YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, March 13, the 73rd day of 2016. There are 293 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1781: The seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, is discovered by Sir William Herschel.

1845: Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64, has its premiere in Leipzig, Germany.

1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis signs a measure allowing black slaves to enlist in the Confederate States Army with the promise they would be set free.

1901: The 23rd President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, dies in Indianapolis at age 67.

1925: The Tennessee General Assembly approves a bill prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. (Gov. Austin Peay signed the measure on March 21.)

1933: Banks in the U.S. begin to reopen after a “holiday” declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1946: U.S. Army Pfc. Sadao Munemori is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for sacrificing himself to save fellow soldiers from a grenade explosion in Seravezza, Italy; he was the only Japanese-American service member so recognized in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

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1991: Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro asks the law department to come up with a plan for augmenting the police department with auxiliary officers and the fire department with volunteer firefighters.

Mahoning County Sheriff Edward Nemeth says layoffs he is planning will necessitate the closing of one floor of the Mahoning County Jail and will greatly curtail patrols in outlying areas.

Six months after Donald McGowan, 66, abruptly resigned as chairman of Ohio Bancorp, shareholders are being asked to approve a company by-law mandating a retirement age of 65.

1976: Two Youngstown patrolmen, Tim Maloney and Robert Jones, are treated for injuries suffered when they were kicked and punched while arresting a 14-year-old youth at the scene of a burglary on Hayes Avenue.

More than 200 people attend a caucus of supporters of U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney of Youngstown as a favorite-son candidate for president. Carney’s delegates to the Democratic convention will be Edward A. Good and William M. Cafaro of Trumbull County and Mary E. Murphy, John T. Smith, Fred Beshara and Alice Orosz of Mahoning County.

Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter will head the 19th District Congressional delegation to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City. Other members of the delegation are Ruth Lindesmith of Poland and E.G. Ted Johnson of Niles.

1966: The March term of the Lawrence County grand jury recommends the construction of a new courthouse.

The new Trumbull County Jail nears completion. Sheriff Robert W. Barnett hopes to move in during the summer, weeks before the adjoining county office building is finished.

State Rep. Carl Stokes tells Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity in Youngstown that the time has come for the Negro to emerge as a force in American politics.

1941: The political situation demands that the United States have the most mechanized army the world has ever known, Col. Frank Scott, a retired military man and director of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., tells a conference of engineers in Cleveland.

Hundreds of igloo-like powder magazines are being built at the Ravenna arsenal, which will begin operations next summer.

Three would-be robbers, two of them armed, are routed when William Ferguson, assistant manager of the New Waterford Savings and Banking Co, fires a shot at them as they entered the bank.