YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 7

Today is Thursday, March 7, the 66th day of 2019. There are 299 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1793: During the French Revolutionary Wars, France declares war on Spain.

1850: In a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts endorses the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.

1911: President William Howard Taft orders 20,000 troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.

1926: The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations take place between New York and London.

1936: Adolf Hitler orders his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.

1965: A march by civil-rights demonstrators is violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what would come to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”

1994: The U.S. Navy issues its first permanent orders assigning women to regular duty on a combat ship.

2018: The White House says Mexico, Canada and other countries could be spared from President Donald Trump’s planned steel and aluminum tariffs under national security “carve-outs.”

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Mayor Patrick Ungaro says the city has plans to restore or replace the facades on six buildings on the south side of West Federal Street that the city bought for $190,000. The only tenant in the buildings at present is Masters Tuxedo and Costume Rental.

Christians, Jews and Muslims meet at the Arab Community Center in Youngstown to mourn the recent killings of 30 Palestinian Muslims at a mosque in Hebron and 10 Maronite Catholics killed in their church in Lebanon.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency says 26 out-of-service and leaking transformers at the former GF Corp. site on Logan Avenue must be removed and cleaned up before the property can be redeveloped.

1979: The Ecumenical Coalition of the Mahoning Valley urges the Ohio Senate Finance Committee to recommend approval of a $10 million grant to help the reopening of the former Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.’s Campbell Works.

No Republican candidates file for city council races in New Castle, Pa.

Youngstown Mayor J. Phillip Richley says any additional funds the city may receive from President Jimmy Carter’s fiscal assistance program has already been promised to city employees in the form of pay raises.

1969: Mayor Anthony B. Flask announces that the city’s Fair Employment Practices Committee has launched an “affirmative action” program to recruit minority group members to city employment.

Seven boys – three from Mahoning County and four from Trumbull County – charged with seven burglaries in Liberty Township are placed on probation and ordered to make restitution.

Stamps worth $50,000, an undermined number of negotiable bond blanks and about $200 in cash are stolen from a walk-in vault at the Niles Post Office. The post office is next to the police department.

1944: No fewer than 28 baseball players who at one time or another wore the uniform of the Youngstown Browns are now wearing the uniform of Uncle Sam.

Pvt. Robert Landis, 23, a Rayen graduate and student at Youngstown College, is killed in a crossfire of Japanese machine guns in the North Burma Jungle.

The Stagecraft Club at South High School will present its 20th anniversary play, “Let Us Be Glamorous” at the school. E.G. Diehm, faculty director, has kept track of the number of romances that have developed among past cast members.