Sunday, March 26, 2017
Today is Sunday, March 26, the 85th day of 2017. There are 280 days left in the year.
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1147: The Jewish community in Cologne fasts to commemorate anti- Jewish violence.
1812: An earthquake devastates Caracas, Venezuela, causing an estimated 26,000 deaths.
1827: Composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna.
1874: Poet Robert Frost is born in San Francisco.
1892: Poet Walt Whitman dies in Camden, N.J.
1917: The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. team to win the Stanley Cup as they defeat the Montreal Canadiens in Game 4 of the finals by a score of 9-1.
1937: A 6-foot-tall statue of the cartoon character Popeye is unveiled during the Second Annual Spinach Festival in Crystal City, Texas.
1945: During World War II, Iwo Jima is fully secured by U.S. forces following a final, desperate attack by Japanese soldiers.
Former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, 82, dies in Ty Newydd, Llanystumdwy, Wales.
1958: The U.S. Army launches America’s third successful satellite, Explorer 3.
1967: Pope Paul VI issues an encyclical, “Populorum Progressio,” on “the progressive development of peoples,” in which he expresses concern for those trying to escape hunger, poverty, endemic disease and ignorance.
1979: A peace treaty is signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and witnessed by President Jimmy Carter at the White House.
1982: Groundbreaking ceremonies take place in Washington, D.C., for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1992: A judge in Indianapolis sentences former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson to six years in prison for raping a Miss Black America contestant. (Tyson ended up serving three years.)
1997: The bodies of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate techno-religious cult who’d committed suicide are found inside a rented mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
2012: As demonstrations swirl outside, Supreme Court justices begin hearing arguments on challenges to President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul.
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1992: The deputy comptroller of the Defense Department’s Finance and Accounting Service urges Youngstown to make a bid for a new finance and accounting center that would employ 7,000 people.
Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini will return to the ring after a three-year layoff to face Greg Haugen in a 12-round bout in Reno.
Kathleen Markovich will return to the classroom at McKinley Elementary School in Poland over the objection of some parents and after agreeing to refrain from advocating animal rights and other causes in the classroom.
1977: Youngstown vice squad officers and Boardman police swoop down at the Spring Park Drive home of Frank Russo and five other sites, confiscating $17,000 in cash, guns, telephones, and gambling paraphernalia. Russo and six alleged bookies were arrested.
Crossroads Resource Conservation and Development is pushing hard to save Water Cress Marsh, a 150-acre site south of Winona in Columbiana County as a preserve for nature study, hiking and biological field trips.
Dr. Glenn Olds, president of Kent State University, says during commencement exercises for 927 Youngstown State University graduates that the recognition of the importance of university traditions is at an all-time high.
1967: A plan to merge Wean Industries Inc. with McKay Machine Co. and Youngstown Foundry and Machine Co. could create an industrial empire with national and international influence.
Waters of the Shenango River, which in the past have ravaged Mercer and Lawrence counties, are now being peacefully stored behind the $14 million Shenango Reservoir.
Inspired by a news magazine’s picture of a poverty-stricken mountain family, Bettie Krauss of Howland leads an effort to send help to the Appalachian region of Kentucky.
1942: Nine-year-old Charles Rowe testifies in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court that his stepfather, Curtis Little, 26, on trial for first-degree murder in the death of the boy’s mother, said he heard Little threaten to “finish” killing his wounded mother and then kill Charles and his brother.
Youngstown Mayor William B. Spagnola appoints an eight-member management- labor committee that is charged with maintaining Youngstown’s “wholesome labor situation” so as not to retard war production.
The 70-year-old frame building on Arlington Street that serves as the Youngstown Playhouse sustains $2,500 in damage from a fire of undetermined origin.