YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, March 7, the 66th day of 2015. There are 299 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1876: Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his telephone.

1926: The first successful trans- Atlantic radio-telephone conversations take place between New York and London.

1936: Adolf Hitler orders his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.

1965: A march by civil rights demonstrators is violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”

1975: The U.S. Senate revises its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.

1994: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered “fair use.” (The ruling concerned a parody of the Roy Orbison song “Oh, Pretty Woman” by the rap group 2 Live Crew.)

1999: Movie director Stanley Kubrick, whose films include “Dr. Strangelove,” “A Clockwork Orange” and “2001: A Space Odyssey,” dies in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70, having just finished editing “Eyes Wide Shut.”

2005: President George W. Bush nominates John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an appointment that ran into Democratic opposition, prompting Bush to make a recess appointment.

2010:: The Iraq war thriller “The Hurt Locker” receives six Academy Awards including best picture, with Kathryn Bigelow accepting the first directing Oscar awarded to a woman.

2014: Russia is swept up in patriotic fervor in anticipation of bringing Crimea back into its territory, with tens of thousands of people thronging Red Square in Moscow chanting, “Crimea is Russia!”

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: A body found in a West Side Salvation Army collection box is identified as John W. Wilson, 75, of South Avenue.

A large crowd, including a sizable delegation from the Mahoning Valley, packs the Statehouse rotunda to show support for a state-run health-care program backed by area representative Robert Hagan.

The St. David Society of Youngstown honors Nelson L. Llewellyn as Welsh Man of the Year and Mary Jane Lewis as Welsh Woman of the Year.

1975: An arson fire is averted at The Apartment, a popular Midlothian Boulevard nightclub, when a grocery shopper noticed a door was unlocked and smelled kerosene. Firemen found two candles in a cardboard box on top of a stack of kerosene soaked rags and papers.

Buddy Lambert, a Newton Falls steelworker, wins $300,000, the top prize in the televised Buckeye 300 lottery drawing.

Erma Bombeck, a popular columnist in The Vindicator, appears at Powers Auditorium, for the Junior League’s Town Hall series, and is greeted by several relatives form the area. Mrs. Nicholas Libertin of Campbell, Sister Phyllis Weaver of Erie, Pa., and Mrs. Edward Cattron of Sharon, Pa. are cousins, and Mrs. Teresa Weaver of Sharon is an aunt.

1965: Donna Megala and Gary Ross are voted Miss and Mr. Popularity at Youngstown State University at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Popularity Dance at the Pick Ohio Ballroom.

The construction contract for McKelvey’s new Parkade is given to Joseph Bucheit & Sons Construction Co.

1940: Henry Rochford, a member of the Youngstown police force for 20 years, is appointed to the detective squad by Police Chief John W. Turnbull.

Postmaster General James A. Farley is calling Mahoning County Democratic Party leaders seeking support for an Ohio delegation pledged to Farley for president at the national convention.

Youngstown police Chief John W. Turnbull plans to follow the lead of Cleveland in seeking to shut down bookie joints by taking legal action to cut their phone access to race results.