YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 10

Today is Friday, March 10, the 69th day of 2017. There are 296 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1629: England’s King Charles I dissolves Parliament; he would not call it back for 11 years.

1785: Thomas Jefferson is appointed America’s minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.

1848: The U.S. Senate ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ends the Mexican-American War.

1933: A magnitude-6.4 earthquake centered off Long Beach, Calif., results in 120 deaths.

1952: Fulgencio Batista once again becomes leader of Cuba in a bloodless coup that deposed President Carlos Piro Socarras.

1969: James Earl Ray pleads guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to assassinating civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (Ray later repudiated that plea, maintaining his innocence until his death.)

1973: The Pink Floyd album “The Dark Side of the Moon” is first released in the U.S. by Capitol Records (the British release came nearly two weeks later).

2007: President George W. Bush asks Congress for $3.2 billion to pay for 8,200 more U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq on top of the 21,500-troop buildup he had announced in January 2007.

2012: Rick Santorum wins the Kansas caucuses in a rout, and Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney counters in Wyoming.

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1992: In a move designed to bolster General Motors Corp.’s Lordstown operation, the Ohio Turnpike Commission will begin construction of a $10 million interchange linking Ellsworth-Bailey and Hallock-Young roads to the turnpike.

Roderick Davie takes the stand in his own defense, claiming it was a neighbor, not he, who shot three co-workers – John Coleman, Tracey Jefferys and William John Everett – at the Veterinarian Company of America in Warren.

Saying Youngstown’s four swimming pools are among the few recreational activities available to inner-city youth, leaders of the Urban League and the NAACP urge the city to open the pools, despite a MVSD water conservation program.

1977: Preliminary plans are disclosed by Trumbull County commissioners for a $5 million plan that would provide water service to parts of Liberty, Hubbard, Brookfield, Vienna, Howland and Bazetta townships.

Frances Bolton, Ohio’s first U.S. congresswoman, who succeeded her late husband, Chester C. Bolton, in 1940 and served until 1969, dies at her Lyndhurst estate at age 91. Her son, Oliver P. Bolton, was elected to Congress in 1952, making them the only mother-son duo to serve simultaneously in Congress.

1967: Real-estate owners deluge the Mahoning County switchboard with complaints of tax bills they received. Most of the complaints came from Boardman and Poland, where votes approved levies to build and improve schools.

1942: Republic Steel Corp.’s Newton Falls plant, virtually idle for years, will go into war production as soon as machinery can be delivered and installed. Several hundred employees will be needed.

Two Youngstown men, Lt. George C. Brainard Jr. and Pvt. Leo D. Cronin, notify their parents that they arrived safely in Australia with their Army units.

Orson Welles comes to the Newport screen with “Citizen Kane;” Bob Hope co-stars with Paulette Goddard in “Nothing but the Truth” on the Foster screen, and Carole Lombard opens on the Strand screen in “Vigil in the Night.”