YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 1

Today is Friday, March 1, the 60th day of 2019. There are 305 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1781: The Continental Congress declares the Articles of Confederation to be in force after ratification by Maryland.

1790: President George Washington authorizes the first United States Census.

1893: Inventor Nikola Tesla first publicly demonstrates radio in St. Louis.

1932: Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. (Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.)

1961: President John F. Kennedy signs an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.

1971: A bomb goes off inside a men’s room at the U.S. Capitol; the radical group Weather Underground claims responsibility for the pre-dawn blast.

1974: Seven people, including former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, former Attorney General John Mitchell and former assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian, are indicted on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice in connection with the Watergate break-in.

1981: Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later.

2018: President Donald Trump announces that the U.S. will impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Two Youngstown women, 21 and 22, are charged in the carjacking in which a Campbell man was shot and wounded outside Northside Medical Center.

An effort by local governments to recover $48,887 in wage taxes collected by Sharon Steel Corp. but not forwarded to the jurisdictions was rejected by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and that rejection is upheld by a federal district court in Pittsburgh. The money is owed to Farrell, Hermitage and the Hermitage school district.

A World War II-era B-17 that was painted to portray the Memphis Belle for a movie of that name is on display at the Beaver County, Pa., Airport.

1979: A 15-year-old North Side boy is shot and killed and a 17-year-old wounded during an apparent burglary at the Pit B-B-Q, 534 Fifth Ave. A man who lived in the basement of the restaurant interrupted the burglary and opened fire.

Jim Reed, Neshannock Township, Pa., police chief, files a charge of willful obstruction against a North Hill woman accused of refusing to surrender a party line to allow a neighbor to call the fire department. The charge was dismissed because no one could identify the voice of the woman who refused to hang up, even when told that the house was on fire.

GF Business Equipment Inc. continues its business turnaround in the fourth quarter of 1978, reporting net earnings of $368,344 on sales of $152 million.

1969: Mahoning County projected revenue for 1969 is $5.8 million, about $98,000 less than in 1968. Commissioners must cut $1.3 million from budget requests by elected officials, the courts and department heads.

Operating Engineers Local 60 offers a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for bombing the home of business agent Calvin Malone, 382 Mathews Road.

1944: Marine Major Milton V. O’Connell, home from duty in the South Pacific, tells 850 workers and civic leaders at the Central YMCA for the opening of the Red Cross War Fund Drive that “the Red Cross means life itself.” The Youngstown goal is $563,000.

Youngstown and Mahoning County industries are ordered to adopt a 48-hour work week, effective April 1, in an order issued by Robert Goodwin, Cleveland regional director of War Manpower Commission.