YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 7

Today is Tuesday, March 7, the 66th day of 2017. There are 299 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1793: During the French Revolutionary Wars, France declares war on Spain.

1850: In a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts endorses the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.

1876: Alexander Graham Bell receives a U.S. patent for his telephone.

1936: Adolf Hitler orders his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles.

1965: A march by civil-rights demonstrators is violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”

1967: The musical “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” based on the “Peanuts” comic strips by Charles M. Schulz with Gary Burghoff in the title role, opens in New York’s Greenwich Village, beginning an off-Broadway run of 1,597 performances.

2012: President Barack Obama, speaking at a Daimler truck plant in Mount Holly, N.C., makes his most urgent appeal to date for the nation to wean itself from oil, calling it a “fuel of the past.”

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1992: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells a large crowd at Stambaugh Auditorium that the assault on the environment threatens to affect his children and his children’s children long after he is dead.

Century Shenango Cable TB announces rate increases for subscribers. Basic 14-channel service will increase from $15.95 to $16.75 per month. The Disney Channel will go from $6 to $8 and HBO will go from $7 to $8.

Youngstown State University renews the contract of men’s basketball coach John Stroia and Ray Hernan is hired as an assistant.

1977: Five fire departments and more than 60 volunteer firemen battle for three hours a blaze that gutted a wing of the Ellsworth Post Office at state Routes 224 and 45. No mail was lost.

The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Mahoning County commissioners will finance a study on how to jointly clean up industrial and municipal wastes dumped into the Mahoning River.

Herman and Harry Gelbke, owners of Breezewood Farm in Kinsman, file a $1 lawsuit in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court claiming that an Illinois breeding service impregnated their prize cow, Patsy Bar Pontiac with semen from an inferior bull.

1967: Dr. Earl H. Young, 57, becomes president of the Youngstown Board of Education, succeeding Warren P. Williamson, and Atty. Jay C. Brownlee is appointed to the board seat vacated by Williamson’s resignation.

Diana Lowry of Warren is the first woman to tour with the Ohio State University Glee Club.

Mercer County grand jury reports that the 80-year-old jail does not meet modern standards and suggests that a new one be built.

Warren Councilman Arthur Richards says the city must economize and suggests it give up the garbage business and stop subsidizing bus transportation.

1942: Rayen Auditorium is jammed with 1,500 air-raid volunteers who hear a lecture and see demonstrations on bombs, shells and anti-aircraft tactics.

Bible Lecturer Leon Robbins will speak at Central Auditorium on “Is the present war the Armageddon of Bible prophecy?”

The Rev. Augustine George Yurko, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Yurko of Youngstown, will celebrate his first Mass at Holy Name Church.

Youngstown’s vice squad arrests 11 “bug men” in gambling raids. A small amount of money and lottery slips were confiscated.