YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Saturday, March 26, the 86th day of 2016. There are 280 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1812: An earthquake devastates Caracas, Venezuela, causing an estimated 26,000 deaths, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

1827: Composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna.

1874: Poet Robert Frost is born in San Francisco.

1892: Poet Walt Whitman dies in Camden, N.J.

1917: The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. team to win the Stanley Cup as they defeat the Montreal Canadiens.

1945: During World War II, Iwo Jima is fully secured by U.S. forces after a final, desperate attack by Japanese soldiers.

1958: The U.S. Army launches America’s third successful satellite, Explorer 3.

1964: The musical play “Funny Girl,” starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, opens on Broadway.

1971: East Pakistan proclaims its independence, taking the name Bangladesh.

1979: A peace treaty is signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and is witnessed by President Jimmy Carter at the White House.

1982: Groundbreaking ceremonies take place in Washington, D.C., for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

1996: Former U.S. senator and secretary of state Edmund Muskie dies in Washington, D.C., two days shy of his 82nd birthday.

2006: An Afghan court dismisses the case against a man facing possible execution for converting from Islam to Christianity. (Abdul Rahman was released and granted asylum by Italy.)

2011: Former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, the first female major-party nominee for the office, dies in Boston at 75.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: State Rep. Joseph J. Vukovich Jr., D-52nd, Poland, chairman of an Ohio House committee fashioning a campaign finance bill, says Gov. George Voinovich has threatened to veto the bill unless it restricts political activity by unions.

Youngstown plastic surgeon Dr. Richard Murray says he will try to sell his elaborately decorated MedArt Building at 2125 Glenwood Ave.for $500,000. Murray, 69, said he had once planned on donating the 15-room home and office building to the city, but he has been financially crippled by recent action against him by the state medical board.

Youngstown Police Chief Randall Wellington says that when he told talk- radio host Dan Ryan that legalizing drugs might reduce crime in the city, he was speaking out of frustration, expressing his support for legalization.

1976: The Western Reserve Economic Development Agency will submit an application to the U.S. Commerce Department for funding for a joint iron-making plant that would serve U.S. Steel Corp., Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Republic Steel Corp. in the Mahoning Valley.

U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney, D-19th, is sponsoring a bill to provide annual cost-of-living increases for veterans and their dependents.

GF Business Equipment awards contracts to Mosure, Fok-Syrakis Co. and United Excavating to prepare the site for a new $7 million plant on a 130-acre site on Youngstown-Hubbard Road.

1966: A Boardman couple and their two daughters are rescued from their burning home by firefighters and police. James and Marian Canan and daughters Linda and Susan were treated for smoke inhalation.

Four Cleveland men are arrested while stripping brass from the Anna Furnace of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.

Warren Harding is eliminated in the Ohio semi-final basketball tournament by Dayton Chamimade, 60-52. Mercer beats Upper Darby, 55-52, in overtime to win the Pennsylvania B title.

1941: Youngstown City Engineer Ralph O’Neill says that until the incinerator is repaired, the city will bury the garbage it collects on the former Oatsteane farm, which is a potential city park near Salt Springs Road.

Henry A. Roemer, former Canton industrialist and now chairman of Sharon Steel Corp., returns to Canton to give some advice to young businessmen: Stress friendliness in all business deals.

In a time of national stress, youths need the stability of the YMCA more than ever, speakers tell Y members in Warren.