Friday, March 24, 2017
Today is Friday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2017. There are 282 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1913: New York’s Palace Theatre, the legendary home of vaudeville, opens on Broadway.
1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill granting future independence to the Philippines.
1944: In occupied Rome, the Nazis execute more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that had killed 32 German soldiers.
1989: The supertanker Exxon Valdez runs aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and begins leaking an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil.
1999: NATO launches airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it had ever attacked a sovereign country.
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1992: Youngstown State University trustees name Leslie H. Cochran, a provost at Southeast Missouri State, to succeed Dr. Neil Humphrey as YSU president.
Twenty-seven people die when a USAir jet slides off the LaGuardia Airport runway, including Jennifer Paloci, 31, of Shaker Heights and an Austintown Fitch graduate. Surviving the crash was Fred Paulevich Jr. of Danbury, Conn., formerly of Southington.
The Hubbard Board of Education votes to stop paying the employees’ share of state retirement for the superintendent, treasurer and all principals and assistant principal. The payments are equal to 9 percent of the employees’ salaries.
1977: Bill Paine of Dobbins Road, Poland, receives a commendation from the Carnegie Hero Fund for rescuing Walter Wilfong Jr., 19, from a burning car on Interstate 680 near South Avenue on Jan. 14, 1976.
Youngstown City Council is told that the pending pullout of GF Business Equipment Inc. will result in the loss of at least $550,000 annually in local and state tax revenue. The Youngstown plant employs 1,300.
The 27-year-old owner of the Continental Mark V Lounge on Marshall Road in McDonald is beaten to death. Two men who argued with Terry Stanton in the lounge several hours earlier are arrested.
1967: Three small children die in a fire that swept the family’s five-room apartment in the Maple Grove housing project in Windham, part of a former government complex built to house Ravenna Arsenal workers. Dead are Laura Lee Turner, 5; Frances Sue, 3; and Ellis, seven months.
Fire caused by an electrical short guts Liberty Bowling Lanes on Belmont Avenue. Four fire departments battled the blaze.
Second Lt. Charles Brown Jr. is killed during a firefight in Vietnam, the second Austintown soldier to die in the war.
A car traveling at high speed crashes through the wall of the Five Points Diner on Poland Avenue minutes after a crowd of steelworkers left for work. There were no injuries.
1942: A 58-year-old Youngstown man, arrested with an 18-inch high stack of bug slips, is fined $5 by Municipal Judge Peter B. Mulholland. Police said the slips represented a substantial part of the day’s number betting business in Youngstown.
Youngstown City Council authorizes the expenditure of $200 to decorate downtown streets with flags and bunting for the visit of Gov. John W. Bricker.
Geraldine Hull and Lloyd Yeager are featured in “Sadie of the USA,” a three-act comedy being presented by the senior class of Fitch High School.