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Today is Thursday, March 24, the 84th day of 2016. There are 282 days left in the year.

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1765: Britain enacts the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.

1832: A mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacks, tars and feathers Mormon leaders Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.

1913: New York’s Palace Theatre, the legendary home of vaudeville, opens on Broadway.

1958: Rock-’n’-roll singer Elvis Presley is inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tenn.

1975: Muhammad Ali defeats Chuck Wepner with a technical knockout in the 15th round of a fight at The Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio. (Wepner, a journeyman known as the “Bayonne Bleeder,” inspired Sylvester Stallone to make his “Rocky” films.)

1989: The supertanker Exxon Valdez runs aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and begins leaking an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil.

1995: After 20 years, British soldiers stop routine patrols in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

2006: Thousands of people across the country protest legislation cracking down on immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.

2011: The Census Bureau releases its first set of national-level findings from the 2010 count on race and migration, showing that Hispanics account for more than half of the U.S. population increase over the previous decade, exceeding estimates in most states as they cross a new census milestone: 50 million, or 1 in 6 Americans.

2015: President Barack Obama receives Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the White House, where Obama agreed to slow the U.S. military pullout from Afghanistan at the request of its new government but insists the delay will not jeopardize his commitment to end America’s longest war before leaving office.

Germanwings Flight 9525, an Airbus A320, crashes into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board; investigators said the jetliner was deliberately downed by the 27-year-old co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, who had a history of depression and mental illness.

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1991: Youngstown has had 14 homicides in the first 12 weeks of 1991 by gun. Four were by 9mm semiautomatic pistols, two each by .380-caliber pistols, .38-caliber revolvers and .25-caliber handguns, and one by a .22-caliber rifle. Three weapons are unidentified.

Shari Harrell-Shape, a member of the board of the Warren YWCA, will travel to Norway as one of 12 U.S. delegates to the World YWCA Council meeting.

The Youngstown Fire Department is finding it difficult to celebrate its 100th anniversary, with the number of firefighters at 160, the lowest since the 1940s, and two fire stations recently closed.

1976: Four thugs terrorize a Hillman Street family, accusing a man in that family of having stolen $1,400 from one of them.

Law Director William J. Higgins warns Youngstown employees who live outside the city or move outside still face the possibility of being fired because a recent Supreme Court decision in favor of some municipal employees does not invalidate Youngstown’s 1928 residency law.

A 9-year-old North Side boy, Dion Freeman, is in satisfactory condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital with multiple broken bones after being struck by a hit-and-run motorist while riding his bike in Lexington Avenue.

1966: Youngstown Mayor Anthony B. Flask says three hotel chains – Hilton, Sheraton and Holiday Inn – have expressed an interest in developing a major facility in Youngstown.

Gov. James A. Rhodes says five major national manufacturers are interested in locating at the Ravenna Arsenal if the Defense Department releases the land.

Youngstown City Council backs establishment of Mahoning County Community College, which would stress technical training not now available at Youngstown University.

1941: Philip Murray, president of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, requests negotiations leading to contracts with companies involved in the Little Steel Strike of 1937. The companies haven’t responded.

Frank T. Affronti of Youngstown has made six jumps with the 501st Parachute Battalion at Fort Benning and is expected to earn his wings within the month.

In an economy drive, Columbiana County commissioners bar eight county offices from making long-distance phone calls without prior approval of commissioners. The sheriff’s department and engineer’s office are exempt from the order.