YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 17

Today is Sunday, March 17, the 76th day of 2019. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick’s Day.

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On this date in:

1762: New York City holds its first St. Patrick’s Day parade.

1776: The Revolutionary War Siege of Boston ends as British forces evacuated the city.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: A 27-year-old Youngstown man who threatened to give AIDS to sexual partners is arrested on accusations he raped a 12-year-old girl. He is being held at Woodside Hospital.

Youngstown City Council approves $20,000 to buy as many as 5,000 smoke detectors that Fire Chief Hector Colon says will be installed in homes of low- to moderate-income families.

1979: The FBI and Trumbull County deputy sheriffs arrest five men, four from the Youngstown area, after they allegedly took over $1 million in gold and diamonds from two safes in LeRoy’s Jewelry in the Eastwood Mall.

Herbert Caldwell resigns as chairman of the Warren-Trumbull Community Services Agency after telling other board members that he did not feel he was given proper respect by agency staff.

1969: Atty. William B. Spagnola, 72, former Youngstown mayor and municipal judge, dies of jaundice and complications in North Side Hospital. City Hall will be closed for his funeral.

Grant Knavel, retired Air Force sergeant, is headed to Colorado in a converted school bus with Richard Suggert and John Ruse to pick up buffalo. He plans to start a buffalo farm near Salem.

1944: Patsy Galioto, 58, loses his legs after falling under a train, but his life was saved by several blood transfusions, including one from Robert Irwin, an ambulance driver who took Galioto to the hospital.

County Commissioner Thomas Bees says a bond issue to construct a new Mahoning County Home should be proposed since sufficient funds to adequately modernize the present one will never be available from the general fund.

Detectives are investigating the discovery of two human skulls submerged in water in a dump off Detroit Avenue. Three boys, Arthur Greenfield, George Kesner and Anthony Gentile, playing in the dump found them.