YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Monday, March 28, the 88th day of 2016. There are 278 days left in the year.

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1834: The U.S. Senate votes to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.

1854: During the Crimean War, Britain and France declare war on Russia.

1896: The opera “Andrea Chenier,” by Umberto Giordano, premieres in Milan, Italy.

1898: The Supreme Court, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, rules that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants is a U.S. citizen.

1930: The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora are changed to Istanbul and Ankara.

1935: The notorious Nazi propaganda film “Triumph des Willens” (Triumph of the Will), directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premieres in Berlin with Adolf Hitler present.

1941: Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf, 59, drowns herself near her home in Lewes, East Sussex, England.

1955: John Marshall Harlan II is sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

1965: A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes La Ligua, Chile, leaving about 400 people dead or missing, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

1969: The 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, dies in Washington, D.C. at age 78.

1979: America’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurs with a partial meltdown inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.

1987: Maria von Trapp, whose life story inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music,” dies in Morrisville, Vt., at age 82.

1990: President George H.W. Bush presents the Congressional Gold Medal to the widow of U.S. Olympic legend Jesse Owens.

2006: President George W. Bush replaces longtime chief of staff Andy Card with budget director Joshua Bolten.

More than a million people pour into streets across France while strikers disrupted air, rail and bus travel in the largest nationwide protest over a youth labor law.

2011: Vigorously defending American attacks in Libya, President Barack Obama declares in a nationally broadcast address that the United States intervened to prevent a slaughter of civilians; yet he rules out targeting Moammar Gadhafi, warning that trying to oust him militarily would be a mistake as costly as the war in Iraq.

2015: Afghanistan’s highest court rules that the police officer convicted of murdering Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus and wounding AP correspondent Kathy Gannon should serve 20 years in prison.

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1991: Alan Hunt Jr. of Warren, an engineer at ADS Machinery Corp., was one of three U.S. citizens aboard a Singapore Airlines jet that was hijacked by Pakistanis during a flight from Malaysia to Singapore. He told his wife by phone that he was “roughed up” but escaped without serious injury.

The state department of health sets up immunization clinics in Mesopotamia for members of the Amish community after an outbreak of German measles. It is believed the disease was brought to the area by out-of-state guests at a wedding in Geauga County.

Youngstown Sixth Ward Councilman James E. Fortune tells Mayor Patrick Ungaro that council will not act on his proposed trash fee until after the primary election.

Raymond S. Fischer, 78, a retired teacher at Chaney High School, dies in a fire at his home at 944 Lanterman Ave.

1976: Six light airplanes are damaged when high winds strike the area near the terminal of Youngstown Municipal Airport, turning over two and knocking about four others.

F. Keith Armstrong, executive director of the Western Reserve Transit Authority, will resign to take a research post with General Motors Corp. in Cincinnati.

George B. Moseley, the new chief executive of GF Business Equipment Inc., says his long-term goal is to restore GF to its rightful place as the world’s largest metal office furniture manufacturer and re-establish it as one of Youngstown’s top employers with topflight labor relations.

1966: Samuel C. Jackson, head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of the District of Columbia, tells members of the Youngstown Branch of the NAACP that the organization must educate people on the opportunities open to them under the new civil-rights law.

The Rev. Thomas Hammerton of Centenary Methodist Church is named East Palestine Man of the Year.

The state will pour $1 mil- lion in building assist-ance into Trumbull County schools.

1941: Sharon Steel’s new 20-ton electric furnace goes into operation in Lowellville, sharply boosting the Youngstown district’s capacity for tailor-made steel.

Mahoning County commissioners apply to participate in the federal food-stamp program, which it is estimated will bring an additional $400,000 to $500,000 in business to area grocers.

Large crowds turn out in Chardon for the opening day of the Geauga County Maple Festival.