YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 9

Today is Saturday, March 9, the 68th day of 2019. There are 297 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1796: The future emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte, marries Josephine de Beauharnais. (The couple later divorced.)

1933: Congress, called into special session by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, begins its “hundred days” of enacting New Deal legislation.

1935: The animated cartoon character Porky Pig first appears in the Warner Bros. animated short “I Haven’t Got a Hat.”

1945: During World War II, U.S. B-29 bombers begin launching incendiary bomb attacks against Tokyo, resulting in an estimated 100,000 deaths.

1964: The U.S. Supreme Court, in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, raises the standard for public officials to prove they’d been libeled in their official capacity by news organizations.

1997: Gangsta rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) is killed in a still-unsolved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles; he was 24.

2018: A combat veteran who’d been expelled from a treatment program at a California veterans home fatally shoots three mental health workers there before taking his own life.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Youngstown State University Football Coach Jim Tressel takes on additional responsibility as the university’s athletic director. Joe Malmisur will assume the title of director of athletic development.

A crowd of 75 attends a meeting of the board of the Mahoning County Children Services board to support Paul and Angeline Paronish of Girard who were denied the adoption of three foster children.

U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown says he has changed his position on a balanced budget amendment, telling The Vindicator he now supports it as a means of enforcing discipline on Congress.

1979: Reflecting an expected increase in oil drilling, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. begins receiving shipments of tube rounds from Aliquippa, Pa., to supply the Campbell Works’ two seamless tube mills.

Comedian Orson Bean gets a key to the city when he arrives in Youngstown as the speaker at the Junior League’s Town Hall series. Twenty-five years ago, Bean joked on “The Ed Sullivan Show” that a trip to Youngstown would be the booby prize in a contest he was describing.

Farrell City Council gives unanimous final approval to an ordinance toughening the requirement that city employees live within the city limits.

1969: Youngstown Law Director Patrick Melillo emphatically refuses to prepare legislation requested by Councilman Jack C. Hunter that would allow municipal court judges and the police chief to decide that an arrestee could be detained without bail.

Dr. Albert Pugsley, president of Youngstown State University, will join an armada of Ohio educators in Columbus as they oppose a bill proposing a 40-hour work week for university faculty.

More than 3,000 boys, age 9 through 17, take part in the Youngstown Park and Recreation winter program that used nine gymnasiums around the city.

1944: Guy G. Clupper, superintendent of the Mahoning County Home, says it is impossible to keep a 47-year-old building housing 318 inmates, some mental cases, kept in barred basement rooms, with only 16 employees, including dairy and farm hands.

Youngstown contributes 179 pints of blood to the Cleveland mobile blood unit, exceeding its goal by 4 pints on the first day of collection at First Presbyterian Church.

Richard Overmyer, district information executive of the Cleveland Regional Office of Price Administration, says 50 motorists in Youngstown have been interviewed in a check on gasoline ration coupon endorsements.