YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 21
Today is Tuesday, March 21, the 80th day of 2017. There are 285 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1685: Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany.
1804: The French civil code, or the “Code Napoleon” as it was later called, is adopted.
1925: Tennessee Gov. Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, which prohibits the teaching of the Theory of Evolution in public schools. (Tennessee repealed the law in 1967.)
1935: Persia officially changes its name to Iran.
1946: The recently created United Nations Security Council sets up temporary headquarters at Hunter College in The Bronx, N.Y.
1952: The Moondog Coronation Ball, considered the first rock ’n’ roll concert in the United States, takes place at Cleveland Arena.
1981: Michael Donald, a black teenager in Mobile, Ala., is abducted, tortured and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
2006: The social media website Twitter is established with the sending of the first “tweet” by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who wrote: “just setting up my twttr.”
2016: President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro prod each other over human rights and the longstanding U.S. economic embargo during an unprecedented joint news conference in Havana.
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1992: The Lordstown General Motors plant has produced 2.3 million full-size GMC and Chevy vans, but the last of them is rolling off the assembly line as their production moves to Flint, Mich.
Mahoning County Commissioner Thomas J. Carney says that if Gov. George Voinovich’s cuts in welfare due to kick in April 1 were affecting a majority of white people rather than black, statewide outrage would be so significant that no governor would dare do it.
A Trumbull County jury recommends the death penalty for Roderick Davie, who was found guilty of killing Tracey Jefferys and John Coleman and wounding William J. Everett during a rampage at VCA in Warren.
1977: Anthony G. Petrony is the first customer at Youngstown’s new $9 million downtown Post Office, which opened on what had been urban renewal land on Walnut Street.
Trumbull County deputies are seeking the driver of a vehicle that struck and killed an 81-year-old Niles man, Elmer Cramer, whose body was found alongside state Route 169 in Weathersfield Township.
Youngstown district schools are sending 68 speakers in eight individual events and four varsity debate teams to Ohio University, Athens, to compete in the state speech and debate finals.
1967: Hundreds of whistling swans on their way from the south to their far-north breeding grounds take a breather on Evans Lake, Meander Reservoir and Hamilton Lake on the first day of spring.
Supt. J. Harry Wanamaker tells the Youngstown Board of Education it may have to seek a levy of as much as 10 mills.
LeRoy W. de Marrais, who was hired as academic dean for the projected Mahoning Community College, is named president of the South Campus of Allegheny County Community College in Pittsburgh.
The Mahoning County Welfare Department has a serious shortage of casework personnel, causing a backlog.
1942: Frank Sinkwich of Youngstown, Georgia University All-American football star, marries a 19-year-old Oglethorpe University co-ed, Adeline Weatherly.
Air-raid warden classes will open at Covington, Hillman and Haselton Settlement schools in Youngstown.
Rabbi Abraham Haskel Feinberg of Rockford, Ill., is named by trustees of Rodef Sholom Temple in Youngstown to succeed Rabbi I. Edmund Philo, who is retiring.
Four hundred men are trained as auxiliary firemen as part of Youngstown’s civil- defense effort.