YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Thursday, March 3, the 63rd day of 2016. There are 303 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1845: Florida becomes the 27th state.

1849: The U.S. Department of the Interior is established.

1913: More than 5,000 suffragists march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., a day before the presidential inauguration of Woodrow Wilson.

1923: Time magazine, founded by Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce, makes its debut.

1931: “The Star-Spangled Banner” becomes the national anthem of the United States as President Herbert Hoover signs a congressional resolution.

1934: Bank robber John Dillinger escapes from the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Ind., along with another prisoner, Herbert Youngblood.

1945: The Allies fully secure the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese forces during World War II.

1959: The United States launches the Pioneer 4 spacecraft, which flies by the moon.

1974: A Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashes shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris, killing all 346 people on board.

1985: Coal miners in Britain vote to end a yearlong strike that proved to be the longest and most violent walkout in British history.

1991: Motorist Rodney King is severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video.

1996: Israel declares “total war” against the militant group Hamas after a bus bomb in Jerusalem kills 19 people, including the bomber, the third such suicide attack in eight days.

2006: President George W. Bush arrives in Pakistan to meet with top officials, including President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, to discuss the war on terror.

2011: Seeking to repair damaged relations, President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon agree during a White House meeting to deepen their cooperation in combating drug violence and declare a breakthrough in efforts to end a long-standing dispute over cross-border trucking.

2015: In a direct challenge to the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands before Congress and bluntly warns the U.S. that an emerging nuclear agreement with Iran would pave “Iran’s path to the bomb.”

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: Warren City Auditor Anthony Iannucci says he will recommend state legislation setting qualifications for municipal treasurers and auditors.

Coach Ed DiGregorio’s YSU women’s basketball team ends its regular season with a victory over Missouri-Kansas City, 60-51, and a season record of 24-4.

Ohio State University President Gordon Gee says the university no longer can be all things to all people and must invest in programs that are strong and show the promise of great achievement.

1976: Citing manpower reductions in his department, Warren Fire Chief Bruce LaBaugh orders the closing of the Parkman Road Fire Station.

Freight cars in a 17-car train derail on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks over the Marshall Street overpass near Oak Hill Avenue. Two of the cars were tipped at dangerous angles on the overpass.

Fifty-seven physicians and dentists are honored by the Youngstown Hospital Association clinical staff for having 25 or more years of service or as recent retirees. Dr. Edward A. Shorten is installed as the new president of the clinical staff.

1966: If Congress approves, Youngstown will be one of six cities in a $7 million system used to coordinate warnings of impending natural disasters. The idea was prompted by the Palm Sunday 1965 tornadoes that swept through the Midwest.

Anti-meningitis pills are given to 3,000 people, most of them construction workers at the General Motors plant in Lords-town, after a Girard man who worked there died of the highly contagious disease.

Sharon General Hospital raises its top daily rate for a private room to $26; semiprivate, $22. Shenango Valley Osteopathic will bill $28.50 for a private room; $21.50 for semiprivate.

1941: Youngstown City Council, irked at the board of control’s failure to purchase new parking meters for downtown, proposes new legislation that would make the purchase mandatory.

Seventy-three Hi-Y Club boys take over operation of Youngstown for a day. Karl Soller of South High School is the mayor.

Arrest of three teenagers by Warren police on burglary charges leads to the arrest of a 24-year-old man and two women on charges of fencing stolen goods.