YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2015. There are 292 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1743: A memorial service takes place at Faneuil Hall in Boston honoring Peter Faneuil, who had donated the building bearing his name.

1794: Eli Whitney receives a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionizes America’s cotton industry.

1923: President Warren G. Harding becomes the first chief executive to file an income tax return, paying a levy of $17,990 on his $75,000 salary.

1939: The republic of Czechoslovakia is dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation of Czech areas and the separation of Slovakia.

1951: During the Korean War, United Nations forces recapture Seoul.

1964: A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, and sentences him to death. (Both the conviction and death sentence were overturned, but Ruby died before he could be retried.)

1967: The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery.

1975: “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” a sendup of the legend of King Arthur, has its world premiere in Los Angeles.

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1990: Jerry Olsavsky, linebacker with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Michael Zordich, defensive back with the Phoenix Cardinals, both Chaney graduates, share the speakers podium at the Curbstone Coaches luncheon.

The Canfield Fair Board is considering a recommendation that it silence the public address announcements at the fair, which raise about $2,000 a year for youth activities based on a 25-cent charge for each announcement. There have been complaints about the almost-constant announcements.

Mahoning County commissioners vote to close Lanterman’s Falls Bridge on Youngstown’s South Side for a $1.3 million rehabilitation project.

1975: Citing the need for extensive repairs to South High School, the Youngstown Citizens Review Committee recommends construction of a new building.

Several hundred steelworkers in Youngstown area plants are being laid off with district operations dropping to about 75 percent of capacity as a general softening hits the basic steel industry.

Youngstown police arrest three men in a restaurant on suspicion of arson shortly after a fire erupts in a car repair garage behind the Hollywood Auto Supply Co. at 1221 Market St.

1965: Mrs. Wilbur T. Blair, Volney Nursing Home, a leader in the Presbyterian Church, dies of a stroke at age 83. She was active in church activities, community boards and the Society for the Blind.

Ross Wales, Rayen School senior, breaks the national record for the 100-yard butterfly event at a Columbus swimming competition. His time was 52.2.

1940: Nearly 70,000 parents and teachers in Northeast Ohio are represented by 1,500 delegates attending the 18th annual district conference of the Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers being held at South High School.

Fifty-year pins are presented to five men by the Western Star Masonic Lodge at the Youngstown Masonic Temple. They are Mose Frankle, Alex Finnie, Carroll Thornton, William N. Harris, Freeman F. Fusselman and John G. Goeltz.

Francis F. Herr, 62, former principal of Rayen School and one of the best-known teachers in Youngstown for 35 years, dies of pneumonia in Canandaigua, N.Y., to which he retired in 1939.