YEARS AGO

Today is Sunday, March 5, the 64th day of 2017. There are 301 days left in the year.

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1770: The Boston Massacre takes place as British soldiers who’d been taunted by a crowd of colonists open fire, killing five people.

1868: The U.S. Senate is organized into a Court of Impeachment to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson, who later would be acquitted.

1933: In German parliamentary elections, the Nazi Party wins 44 percent of the vote; the Nazis join with a conservative nationalist party to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.

1953: Soviet dictator Josef Stalin dies after three decades in power.

1970: The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after 43 nations ratified it.

1977: President Jimmy Carter takes questions from 42 telephone callers in 26 states on a network radio call-in program moderated by Walter Cronkite.

1982: Comedian John Belushi is found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was 33.

1994: A jury in Pensacola, Fla., convicts anti-abortion activist Michael F. Griffin of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Dr. David Gunn; Griffin was immediately sentenced to life in prison.

2007: A suicide car bomber turns a Baghdad book market into a deadly inferno, killing 36 people.

2016: Bernie Sanders wins Democratic caucuses in Kansas and Nebraska, while Hillary Clinton prevails in Louisiana. Republican Ted Cruz wins in Maine and Kansas while Donald Trump is victorious in Louisiana and Kentucky.

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1992: A 13-year-old Austintown Middle School student is one of four teenagers arrested in connection with a burglary and the fatal shooting of Douglas Lash, 19, of Newton Falls.

Hundreds of Mahoning Valley computer users are contracting with experts to increase their defenses against the Michelangelo computer virus.

Everbright Power Sweeping is being fined $500 for tapping into a Niles fire hydrant and cleaning the parking lot at the Pine Tree Plaza in McKinley Heights. Service Director Sam Natoli notes that the city is in a water emergency.

1977: Trumbull County Sheriff Richard A. Jakmas says five deputies have been laid off effective March 20, the same day that the department’s contract for police protection with Lordstown Township expires.

Mercer County Common Pleas Court Judge Albert E. Acker turns over to Juvenile Court the case of a boy accused of murder in the death of his twin brother, saying, “I cannot believe that Greenville or any other Mercer County community could be so blood-thirsty as to want a 12-year-old boy tried as an adult.”

Msgr. John J. Lettau, pastor of St. Edward Church, chooses “love thy neighbor as thyself” as the theme of his address on World Day of Prayer, sponsored by Youngstown Area Church Women United.

1967: Boardman High School wins the northern Ohio speech championship at Cuyahoga Falls High School, with Cardinal Mooney and Ursuline tied for second.

Mrs. John J. McDonough, bacteriologist in the Youngstown Health Department, heads the Youngstown area drive for funds for a science center at Seton Hill College.

Friction between state law and the stern dogma of a community of Mennonite farmers near North Lima threatens the future of Sharon Day School, the only Mennonite school in Mahoning County.

The Arner Co. in Orangeville, which has served two generations of farmers on both sides of the Ohio-Pennsylvania line is closing.

1942: Common Pleas Judge J.H.C. Lyon says the court of appeals will determine who is entitled to sit on the Mahoning County Board of Elections and until then neither Fred S. Shutrump nor Walter Mitchell can take the seat.

A two-day blizzard continues, with the airport and many schools still closed.

Twenty-three members of a civil defense speakers bureau announced. Clubs and organizations can arrange to have a speaker on civil defense issues.