YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, March 3, the 62nd day of 2015. There are 303 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1845: Florida becomes the 27th state.

1849: The U.S. Department of the Interior is established.

1913: More than 5,000 suffragists march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., a day before the presidential inauguration of Woodrow Wilson.

1923: Time magazine, founded by Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce, makes its debut.

1931: “The Star-Spangled Banner” becomes the national anthem of the United States as President Herbert Hoover signs a congressional resolution.

1934: Bank robber John Dillinger escapes from the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Ind., along with another prisoner, Herbert Youngblood.

1940: Artie Shaw and his orchestra record “Frenesi” for RCA Victor.

1945: The Allies fully secure the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese forces during World War II.

1969: The United States launches the Pioneer 4 spacecraft, which flies by the moon.

Comedian Lou Costello dies in East Los Angeles three days before his 53rd birthday.

1969: Apollo 9 blasts off from Cape Kennedy on a mission to test the lunar module.

1974: A Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashes shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris, killing all 346 people on board.

1991: Motorist Rodney King is severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video.

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1990: Browning-Ferris Industries will begin curbside recycling April 1 for its customers in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

Austintown Township trustees are contesting the allocation of state Issue 2 funds and gasoline tax revenues in a move that could delay the state’s distribution of funds in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

American voters, by the widest margin since the Watergate scandal of 1973, favor some form of public financing for congressional campaigns and show overwhelming support for spending limits on U.S. House races.

1975: Two men are shot and killed at a party at 1112 Howard Way on New Castle, Pa.’s South Side, and a third man is being sought. Dead are Franklin Moyer, 35, of Union Township and Thomas Borders, 42, of Farrell.

Two inmates, one 14 and one 15 years old, are injured when a mattress is set afire at the Juvenile Research Center on Parkwood Avenue.

Daniel Riddle, 21, winner of the Youngstown Symphony Society’s 1974-75 Piano Concerto Awards Competition, entertains and delights more than 1,200 people at the annual Family Day Concert at Powers Auditorium.

1965: Sheriff Ray T. Davis, his lieutenant, Orly DiLullo, and city Detective Carmen Bruno conduct a raid on a Poland Township home that may have broken up a burglary ring. They found 223 items of men’s clothing taken from a burglary at Lawrence Tailors on Mahoning Ave. and 206 items of women’s apparel taken from the Bailey Store in the McGuffey Plaza.

The United States Naval Reserve begins observing its 50th anniversary. Capt. Elton Shaw, commanding officer of the USNR Training Center on E. LaClede Ave., says Youngstown reservists have served in all the nation’s wars during that half century. .

1940: Joseph G. Butler III, spokesman for the Buechner estate, says a 61-room, 4-story building costing $200,000 will be built on the Wells property on Bryson Street at Spring Street to provide a home for girls and women, fulfilling a provision in the will of Miss Lucy Buechner, who died in 1927.

In its efforts to attract new industry to Youngstown, the Chamber of Commerce is citing a tax rate that is far below many other manufacturing centers.

The old Hitchcock homestead at Boardman Center, one of the oldest landmarks in Mahoning County, is slated for demolition by the Standard Oil Co, which will build a super service station on the site.