YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 28

Today is Tuesday, March 28, the 87th day of 2017. There are 278 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1834: The U.S. Senate votes to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.

1898: The Supreme Court, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, rules that a child born in the U.S. to Chinese immigrants is a U.S. citizen.

1930: The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora are changed to Istanbul and Ankara.

1941: Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf, 59, drowns herself near her home in Lewes, East Sussex, England.

1942: During World War II, British naval forces stage a successful raid on the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire in Operation Chariot, destroying the only dry dock on the Atlantic coast capable of repairing the German battleship Tirpitz.

1969: The 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, dies in Washington, D.C., at age 78.

1979: America’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurred with a partial meltdown inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.

2007: Iran airs a video of 15 British sailors and marines who were captured five days earlier.

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1992: Warren Municipal Judge Samuel Petko-vich dismisses a charge of child endangering against a 27-year-old Clarion, Pa., man who was charged with child endangering for giving his diabetic child too much candy after the man took a course on diabetes at Tod Children’s Hospital.

Youngstown State University trustees approve the layoff of 120 administrative staff members during the summer, contingent on the severity of the budget crisis facing the state and university.

An attorney for boxer Mike Tyson suggests that he could serve any sentence for his rape conviction under house arrest at his Trumbull County estate.

1977: Dr. W. Don McClure, a United Presbyterian missionary in the Sudan and Ethiopia for almost 50 years, who spoke each summer at Westminster College, is shot and killed by guerrillas near the Godi Project in Ethiopia.

The death toll rises to 562 in the collision of two passenger jets in the Canary Islands. One of the dead is Mrs. A. Sherman Ellsworth of Laguna Hills, Calif., a cousin of the Rev. Homer J.R. Elford, senior minister at Trinity United Methodist Church.

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the case of Leonard Hodory, a Youngstown steelworker who was one of 1,250 workers at U.S. Steel who were refused unemployment compensation by the state of Ohio when he was laid off due to a mine workers strike.

1967: Campbell police, acting on a tip, surround the Campbell Post Office and capture three men who were inside trying to crack a safe.

Forty rooms at the Bethlehem Church of Christ on Midlothian Avenue are ransacked. The Rev. Gerald Alles suspects the damage is the work of burglars looking for the Easter Sunday collection.

Youngstown State University will be geared to serve 20,000 students by 1975 if it becomes a state institution, says YU President Albert R. Pugsley.

1942: After touring area steel plants, Ohio Gov. George Bricker says that “the wheels of industry in the Mahoning Valley are moving for war, and that assures victory.”

Sgt. Theodore Heden says only 100 of the 650 men who registered showed up for the first six classes at Youngstown’s auxiliary police school.

The Youngstown vice squad arrests three and grabs 1,000 “bug” slips.

Because jurors are hard to find, given the war, defense work and agricultural demands, Trumbull County experiments with an eight-person jury in civil cases, when both sides agree.