YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 13

Today is Monday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2017. There are 293 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1781: The seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, is discovered by Sir William Herschel.

1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis signs a measure allowing black slaves to enlist in the Confederate States Army with the promise they would be set free.

1925: The Tennessee General Assembly approves a bill prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution.

1947: The Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical “Brigadoon,” about a Scottish village which magically reappears once every 100 years, opens on Broadway.

1964: Bar manager Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, 28, is stabbed to death near her Queens, N.Y., home; the case gained notoriety over the supposed reluctance of Genovese’s neighbors to respond to her cries for help.

1980: Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II announces he is stepping down, the same day a jury in Winamac, Ind., found the company not guilty of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three young women in a Ford Pinto.

1996: A gunman bursts into an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and opens fire, killing 16 children and one teacher before killing himself.

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1992: Youngstown State University professor Thomas A. Shipka, rejected as a candidate for university president, resigns from the Academic Senate because of what he called “improprieties” in the presidential search.

Citing staff cuts through attrition and the movement of some work to low-cost Mexican factories, Packard Electric says it reached its 1991 cost-cutting goals, which allowed it to keep its General Motors Corp. business in North America.

Ohio Secretary of State Robert Taft, a Republican, breaks the deadlock on who should serve as director of the Trumbull County Board of Elections, naming Patricia Fisher to replace Lyn Augustine, who was director for nine years.

1977: A slice of Trumbull County history is decaying amid pigeon droppings, spiderwebs and dust in the dome of the Trumbull County Courthouse.

The Spaulding Report, issued to the Youngstown Board of Education telling it how to save $400,000, would have the district eliminate 31 administrative and teaching positions and close three schools.

B.F. Webster, executive director of Trumbull Memorial Hospital, says the hospital is undertaking a $1.5 million internal expansion and renovation program.

1967: Conway Ford Inc. of Belmont Avenue buys land at Mahoning Avenue and Viall Road and will relocate to a new $350,000 showroom there.

About 150 Youngstown teens attend an organizational meeting for a Youth Council aimed at redirecting activity of youths away from gangs.

Sex education for junior high-school students is discussed by Lisbon Exempted Village Board of Education.

Representatives of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft form East Hartford, Conn., are coming to Youngstown to conduct job interviews for computer specialists, engineers, designers, technical writers and researchers.

1942: More than 3,500 people visit Stambaugh Auditorium for the Home Show. Ben Bernie and his Stage Stars will appear in four shows on the closing day.

Warren, which was given a federal grant to build its own water treatment plant, asks the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District to help provide the city’s needs until the new plant is built.

An editorial in support of a Lake Erie to Ohio River Canal says the primary opposition has historically come from the railroads. It quotes a recent report out of Texas: “The huge un-American railroad lobby has done its best to strangle every transportation facility in America except its own.”