YEARS AGO

YEARS AGO

Today is Tuesday, March 29, the 89th day of 2016. There are 277 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1790: The 10th president of the United States, John Tyler, is born in Charles City County, Va.

1812: The first White House wedding takes place as Lucy Payne Washington, the sister of first lady Dolly Madison, marries Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd.

1912: British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, his doomed expedition stranded in an Antarctic blizzard after failing to be the first to reach the South Pole, writes the last words of his journal: “For Gods sake look after our people.”

1936: German Chancellor Adolf Hitler claims overwhelming victory in a plebiscite on his policies.

1943: World War II rationing of meat, fats and cheese begins.

1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted in New York of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union. (They were executed in June 1953.)

The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The King and I” opens on Broadway.

1638: Swedish colonists settle in present-day Delaware.

1962: Jack Paar hosts NBC’s “Tonight” show for the final time, although the network airs a repeat the following night. (Johnny Carson debuted as host in October 1962.)

1971: Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. is convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre. (Calley ended up serving three years under house arrest.)

A jury in Los Angeles recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders. (The sentences were later commuted.)

1973: The last United States combat troops leave South Vietnam, ending America’s direct military involvement in the Vietnam War.

1974: Eight Ohio National Guardsmen are indicted on federal charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University. (The charges were later dismissed.)

1984: Under cover of early morning darkness, the Baltimore Colts football team leaves its home city of three decades and moves to Indianapolis.

1992: Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton acknowledges experimenting with marijuana “a time or two” while attending Oxford University, adding, “I didn’t inhale, and I didn’t try it again.”

2006: Hamas formally takes over the Palestinian government, with Ismail Haniyeh sworn in as the new prime minister.

The U.N. Security Council demands that Iran suspend uranium enrichment, the first time the body directly urged Tehran to clear up suspicions that it was seeking nuclear weapons.

2011: Gunmen hold an Iraqi government center in Tikrit hostage in a grisly siege that ends with the deaths of at least 56 people, including three councilmen, plus the attackers, who blow themselves up.

2015: A two-day Arab summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, ends with a vow to defeat Iranian-backed Shiite rebels in Yemen and the formal unveiling of plans to form a joint Arab intervention force.

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1991: After four years of protests and legal battles, opposing factions in the operation of Browning Ferris Carbon Limestone Landfill reach a compromise agreement. The 30-year agreement outlines several conditions BFI must follow in exchange for county approval of its operating license.

Warren city and Warren Township police are investigating a drive-by shooting in which two Warren men were wounded in battle over drug turf, purportedly by two Detroit men known only as “Dirt” and “Red.”

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources rejects an application from Leetonia for $285,000 for a bicycle trail from Leetonia to Lisbon.

1976: The Youngstown Hospital Association applies to the Ohio Department of Health to add a $9.2 million surgical building at North Side Hospital.

U.S. Steel Corp.’s Ohio Works blows in a second blast furnace, paving the way for an upturn in steel production.

Kimberly Palazzo, a 17-year-old senior at Ursuline High School, is Youngstown’s Best Junior Achievement Salesperson for 1976 and will represent the city in a six-state regional contest in Lansing, Mich.

1966: The Fraternal Order of Eagles honors Emil Rauschenbach as “Humanitarian of the Year” in recognition of his 45 years as a Scout leader.

Champion Shawen’s Cavalier, an Irish setter owned by Bayer aspirin tycoon W. H. Kinnucan of Fort Lauderdale, wins best of show at the 30th annual Mahoning-Shenango Kennel Club show.

Girard City Council authorizes the hiring of an architect to plan remodeling of city hall.

1941: Miriam Bates, a 17-year-old Painesville High School student, is crowned maple syrup queen at Chardon.

Presidents of four Youngstown banks pledge to cooperate in establishing the federal food-stamp program in the city.