Thursday, March 23, 2017
Today is Thursday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2017. There are 283 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1775: Patrick Henry delivers an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he said, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
1792: Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 in G Major has its first public performance in London.
1806: Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, begin their journey back east.
1956: Pakistan becomes an Islamic republic.
1965: America’s first two-person space mission takes place as Gemini 3 blasts off with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young.
1983:President Ronald Reagan first proposes developing technology to intercept incoming enemy missiles – an idea that came to be known as the Strategic Defense Initiative.
2007: The House votes for the first time to clamp a cutoff deadline on the Iraq war, agreeing by a thin margin to pull combat troops out by late 2008.
2011: Academy Award-winning actress Elizabeth Taylor dies in Los Angeles at age 79.
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: A South Side woman, Roberta Gierlach, 31, perished in a fire at her New Castle, Pa., home.
U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-17th, says he has talked to the chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on defense and has received a commitment of support for Youngstown’s bid to land a federal payroll center that would employ as many as 7,000.
A 16-year-old West Farmington motorist is charged with failure to maintain an assured clear distance after his Chevrolet Cavalier hit two Amish buggies in state Route 534, injuring one of the buggy drivers and killing a horse pulling one of the buggies.
1977: A Trumbull County jury finds Gary Alan Betz, 22, of Homeworth, Columbiana County, guilty of murdering Ronald Goche of Lords-town during a robbery at Goche’s Newton Township tavern.
The Campbell Board of Education adopts a resolution to appropriate a 32-acre site in the Matesevac estate on Hubbard-Coitsville Road for a proposed new centralized elementary school.
Parts of Youngstown State University’s winter commencement at Beeghly Center will be televised for the first time over WNEO/WEAO, channels 45/49.
1967: Judge George M. Jones, presiding judge of the 7th District Court of Appeals, says that if Mahoning County cannot provide the court with a permanent courtroom, he will send letters to the 12 other counties in the district seeking proposals.
About 200 Boardman Township residents are told they could face court action if they continue to pollute Mill Creek.
Lemoine Ellen Wuchter, a senior at Canfield High, is named Betty Crocker’s Homemaker of Tomorrow for Ohio.
1942: Three gunmen flee empty handed after fatally shooting James M. Supplee, 31, a night clerk at Warner & Smith Motor Freight Co. in Sharpsville, Pa.
Ralph Dextras and Mary Gonda have the leading roles in “The Very Light Brigade,” a patriotic comedy being presented by the East High School graduating class.
Being a Christian and being a warrior is not inconsistent, says D. Frederick B. McAllister, pastor of First Baptist Temple, adding, “Gen. Douglas MacArthur epitomizes America in one man.”
An old English sheepdog owned by Dr. George A. Wiseman of Amherst is named best-in-show at the Mahoning-Shenango Kennel Club show for the second year in a row.