Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Today is Wednesday, March 22, the 81st day of 2017. There are 284 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1638: Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson is expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for defying Puritan orthodoxy.
1765: The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resist the tax.
1894: Hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game is played; home team Montreal defeats Ottawa, 3-1.
1933: During Prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
1978: Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act, falls to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1991: High-school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of recruiting her teenage lover and his friends to kill her husband, Gregory, is convicted in Exeter, N.H., of murder-conspiracy and being an accomplice to murder and is sentenced to life in prison without parole.
1992: Some 27 people are killed when a USAir Fokker F-28 jetliner bound for Cleveland crashed on takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport; 24 people survive.
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: Residents of the Westview Terrace housing project in New Castle and police give the Nation of Islam Security Agency credit for restoring quiet and squelching drug dealing during the year that the Black Muslims have been on patrol.
Maplewood High School comes in first; McDonald High, second; and LaBrae High, third, at the Physics Olympics at Youngstown State University.
The movement of heavy drilling equipment prompts the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to impose weight limits on four Mercer County roads: Butler Pike, Flat Road, Hoagland Road and Williamson Road.
1977: Veteran Youngstown State basketball coach Dom Rosselli is named the NCAA Coach of the Year in District IV. Rosselli, who has been the Penguins coach since 1940, led the team to a 22-7 record, 14th place in the final NCAA cage poll.
Eighteen prisoners are transported from the Lawrence County Jail to Allegheny County after 13 guards at the jail go on strike.
John Brown III, 29, a reserve Mahoning County deputy sheriff, is treated at Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital after smashing his cruiser into a utility pole on Arrel Road in Poland Township. He was responding to an accidental alarm at the Starlight Caf .
1967: Three thugs open fire on Leonard Holland, an attendant at the Amoco station on McGuffey Road, wounding him in the arm. But he returns fire, forcing them to run, leaving their car behind.
The parents of six Austintown boys arrested for cemetery vandalism are ordered to pay $500 for the damage, and the boys are ordered to repay their parents and to work weekends at the police station.
Brookfield teachers strike, closing five Brookfield schools.
In response to a question, U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan says he intends to continue seeking re-election to Congress as long as he enjoys good health.
1942: John Hessin Clarke, who was born in Lisbon, lived in Youngstown and resigned from the Supreme Court of the U.S. to promote the League of Nations for President Wilson, says he still dreams of a world body aimed at fostering peace between nations. Clarke, 84, lives in California.
Ray Hagstrom, Mahoning County rationing coordinator, says the county is ready to begin sugar rationing. It has 240,000 cards in stock, one for each family.
Youngstown clothiers say new men’s suit pants will be without cuffs or pleats conserve wool for the war effort.
General Fireproofing Co. has more orders than manpower and has put 10 women welders to work on the assembly line.