YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, March 5, the 64th day of 2015. There are 301 days left in the year.

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1766: Antonio de Ulloa arrives in New Orleans to assume his duties as the first Spanish governor of the Louisiana Territory, where he encounteres resistance from the French residents.

1770: The Boston Massacre takes place as British soldiers who’d been taunted by a crowd of colonists open fire, killing five people.

1868: The Senate is organized into a Court of Impeachment to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson, who was later acquitted.

1933: In German parliamentary elections, the Nazi Party wins 44 percent of the vote; the Nazis join with a conservative nationalist party to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.

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1990: Youngstown City Council’s travel budget has almost tripled in three years, from $8,159 in 1986 to $22,229 in 1989, with council members traveling to New York City, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and Denver for conferences or on fact-finding missions.

Bishop James W. Malone, who turns 70 March 8, says he is enjoying good health and intends to continue leading the Youngstown Catholic Diocese for the next five years.

The owner of the former Holiday Inn MetroPlex in Liberty Township asks U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge William T. Bodoh to reject a $4 million cash offer for the hotel and convention center.

1975: General Motors Corp. announces plans to close its Chevrolet van plant at Lordstown for one week beginning March 17 because of a decline in sales. The move will idle 2,500 workers.

Susan Elaine Wright, 17, a Hubbard High School senior who ranks sixth in her class, is named Ohio’s Outstanding Handicapped Student of the Year. The legally blind student writes stories for the school newspaper and two community newspapers.

Youngstown racketeer Joey Naples and a 31-year-old Austintown township cement contractor are charged with complicity in the gangland slaying on Feb. 19 of Carl Netolicky of Lake Milton.

1965: The Warren Harding High School Panthers come from behind in the final two minutes to edge out Austintown Fitch, 63-61, to clinch the upper-bracket title in a Class AA sectional tournament thriller at South High Field House. .

Carl F. Gangloff, 64, of Hubbard, executive director of the Youngs-town Area Development Foundation, dies in Mansfield General Hospital a week after undergoing surgery.

1940: Mahoning County commissioners, the Mahoning County Medical Society and Dr. E.E. Kirkwood, superintendent of the Mahoning Tuberculosis Sanatorium, are all of the opinion that additional staff is needed to provide appropriate medical care for indigents at the hospital.

Lake Milton, for many months an expanse of muddy banks, is once again a broad lake, with a foot and a half of water pouring over its spillway as a result of heavy rains and melting snow and ice. Meander Reservoir and other area lakes also are full.

Atty. Dominic Rendinell puts Law Director John A. Willo on notice that a taxpayer lawsuit will be filed against the city unless it stops issuing licenses for marble boards. Willo says the city issues the licenses for pin boards on the basis that they are games of skill and is not responsible if some people use them for the purposes of gambling.