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Today is Monday, March 30, the 89th day of 2015. There are 276 days left in the year.

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1135: The Jewish philosopher Maimonides is born in Cordoba in present-day Spain.

1867: U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward reaches agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million.

1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits denying citizens the right to vote and hold office on the basis of race, is declared in effect by U.S. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish.

Texas is readmitted to the Union.

1909: The Queensboro Bridge, linking the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, opens.

1923: The Cunard liner RMS Laconia becomes the first passenger ship to circle the globe as it arrives in New York.

1945: During World War II, the Soviet Union invades Austria with the goal of taking Vienna, which it accomplishes two weeks later.

1955: “On the Waterfront” wins the Academy Award for best picture of 1954, while its star, Marlon Brando wins best actor; in what is regarded as an upset, Grace Kelly wins best actress for “The Country Girl,” beating out Judy Garland for “A Star Is Born.”

1959: A narrowly divided U.S. Supreme Court, in Bartkus v. Illinois, rules that a conviction in state court following an acquittal in federal court for the same crime does not constitute double jeopardy.

1964: John Glenn withdraws from the Ohio race for the U.S. Senate because of injuries suffered in a fall.

The original version of the TV game show “Jeopardy!,” hosted by Art Fleming, debuts on NBC.

1975: As the Vietnam War nears its end, Communist forces occupy the city of Da Nang.

James Ruppert, 41, kills 11 members of his family at his mother’s home in Hamilton, Ohio, on Easter.

1981: President Ronald Reagan is shot and seriously wounded outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by assailant John W. Hinckley Jr.

2002: Britain’s Queen Mother Elizabeth dies at Royal Lodge, Windsor, outside London; she was 101 years old.

2005: Under heavy protection, U.S. first lady Laura Bush visits the capital of Afghanistan, where she talks with Afghan women freed from Taliban repression and urges greater rights.

2010: President Obama signs a single measure sealing his health care overhaul and making the government the primary lender to students by cutting banks out of the process.

2014: Four hours of talks in Paris between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov fail to break a tense East-West deadlock over the crisis in Ukraine.

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1990: Speaking at a Women’s History Month program at Youngstown State University, Ohio First Lady Dagmar Celeste says the United States lags behind the rest of the industrialized world in the provision of child care.

The Mahoning County Board of Health adopts new regulations aimed at reducing the chances of lead poisoning, particularly among children. The regulations give the department the power to inspect houses suspected of containing hazardous levels of lead-base paint and to require a cleanup.

Trumbull and Geauga county health officials are fighting an outbreak of measles, with 17 of the 18 cases found among the Amish population.

1975: Forest S. Beckett, Youngstown aviation executive, says shortages of investment capital and obstacles thrown up by environmentalists may prove barriers to President Gerald Ford’s drive to make the U.S. self- sufficient in energy.

The late Andy Renaldy, the only local man to win the ABC singles championship, is elected to the Youngstown Men’s Bowling Association Hall of Fame, along with Christie Guerrieri, Donald Leonhart and Frank Caruso Sr.

“Tell Us Where to Go,” a campaign to learn the transportation of Youngstowners before revising routes and services, is launched by the Western Reserve Transit Authority.

1965: Ch. Ammon Hall Judas, an Afghan hound known as Sinbad when not competing, wins best of show at the 28th Mahoning-Shenango Kennel Club dog show. Sinbad is owned by Dr. Joseph Pois of Pittsburgh.

Andrew A. DePaul and Ron Lee Lane are honored by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. for 25 years of service.

The Youngstown Automobile Club arranges for Youngstown University faculty members to have license plates with the letters YU to go with this year’s plate colors, red and white.

1940: The Hubbard Public Library holds an open house at its new quarters in the high school building. In less than three years, the library has grown from a few dusty boxes of donated books in a corner of City Hall to a facility housing 3,500 books and equal to those of other communities of similar size.

John Gessner, son of Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge and Mrs. George H. Gessner and a graduate of South High School, is elected president of Hiram College.

Youngstown Municipal Judge Harry C. Hoffman tells a 31-year-old Emerson Place man who admitted beating a 71-year-old invalid and the man’s 40-year-old sister-in-law that, “I am sorry we have no whipping posts in Ohio for men like you.” He sentenced the man to 90 days in jail for striking the woman, but delayed imposition of a sentence for breaking the jaw of Albert Birch.