YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 6
Today is Wednesday, March 6, the 65th day of 2019. There are 300 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1475: Italian artist and poet Michelangelo is born in Caprese in the Republic of Florence.
1836: The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, falls as Mexican forces led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna storm the fortress after a 13-day siege; the battle claimed the lives of all the Texan defenders, nearly 200 strong, including William Travis, James Bowie and Davy Crockett.
1857: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, rules 7-2 that Scott, a slave, was not an American citizen and therefore could not sue for his freedom in federal court.
1912: Oreo sandwich cookies are first introduced by the National Biscuit Co.
1944: U.S. heavy bombers stage the first full-scale American raid on Berlin during World War II.
1953: Georgy Malenkov is named premier of the Soviet Union a day after the death of Josef Stalin.
1964: Heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay officially changes his name .
2008: A Palestinian kills eight students at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem before he is slain; Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip praise the operation in a statement, and thousands of Palestinians take to the streets of Gaza to celebrate.
2016: Former first lady Nancy Reagan dies in Los Angeles at age 94.
VINDICATOR FILES
1994: The Uptown Theater, home to Easy Street Productions in recent years, is the latest business in its Market Street neighborhood to face financial problems, and its owner, Jim Wilcox, says he may have to sell it.
Robert Armstrong, grand dragon of the Ohio Ku Klux Klan, leads a rally of about 20 robed Klansmen in Painesville. Protesters who outnumbered the Klansmen threw snowballs, but Kenneth Nemerovsky of Warren saw the rally as a success because it “let the people of Painesville know that the Klan is back.”
Nearly 88 percent of white seniors in Youngstown schools have passed all four parts of the test needed to graduate, but only 66 percent of black seniors have passed all four parts.
1979: Youngstown, which saw its last passenger train rumble through more than two years ago, may get direct rail service to New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Cleveland if Congress approves a major reorganization of Amtrak.
A petition signed by 73 people is submitted to Cortland Village Council by residents objecting to a proposed water tower on school property near the Shepherd’s Hill allotment.
Ohio Sen. Harry Meshel of Youngstown attends a White House briefing on President Jimmy Carter’s anti-recession program.
1969: Some 9,000 employees of the Packard Electric Division of General Motors at seven manufacturing plants walk off the job in what the company says is a wildcat strike over the firing of an employee who allegedly struck a supervisor.
Peter M. Wellman, well-known Liberty Township businessman who once owned 12 theaters in the area, dies at South Side Hospital after suffering a heart attack.
A mortgage for $2 million to cover the cost of four high-rise, low-rent housing developments in East Liverpool is recorded at the Columbiana County Court House. The loan is to Housing Associates of Chicago.
1944: Youngstown high school students become city officials for the annual Hi-Y Civic Day. Michael Stetts of East High is mayor and Robert Kuba is president of council.
John Phelps of Butler, Pa., conductor for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, is killed in the Haseltine Yards after slipping and falling under one of the cars of his train.
Robert Connell, 34, of Sebring is discharged from South Side Hospital after treatment of injuries he received when the Penn-Ohio bus he was driving collided with two tractor-trailers hauling steel.