YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, March 7, the 67th day of 2016. There are 299 days left in the year.

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1793: During the French Revolutionary Wars, France declares war on Spain.

1850: In a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts endorses the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.

1876: Alexander Graham Bell receives a U.S. patent for his telephone.

1926: The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations take place between New York and London.

1936: Adolf Hitler orders his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.

1965: A march by civil-rights demonstrators is violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”

1975: The U.S. Senate revises its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.

1981: Anti-government guerrillas in Colombia execute kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Bitterman, whom they’d accused of being a CIA agent.

1994: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered “fair use.” (The ruling concerned a parody of the Roy Orbison song “Oh, Pretty Woman” by the rap group 2 Live Crew.)

2001: Ariel Sharon is sworn in as Israel’s prime minister, serving until he suffered a stroke in 2006.

VINDICATOR FILES

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

Ohio State University President Gordon Gee says the university can no longer 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. 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 Lordstown, 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; semi-private, $22. Shenango Valley Osteopathic will bill $28.50 for a private room; $21.50 for semi-private.

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.