YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, March 5, the 65th day of 2016. There are 301 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1766: Antonio de Ulloa arrives in New Orleans to assume his duties as the first Spanish governor of the Louisiana Territory, where he encounters resistance from the French residents.

1770: The Boston Massacre takes place as British soldiers who’d been taunted by a crowd of colonists open fire, killing five people.

1868: The U.S. Senate is organized into a Court of Impeachment to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson, who later was acquitted.

1933: In German parliamentary elections, the Nazi Party wins 44 percent of the vote; the Nazis join with a conservative nationalist party to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.

1946: Winston Churchill delivers his “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., in which he says: “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an ‘iron curtain’ has descended across the continent, allowing police governments to rule Eastern Europe.”

1953: Soviet dictator Josef Stalin dies after three decades in power.

1963: Country music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins die in the crash of their plane, a Piper Comanche, near Camden, Tenn., along with pilot Randy Hughes (Cline’s manager).

1970: The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after 43 nations ratified it.

1982: Comedian John Belushi is found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was 33.

2006: AT&T announces it is buying BellSouth Corp., a big step toward resurrecting the old Ma Bell telephone system.

“Crash” wins the Best Picture Academy Award in an upset over “Brokeback Mountain”; Philip Seymour Hoffman wins Best Actor for “Capote,” and Reese Witherspoon wins Best Actress for “Walk the Line.”

2011: Egyptians turn their anger toward ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s internal security apparatus, storming the agency’s main headquarters and other offices.

2015: The U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, is slashed in the face and arm by an assailant in Seoul.

Convicted murderer Jodi Arias is spared the death penalty as a jury in Phoenix votes 11-1 in favor of execution – not enough to send Arias to death row for the slaying of her lover, Travis Alexander.

Islamic State militants continue their campaign targeting cultural heritage sites in territories they control in northern Iraq, bulldozing the historic city of Nimrud.

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1991: Four Youngstown State University football players are charged in connection with the purported off-campus sexual assault of a woman after a wet-T-shirt contest at a Lincoln Avenue bar.

Youngstown Fire Chief Hector Colon says he’ll close Fire Station 15 on the city’s West Side unless his budget is increased by $353,000.

John Clacko, 25, of Youngstown is rescued by a passing motorist after he flipped his car and was thrown into 3 feet of icy water alongside the ramp connecting state Route 11 northbound with Interstate 80.

1976: Edward J. DeBartolo, Youngstown developer who oversees a multimillion-dollar empire of shopping centers, racetracks and other commercial real estate, has acquired in excess of 160,000 shares of GF Business Equipment common stock, making him the largest single stockholder in the company.

Lynda Johnson Robb, elder daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, talks about life in the White House during the Junior League’s Town Hall Lecture Series attended by 2,000 at Powers Auditorium.

Leonard Sandy, 26, of Central YMCA, falls into a 3-foot hole in the Elephant Bridge at Wilson Avenue and East Federal Street and is saved from falling 45 feet to the ground below by a piece of reinforcing rod.

1966: William R. Hill, superintendent of water- pollution control for Youngstown, recommends creation of a single sewer authority that would stretch from Warren to Lowellville.

Russell Trefort, who patrols the Meander Reservoir, reports a harbinger of spring: Eight snow geese stop over on their way north.

Services take place for Spec. 4 Paul E. Helsel Jr. of Youngstown, who was killed in South Vietnam when a grenade exploded.

1941: A survey of letter carriers shows that Youngstown’s housing shortage is more severe than in any major city in Ohio. Only 160 vacant homes are found in the city, which experts say should have about 2,500 to allow for normal tenant turnover.

The U.S. Senate considers creating a federal judgeship for Youngstown, which has not had one since Judge Samuel West died two years ago.

Howard Winfield of Girard, who enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force, is in training at Picton, Ontario.