Tuesday, March 15, 2016
YEARS AGO
Today is Tuesday, March 15, the 75th day of 2016. There are 291 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
44 B.C.: Roman dictator Julius Caesar is assassinated by a group of nobles that includes Brutus and Cassius.
1767: The seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, is born in Waxhaw, S.C.
1820: Maine becomes the 23rd state.
1922: Sultan Fuad I proclaims himself the first king of modern Egypt.
1935: The Busby Berkeley movie musical “Gold Diggers of 1935” is released by Warner Bros.
1956: The Lerner and Loewe musical play “My Fair Lady,” based on Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” opens on Broadway.
1977: The U.S. House of Representatives begins a 90-day closed-circuit test to determine the feasibility of showing its sessions on television.
1985: The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, is registered by the Symbolics Computer Corp. of Massachusetts.
1996: The Liggett Group agrees to repay more than $10 million in Medicaid bills for treatment of smokers, settling lawsuits with five states.
2001: Federal authorities confirm that remains found on a Texas ranch are those of missing atheist leader Madalyn Murray O’Hair and two of her relatives, who had disappeared 51/2 years earlier. (David Waters, the key suspect in the slayings, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court to extortion conspiracy.)
2006: Saddam Hussein, testifying for the first time in his trial, calls on Iraqis to stop killing one another and instead fight U.S. troops; the judge reprimands him for making a rambling, political speech and orders the TV cameras switched off.
2011: The Syrian civil war has its beginnings with Arab Spring protests across the region that turn into an armed insurgency and eventually become a full-blown conflict.
2015: The United States and Iran plunge back into negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland, hoping to end a decades-long standoff on Iran’s nuclear program.
VINDICATOR FILES
1991: State Rep. Joseph J. Vukovich III of Poland, appointed to a nonvoting member of the Ohio Turnpike Commission by House Speaker Vernal G. Riffe, says his chief responsibility will be to ensure that money is spent prudently.
After Mahoning County agrees to pay $3 million to Youngstown as its share of the Poland Avenue waste-treatment plant, Mayor Patrick Ungaro says the city will postpone proposed increases in water rates for out-of-city residents.
Residents on Winterberry Drive in Boardman gather to welcome home two neighbors, Capt. David Rader and Capt. Garth Wilkinson, who arrived home after more than two months flying missions in Saudi Arabia with the 147 th Air Refueling Squadron of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard.
1976: Bishop John H. Burt of the Ohio Episcopal Diocese says during a confirmation visit to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Canfield that he will resign if the general convention of the church does not vote to ordain women when it meets in September in Minneapolis.
More than 600 people crowd St. Anthony Auditorium for a concert by the Pascarella Band, conducted by Michael Ficocelli.
Gamblers Anonymous of Youngstown marks its fifth anniversary with a meeting at the Youngstown YWCA.
1966: Irate Boardman residents demand action on a swamp between Nova and Halbert lanes in which a child became mired. She was rescued by neighbors who pulled her out with a rope.
Herbert Philbrick, an FBI undercover agent whose life inspired the 1950s TV show, “I Led Three Lives,” tells a Youngstown audience that the United States must draw a line against Communism in Vietnam or face it later, perhaps at home.
Youngstown Police Chief John Terlesky swears in nine new patrolmen: Cornelius Cobbins, Ralph Hessman, Thomas A. Kelty, John Hosa, Lewis A. Bonace, Robert J. Sylvester, Robert Sikora, Edward Lightner and Robert H. Cole.
1941: Capt. Eugene McEvoy is named to head the Youngstown vice squad. The 13-year veteran succeeds the late Charles Richmond.
Eight graduates of the Youngstown Hebrew Institute receive diplomas: Berkeley Froomkin, Sol Chazanoff, Norman Zarchin, Irwin Schwartz, Bertha Berman, Bertrum Katz, Betty Pianin and Jack Nickel.
Rayen School of Youngstown and Harding High of Warren will face off for the Class A sectional basketball title after defeating Girard and Lisbon, respectively, in the semifinals.