YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 5

Today is Tuesday, March 5, the 64th day of 2019. There are 301 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1770: The Boston Massacre takes place as British soldiers who’d been taunted by a crowd of colonists open fire, killing five people.

1868: The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson begins in the U.S. Senate.

1933: In German parliamentary elections, the Nazi Party wins 44 percent of the vote; the Nazis join with a conservative nationalist party to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.

1953: Soviet dictator Josef Stalin dies after three decades in power.

1955: Elvis Presley makes his television debut on “Louisiana Hayride” carried by KSLA-TV Shreveport.

1963: Country music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins die in the crash of their plane, a Piper Comanche, near Camden, Tenn., along with pilot Randy Hughes (Cline’s manager).

1982: Comedian John Belushi is found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was 33.

2002: President George W. Bush slaps punishing tariffs of 8 to 30 percent on several types of imported steel in an effort to aid the ailing U.S. industry.

2018: House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican allies of President Donald Trump plead with him to back away from his threatened tariffs, but Trump responds, “We’re not backing down.”

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: The Ohio Department of Transportation agrees to extend a rail line to the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport as part of the state’s commitment to make a jetport project a reality.

U.S. Rep. Rick Santorum, a Pittsburgh Republican seeking his party’s nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Harris Woffard, says during an appearance at the Lawrence County Government Center that welfare recipients should lose cash benefits after two years because welfare is becoming a way of life for too many people.

A drive-by shooting near Victory Field on Youngstown’s East Side kills Frederick Brown, 18, for the city’s 11th homicide of the year, compared with five a year earlier.

1979: The Youngstown Fraternal Order of Police honors three men at its banquet: the Rev. Edward Stanton, director of the Ecumenical Coalition of the Mahoning Valley; Robert Pegues, former superintendent of Youngstown schools; and Dr. Thomas Shipka, professor of philosophy at Youngstown State University.

Anthony B. Flask, 73, three-time mayor of Youngstown and president of the Union Distributing Co. in Girard, dies at his Carlotta Drive home after a one-year illness.

Sister Jerome Corcoran OSU, director of the Mill Creek Childhood Center, is named Irishwoman of the Year by the Ancient Order of the Hibernians. John Regis Reddington, circulation manager of the Catholic Exponent, is Irishman of the Year.

1969: The Special Taxation committee of the Chamber of Commerce says Youngstown faces an “unpleasant financial situation” just a year after increasing the income tax rate to 1.5 percent.

A 71-year-old man is being held in the wounding of his 17-year-old son in an argument over 25 cents in a card game.

Robert Pondillo, a Fitch High senior, takes second place in the national finals of the high school broadcast script-writing competition sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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1944: William J. Welsh, 46, a veteran of World War I, is named county investigator by Prosecutor William Ambrose to succeed the late John Callan, who was killed in an auto accident.

Motorists who haven’t endorsed their gasoline coupons with the name of their state and license numbers have a week to do so or risk loss of the rations as part of a crackdown on black-market transactions.