YEARS AGO

Today is Palm Sunday, March 20, the 80th day of 2016. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring arrives at 12:30 a.m. Eastern time.

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On this date in:

1727:Physicist, mathematician and astronomer Sir Isaac Newton dies in London.

1815: Napoleon Bona-parte returns to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule.

1816: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee, unanimously affirms its right to review state court decisions under the Judiciary Act of 1789.

1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel about slavery, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” is first published in book form after being serialized.

1899: Martha M. Place of Brooklyn, N.Y., becomes the first woman to be executed in the electric chair as she was put to death at Sing Sing for the murder of her stepdaughter.

1933: The state of Florida electrocutes Giuseppe Zangara for shooting to death Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak at a Miami event attended by President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, the presumed target, the previous February.

1969: John Lennon marries Yoko Ono.

1976: Kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is convicted of armed robbery for her part in a San Francisco bank holdup carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army. (Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison; she was released after serving 22 months, and was pardoned in 2001 by President Bill Clinton.)

1986: The Dow Jones industrial average closes above 1,800 for the first time, at 1,804.24.

1996: A jury in Los Angeles convicts Erik and Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their wealthy parents. (They were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.)

2006: Beginning the fourth year of an unpopular war, President George W. Bush defends his Iraq record against skeptical questioning at the City Club in Cleveland.

2015: A jury in Gadsden, Ala., convicts 49-year-old Joyce Hardin Garrard of capital murder for running to death her 9-year-old granddaughter, Savannah Hardin.

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1991: Despite misgivings on the part of police, Youngstown Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro will submit a resolution to City Council calling for the creation of a civilian review board that would deal with complaints against police.

A surge in orders from van-converting companies for the full-size Chevrolet and GMC vans built in Lordstown results in the first overtime in a while for the 1,400 workers at the van plant.

Stephen Vrabel, the Struthers man accused of killing Susan Clemente, 28, and her daughter, Lisa Marie, 3, and placing their bodies in a refrigerator, is declared mentally incompetent to understand the charges against him and to stand trial for murder.

1976: Liberty Township trustees vote unanimously to place a 2.8-mill levy on the June 8 primary ballot with all proceeds going toward the police department, over the objections of some firemen.

Francine Pegues, compliance officer for the Ohio Department of Economic and Community Development, meets with Niles Mayor Arthur Doutt, Police Chief John Ross and city planner Gene Bray to discuss an affirmative action plan designed to counter the city’s sexually biased hiring practices.

A 16-year-old Boardman boy, a veteran drug addict who turned to armed robbery “to pay off a pusher,” is found delinquent by Juvenile Court Judge Martin P. Joyce and committed to the Ohio Youth Commission.

1966: A letter writer complains about an “outrageous bill” received from St. Elizabeth Hospital, where she received three stitches in the emergency room for a cut hand. The bill: $17.

St. Elizabeth Hospital plans a $6.5 million expansion that would provide a community health complex covering a 12-block area surrounding the present building on Belmont Avenue.

Eileen Margaret Turner of East Palestine is crowned Youngstown University’s ROTC Queen.

1941: Some 6,000 Youngs-towners see what’s involved in making an up-to-date home on opening day of the second annual Home Show at Stambaugh Auditorium.

Production of the first anti-aircraft gun carriage by Aetna-Standard Engineering Co. on its $5 million contract will be celebrated with an elaborate ceremony at the Ellwood City plant.

One floor of Beuchner Hall, a residence for working women and students under construction on the near North Side, will be reserved for Youngstown College coeds. Private rooms will be $5 per week; semi-private, $2.50 to $3.