YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, March 31, the 90th day of 2015. There are 275 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1814: Paris is occupied by a coalition of Russian, Prussian and Austrian forces; the surrender of the French capital forces the abdication of Emperor Napoleon.

1889: French engineer Gustave Eiffel unfurls the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion.

1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Emergency Conservation Work Act, which creates the Civilian Conservation Corps.

1943: “Oklahoma!,” the first musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opens on Broadway.

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1990: Mahoning County officials are trying to stop SME Bessemer Cement Inc. from selling its inventory and equipment until the company pays more than $610,000 in delinquent property taxes.

Full-time students at Youngstown State University will be paying 9.4 percent more in tuition, bringing the charge for three quarters from $2,001 to $2,190.

The fortunes of Augmitto Explorations Ltd. and its shareholders — many in the Youngstown area — take a turn for the worse with the bankruptcy court’s appointment of a trustee to liquidate the Canadian gold-mining company’s assets.

1975: The 11th District Court of Appeals overturns a Trumbull County Common Pleas Court ruling that blocked Warren’s efforts to annex the 1,080-acre “Golden Triangle” from Bazetta and Howland townships.

Alex “Shonder “ Birns, reputed Cleveland numbers rackets king, is blown to pieces when a dynamite bomb explodes when he starts his Lincoln Continental behind a go-go bar.

1965: Youngstown’s three hospitals and the Tuberculosis Sanitarium are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals.

Prof. Jeno Takacs, who was on conservatory faculties in Hungary, Egypt and the Philippines, is scheduled for a recital at the Strouss Music Center by the Youngstown Music Teachers Association.

1940: The stork makes his first visit to the Westlake housing project, delivering a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Palcewski, one of the146 families who have moved in since Westlake opened Feb. 12.

Two hundred of Youngs-town’s leading women will join with the Junior Chamber of Commerce for the first time in promoting the sale of tickets for the 1940-41 Youngstown Symphony Orchestra.

The Youngstown Macaroni Co. opens its plant at 400 North Ave., where it employs 40 people producing a variety of 59 shapes of macaroni, from spaghetti to hollow sizes as big as a thumb. Operator Neil Toriello says the plant’s daily production will be about 560 cases of 20 pounds each.