set a record of 2.7 million tons during the week ending Feb. 20, are expected to continue at high levels through April.

1940: Frances Payne Bingham Bolton, a Republican elected to Congress to fill the unexpired term of her late husband, Chester C. Bolton in Ohio’s 22nd District, says there is one cause she is for above all others, “That is to keep this country out of war.” The first woman elected to Congress from Ohio notes that she has two sons in the Ohio National Guard.

Lincoln H. Lippincott, traffic safety authority from Chicago, tells the Youngstown Real Estate Board and Kiwanis Club that Ohio motorists could avert 300 deaths and save millions in cash a year by pledging not to drive over 50 mph.

The March lion tiptoes into the Youngstown area with temperatures near freezing and only a light dusting of snow, apparently unable to decide whether to roar or purr.