Monday, March 18, 2019
Today is Monday, March 18, the 77th day of 2019. There are 288 days left in the year.
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On this date in:
1766: Britain repeals the Stamp Act of 1765.
1925: The Tri-State Tornado strikes southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois and southwestern Indiana, resulting in some 700 deaths.
1937: In America’s worst school disaster, nearly 300 people, most of them children, are killed in a natural gas explosion at the New London Consolidated School in Rusk County, Texas.
1940: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass, where the Italian dictator agrees to join Germany’s war against France and Britain.
1959: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Hawaii statehood bill.
1963: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Gideon v. Wainwright, rules unanimously that state courts are required to provide legal counsel to criminal defendants who can’t afford to hire an attorney.
1965: The first spacewalk takes place as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov goes outside his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether.
2005: Doctors in Florida, acting on orders of a state judge, remove Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube.
2017: Chuck Berry, rock ’n’ roll’s founding guitar hero and storyteller who defined the music’s joy and rebellion in such classics as “Johnny B. Goode,” ‘’Sweet Little Sixteen” and “Roll Over Beethoven,” dies at his home west of St. Louis at age 90.
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1994: Warren police are investigating allegations of cheating on state-mandated ninth-grade proficiency tests. Superintendent Louis Cardamone said that a single student may have cheated, but there was no mass cheating.
The Columbiana Exempted Village Board of Education says schools will be in session the Monday after Easter and the day after graduation to make up for excessive weather days taken during the school year. State law allows the closing of schools for bad weather for a maximum of five days.
Mike Zaccaro, 30, of Colorado, visiting the Canfield home where he grew up, jumped into a freezing pond to save his 80-pound Labrador pup, Zak, that fell through the ice and disappeared.
1979: Robert D. Parks, 34, of Youngstown is charged in the Dec. 1977 murders of Patricia DiBlasio, 40, and Mary Muffley, 36, the wife and receptionist of Dr. Leo DiBlasio outside the doctor’s Girard office.
There was no luck on St. Patrick’s Day for Youngstown area teams as previously unbeaten Rayen as well as Warren Western Reserve and Sebring were eliminated in regional championship basketball games at Canton.
A new cooperative relationship between Republican Gov. James A. Rhodes and Democratic legislative leaders may result in major tax abatements to attract industries to Youngstown, Warren and 12 other Ohio cities.
1969: Atty. James B. Bennett Jr. is elected resident of the Youngstown Area Community Corp. at the annual meeting at the YMCA. Thomas Travers, president of Commercial Shearing & Stamping Co., will head the Youngstown Area United Appeal.
Marine machine gunner Pfc. Melvin E. Newlin from Wellsville is awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for bravery in the Vietnam War. The nation’s highest award for gallantry is accepted from President Richard Nixon at the White House by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Newlin.
Trumbull County unionized employees are on the job after accepting a “take it or leave it” ultimatum on a new contract issued by commissioners Lamar Young and Gary Thompson.
1944: Owners or operators of five more filling stations in the Youngstown district have their licenses to operate suspended for violating gas rationing regulations.
Fire caused by a kerosene explosion in a kitchen stove kills Mrs. James A. Grier, mother of seven children, at the family home on Route 165 south of Greenford.