YEARS AGO ON MARCH 2

Today is Thursday, March 2, the 61st day of 2017. There are 304 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1867: Howard University, a historically black school of higher learning in Washington, D.C., is founded as it received a congressional charter.

1877: Republican Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.

1939: Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected pope on his 63rd birthday; he takes the name Pius XII.

1965: The movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, has its world premiere in New York.

1977: The U.S. House of Representatives adopts a strict code of ethics.

2005: The number of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq war reaches at least 1,500.

2007: A charter bus carrying a college baseball team from Bluffton University in Ohio plunges off an Atlanta highway ramp and slams into the pavement below, killing seven people, including the driver.

2012: Some 40 people are killed by tornadoes that struck Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.

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1992: The sight of Patrolman John Clinkscale leisurely walking his North Side beat assures local residents, who say one cop on the beat is worth two in a patrol car.

The practice of employees stockpiling benefits hit the city of Warren hard in 1991, with retiring police officers collecting $300,000 in severance pay.

Vandalism is blamed for a power outage that plunged 30,000 Ohio Edison customers in Mahoning and Trumbull counties. A guy wire at the rear of the Salt Springs substation on Meridian Road was cut, causing a two wires to short out.

1977: Trumbull County Prosecutor J. Walter Dragelevich says he fears that testimony in U.S. District Court in Cleveland linking him to organized crime figure Dominick Bartone has jeopardized his chance to be named by President Carter to a U.S. attorney’s job.

Bondsman Mario J. Guerrieri, 45, is in fair condition in South Side Hospital with a gunshot wound of the leg suffered when Louis “Shotgun Louie” DeLuca opened fire on him outside DeLuca’s Backstage Lounge on W. Boardman Street.

During a meeting closed to the press, Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter promises 40 East Side residents that there will be a “complete, thorough and comprehensive investigation” of the stoning of a WRTA bus on the city’s East Side and the arrest of two men.

1967: The Rev. George Howard, director of the American Mission on West Woodland Avenue, tells Youngstown City Council that the city’s youth need more recreational facilities and a more stringent curfew.

Maureen Philbin of Warren, a junior at St. Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing, is named to represent the area in competition in Dayton for Student Nurse of Ohio.

Heavyweight Mike Boswell of Youngstown loses in the semifinal three-round bout at the National Golden Gloves tournament in Milwaukee. He is beaten by Clay Hodges of Los Angeles, who went on to win the crown.

1942: Two of Mahoning County’s 11 selective service boards have reclassified men originally classified as 1-B to 1-A and sent them to Canton for induction physicals. The other nine boards are expected to follow suit with men who were classified 1-B because of their eyes or teeth.

Anthony J. Pastula of Youngstown, believed to be dead after his bomber crashed in January, is rescued from an atoll near Samoa.

Mahoning County’s 6th annual March of Dimes drive exceeds its $190,000 goal by $236.