YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 25

Today is Saturday, March 25, the 84th day of 2017. There are 281 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1776: Gen. George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, is awarded the first Congressional Gold Medal by the Continental Congress.

1911: About 150 people, mostly young female immigrants, are killed when fire breaks out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York.

1957: A signing ceremony was held for the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community, the forerunner of the European Union.

1965: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. leads 25,000 people to the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery after a five-day march from Selma to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.

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1992: Warren native Bill White, 58, announces that he will end his tenure as president of the baseball’s National League on March 31, 1993. He succeeded Bart Giamatti as league president in 1989, making him the highest ranking sports official who is black.

Trumbull County commissioners are ordered by three common pleas judges to find an additional $260,000 to fund court operations.

The mayors of Youngstown and Niles are pursuing a lessening of the Mahoning Valley Sanitray District’s drought-related water restrictions so that pool companies, landscapers and greenhouses can continue to do business.

1977: Six candidates are running for mayor of Youngstown: Democrats J. Phillip Richley, George Vukovich and S. Michael Kirwan; Republicans Emanuel Catsoules and Joseph J. Rohan and independent Ronald D. Daniels.

Struthers City Council approves a $7,317 contract for a year of bus service by the Western Reserve Transit Authority by a vote of 5-2. Voting in opposition were Terry Stocker and Robert Carcelli.

Mahoning County commissioners face the possibility of being held in contempt of court by the Ohio Supreme Court for failing to act on an order that the county provide additional space for the law library.

1967: Officers of the Metropolitan Baptist Church on Rayen Avenue ask Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to enjoin 12 members of the church from attending Easter services, saying the defendants “talked against (and hinder) the administration of the church.”

A 14-year-old East Side boy, just released from the Juvenile Research Center, is arrested in East High School, one of three schools burglarized the same night.

The Hungarian U.P. Church, under its new pastor, the Rev. Sandor Farkas, has organized a brass choir, which will play at Easter services.

The Harlem Globetrotters bring their basketball talents to the South High Field House.

1942: Youngstown Mayor William B. Spagnola and his wife have moved from their larger home at 341 Gypsy Lane to a newly acquired six-room house at 4217 Euclid Blvd.

Louis N. Nesselbush, a major in the Army Reserves and vice president of Falcon Bronze Co., is named Mahoning County coordinator of air- raid wardens.

The Ohio Supreme Court upholds the new teacher tenure law in four cases, including that of an Elyria teacher the board refused to rehire because it had a rule against employing married women.

Youngstown Police Chief John W. Turnbull says he’ll strictly enforce the city’s new anti-gambling ordinance that outlaws slot machines, marble boards and all other gambling devices.