YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 4


Today is Monday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2019. There are 302 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1791: Vermont becomes the 14th state.

1793: George Washington is sworn in for a second term as president of the United States during a ceremony in Philadelphia.

1865: President Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated for a second term of office; with the end of the Civil War in sight, Lincoln declared: “With malice toward none, with charity for all.”

1913: The “Buffalo nickel” officially goes into circulation.

1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt takes office as America’s 32nd president.

1952: Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis are married in California.

1974: The first issue of People magazine, then called People Weekly, is published by Time-Life Inc.; on the cover is actress Mia Farrow.

1994: In New York, four extremists are convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured more than a thousand.

1998: The U.S. Supreme Court rules sexual harassment at work can be illegal even when the offender and victim are the same gender.

2004: Martha Stewart, imprisoned for five months for her role in a stock scandal, leaves federal prison to start five months of home confinement.

2018: “The Shape of Water” wins the Oscar for best picture and in three other categories.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: General Motors Corp. President Jack Smith tells leaders of the United Auto Workers that because of strong demand for GM cars and trucks, plant closings announced over the last two years “are not set in stone.”

Dave Hartman, who during 12 seasons chalked up a record of 92-35, resigns as head football coach of Austintown Fitch.

After being indicted on charges he bilked Columbiana County taxpayers out of nearly $10 million, Stephen Strabala tells the court he is indigent and asks for court-appointed defense attorney.

1979: A gallon of heating oil in the Youngstown area has tripled in five years since the Arab oil embargo, going from 17.9 cents a gallon to 52.8 cents.

Damage is estimated at $50,000 in a fire on the second floor of the Mineral Ridge fire station.

James Burkett, a 1958 graduate of Youngstown University and former production coordinator at WYTV, is named media coordinator at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

1969: Bert T. Olson is named general manager of the Packard Electric Division of General Motors, succeeding George W. Chestnut.

About 25 Negro students at Hiram College stage a sit-in at the main classroom building to protest alleged racism at the college.

A gunman fires three shotgun blasts through a door, striking a pinball machine at Lonnie’s Gulf station in Green Township. Owner Lonnie Wellman says a man representing himself as a police officer came to the station two weeks earlier and told him to get rid of the machine.

1944: Sheriff Ralph Elser says he and his men are immune to political bosses and their racketeer friends and invites a Canfield audience to name any house of ill fame or unlawful club in Mahoning County and he will raid it.

A wet snow from the northwest makes streets and highways extremely hazardous. Nine people were injured in accidents, and buses were off schedule.

Robert Bell decisions Jack Reardon to win the 112-pound championship in what proved to be the feature bout in the Lexington Settlement’s “High Chair” tournament.

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