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Today is Saturday, March 28, the 87th day of 2015. There are 278 days left in the year.

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1515: St. Teresa of Avila is born Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada.

1834: The U.S. Senate votes to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.

1854: During the Crimean War, Britain and France declare war on Russia.

1898: The Supreme Court, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, rules that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants is a U.S. citizen.

1930: The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora are changed to Istanbul and Ankara.

1935: The notorious Nazi propaganda film “Triumph des Willens” (Triumph of the Will), directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premieres in Berlin with Adolf Hitler present.

1941: Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf, 59, drowns herself near her home in Lewes, East Sussex, England.

1955: John Marshall Harlan II is sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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1990: Army Air Force Gen. Paul W. Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, tells students at Lordstown High School that bombing ended World War II, and given the same conditions, he wouldn’t hesitate to do it again.

Continental Plants Corp. has purchased much of the equipment at GF’s Youngstown plant and will resell it at a two-day auction in May, about two months after GF transferred production to a plant in Gallatin, Tenn.

The South High Band Boosters open a campaign to raise $20,000 to purchase new uniforms for the band, majorettes, dance line and flag line.

1975: Olmstead Township police say they will “definitely file charges” against a 15-year-old student at Fairhaven School for Mentally Retarded Children who called a North Olmstead businessman’s home and attempted to extort $10,000 with a threat to the man’s daughter. The boy stayed on the phone for 90 minutes while the call was traced, and Trumbull deputies arrived to arrest him.

U.S. Steel Corp. announces that it will open a second blast furnace at its Ohio Works, which will return about 100 furloughed men to their jobs.

Bishop John H. Burt of the Cleveland Episcopal Diocese, says he will celebrate communion with the Rev. Jane Hwang, a visiting woman priest who was ordained by the Hong Kong Diocese. The announcement comes at a time when the Rev. L. Peter Beebe of Oberlin is being tried by a church court for allowing two “irregularly ordained” women to join a communion celebration.

1965: Donald J. Libert, Katahdin Drive, Poland, a member of the law firm of Machester, Bennett, Powers & Ullman, joins the legal department of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Robert Lobdell, Poland Manor, former assistant secretary, will leave S&T to become assistant general counsel of Times-Mirror Co., Los Angeles.

The second annual Steel City Intercollegiate Debate Tournament held at Youngstown University attracts 20 teams from 15 colleges and universities. Capitol University wins in the first round.

1940: Helen Jepson, Metropolitan Opera star who will appear in concert with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra at Stambaugh Auditorium, is honored at a luncheon at the Youngstown Club give by the Women’s Committee of the Youngstown Symphony Society.

Two Youngstown legislators, state Sen. Maurice Lipscher and J. Ralph Seidner Sr., are among 29 members of the 91st General Assembly who will have to return mileage payments to the state following a ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court. Lipscher must return $302 and Seidner, $257.