Today is Monday, March 16, the 75th day of 2015. There are 290 days left in the year.

March 16, 2015 at 12:00a.m.

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On this date in:

1802: President Thomas Jefferson signs a measure authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.

1915: The Federal Trade Commission, created in 1914, begins operations.

1926: Rocket science pioneer Robert H. Goddard successfully tests the first liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Mass.

1935: Adolf Hitler decides to break the military terms set by the Treaty of Versailles by ordering the rearming of Germany.

1945: During World War II, American forces declare they have secured Iwo Jima, although pockets of Japanese resistance remain.

1965: Peace activist Alice Herz, 82, sets herself ablaze on a Detroit street corner to protest the Vietnam War; she died 10 days later.

1968: During the Vietnam War, the My Lai Massacre of Vietnamese civilians is carried out by U.S. Army troops; estimates of the death toll vary between 347 and 504.

1974: The Grand Ole Opry House opens in Nashville with a concert attended by President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat.

1984: William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, is kidnapped by Hezbollah militants (he was tortured by his captors and killed in 1985).

1985: Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, is abducted in Beirut; he was released in December 1991.

1990: Two movies that sought to capitalize on the lambada dance craze, “Lambada” and “The Forbidden Dance,” are released the same day.

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1990: John Middlebrook, the new general manager of the Pontiac Motors Division of General Motors, wants GM’s Lordstown Complex to boost production of the Pontiac Sunbird, one of GM’s hottest selling cars.

Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro is stepping up efforts to lure Toys R Us to build a new warehouse off Salt Springs Road, rather than in Lordstown.

Girard Lake and Lake Evans, near North Lima, both pay-to-fish lakes, are each stocked with 1,200 pounds of rainbow trout.

1975: Two agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service will spend a week in Youngstown and Canton checking out leads that illegal aliens are working in the area, thus depriving American citizens of jobs.

The American Indian is the focus of an exhibit at the Butler Institute of American Art. A special exhibit of native artifacts from the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh will supplement Butler’s collection of paintings, which includes “Spotted Elk” painted by Henry H. Cross in 1879.

Bob Commings, a Youngstown native who completed a successful first year as head football coach at Iowa University, will speak at the Youngstown Steel Pro Banquet, which honors men and women who work in the Youngstown steel industry.

1965: The state plans to purchase 890 additional acres of land at Mosquito Lake, giving it a total of 1,326 acres. Eventually, 15,000 acres will be acquired to support a fall flock of 15,000 Canada geese.

John J. Kane of Elm Street, founder of Kane Secret Service, dies at his home at the age of 96.

1940: A suit filed during the summer of 1939 by Herbert F. Bodine, a former city vice cop against the “Big House” numbers lottery in the city seeking to recover losses on behalf of all gamblers, is dismissed by Judge Erskine Maiden Jr., on the grounds that Bodine didn’t have standing to pursue the suit.

The Mahoning County Board of Elections receives candidacy petitions from 58 Democrats and 55 Republicans for the May primary elections, including two Democrats and three Republicans seeking the congressional seat held by Michael J. Kirwan.

Youngstown Water Commissioner Innocenzo Vagnozzi says that his department will have no alternative but to discontinue water service to houses occupied by indigent families when bills become delinquent because the health department has not paid on $11,000 in outstanding bills.