Tuesday, March 22, 2016
YEARS AGO
Today is Tuesday, March 22, the 82nd day of 2016. There are 284 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1638: Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson is expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for defying Puritan orthodoxy.
1765: The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resists the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.)
1894: Hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game is played; home team Montreal defeats Ottawa, 3-1.
1929: A U.S. Coast Guard vessel sinks a Canadian-registered schooner, the I’m Alone, in the Gulf of Mexico. (The schooner was suspected of carrying bootleg liquor.)
1933: During Prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
1941: The Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state officially goes into operation.
1945: The Arab League is formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt.
1958: Movie producer Mike Todd, the husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor, and three other people are killed in the crash of Todd’s private plane near Grants, N.M.
1963: The Beatles’ debut album, “Please Please Me,” is released in the United Kingdom by Parlophone.
1976: Principal photography for the first “Star Wars” movie, directed by George Lucas, begins in Tunisia.
1986: World financier Michele Sindona dies two days after ingesting cyanide in his Italian prison cell in what authorities later ruled was a suicide. (Sindona was serving a life sentence for ordering the death of a bank examiner investigating his tangled financial affairs.)
1991: High-school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of recruiting her teenage lover and his friends to kill her husband, Gregory, is convicted in Exeter, N.H., of murder-conspiracy and being an accomplice to murder and is sentenced to life in prison without parole.
1995: Convicted Long Island Rail Road gunman Colin Ferguson is sentenced to life in prison for killing six people.
2006: More than 125,000 hourly workers of General Motors Corp. and auto supplier Delphi Corp. are offered buyouts to help cut the companies’ huge labor costs.
2011: NFL owners meeting in New Orleans vote to make all scoring plays reviewable by the replay official and referee; also, kickoffs would be moved up 5 yards to the 35-yard line.
2015: CIA Director John Brennan, in an interview on Fox News Sunday, says the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force was contributing to instability in Iraq and complicating the U.S. mission against terrorism.
VINDICATOR FILES
1991: Fremont Camerino, president of Niles City Council, refuses to sign a memorandum of agreement authorizing bonds to finance a $2 million slag-processing venture on McKees Lane, saying other city officials have been rushing into the deal.
Several Canfield residents tell city council that proposals to increase minimum lot and house sizes would prohibit too many people from building in the city.
A worker at the Gateway to Better Living group home faces dismissal for slapping and treating roughly a mentally disabled man under her supervision.
1976: Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter takes out nominating petitions for the Republican primary for 19th Congressional District seat held by Democrat Charles J. Carney.
The bloody bodies of Arthur W. Feisley, 31, and Valura Biles, 26, both of Sebring, are found in Feisley’s car on Victoria Road by Austintown police on routine patrol. Both had been brutally stabbed and slashed to death.
Shannon Demko of Cardinal Mooney takes first place in original oratory at the Ohio High School Speech League Tournament in Cincinnati and will compete for national honors in June at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Her winning speech was “I Don’t Talk to Daisies Anymore.”
1966: The Youngstown Board of Education estimates that a 14-room addition to Chaney High School would cost $266,000.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars makes blue stars available to households that have a member in the armed services.
The Interlakes Steamship Co. is naming its new Great Lakes ore ship in honor of A.S. Glossbrenner, chairman of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.
1941: There’s plenty of glamour at the sixth annual Mahoning-Shenango Kennel Club all-breed show at the Rayen-Wood Auditorium. More than 350 canine aristocrats seek blue ribbons.
Dean Thomas Henry Briggs of the Teachers College of Columbia University, speaking at the 75th anniversary celebration of The Rayen School, says the nation could win a military war and still lose its most-precious possession – democracy – if its people take democracy for granted.