YEARS AGO ON MARCH 3

Today is Friday, March 3, the 62nd day of 2017. There are 303 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1845: Florida becomes the 27th state.

1887: Anne Sullivan arrives at the Tuscumbia, Ala., home of Capt. and Mrs. Arthur H. Keller to become the teacher for their deaf and blind 6-year-old daughter, Helen.

1923: Time magazine makes its debut.

1931: “The Star-Spangled Banner” becomes the national anthem of the United States as President Herbert Hoover signs a congressional resolution.

1945: The Allies fully secure the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese forces during World War II.

1959: Comedian Lou Costello dies in East Los Angeles three days before his 53rd birthday.

1987: Entertainer Danny Kaye dies in Los Angeles at age 76.

1991: Motorist Rodney King is severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video.

VINDICATOR FILES

1992: Youngstown Water Commission Gary Thompson says mandatory conservation measures will be enforced because of low water levels at Meander Reservoir, and violators could face fines of $500.

Integra Bank delays the sheriff’s sale of two mobile-home parks in Lackawannock Township to give about 40 tenants time to find an alternative to eviction.

William John Everett, who survived a gunman’s attack at the Veterinary Company of America in Warren that left two people dead, identifies Roderick Davie as the shooter during Davie’s trial.

1977: The Youngstown Hospital Association and St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center form the Mahoning Valley Medical Education Foundation to oversee joint educational programs and provide a broadened base for medical education in greater Youngstown.

City Council passes a resolution formally appealing to GF Business Equipment Inc. to not pull out of Youngstown, pointing to the large number of jobs that would be lost.

Two young Boardman men are found dead and a third seriously injured in the wreckage of their crumpled car that was undiscovered for 10 hours in a ravine off Sharrott Road in Beaver Township. Dead are Peter J. Nolfi Jr. and Richard Metz, both 19.

1967: A 16-year-old South Side youth is sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty in Youngstown Municipal Court to assaulting a juvenile during a fight at the South High Field House.

Trumbull County commissioners unanimously reject the proposed annexation of a 670-acre parcel of Howland Township that stretches from the Warren city limits to the Vienna Township line.

Samuel I. Newhouse purchases the Cleveland Plain Dealer for a reported $50 million, the highest price paid for a single newspaper in the history of journalism.

1942: L. Calvin Jones, Youngstown insurance man, is named to the Youngstown Board of Education after the resignation Atty. T. Lamar Jackson.

A test shows that mill whistles are an unsatisfactory substitute for air-raid sirens. Many people could not hear the whistles when they all sounded at the same time.

George Pantall of Struthers was one of the sailors who survived when the destroyer Jacob Jones was sunk by enemy torpedoes off the New Jersey coast. More than 100 crew members died.

Leslie Avenue School in Niles, now vacant, is being razed because neighborhood boys have taken to vandalizing.