YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 21
Today is Thursday, March 21, the 80th day of 2019. There are 285 days left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1556: Thomas Cranmer, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, is burned at the stake for heresy.
1685: Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany.
1788: Fire breaks out in New Orleans on Good Friday, destroying 856 out of more than 1,100 structures; one death is reported.
1925: Tennessee Gov. Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, which prohibits the teaching of the Theory of Evolution in public schools. (Tennessee repealed the law in 1967.)
1935: Persia officially changes its name to Iran.
1945: During World War II, Allied bombers begin four days of raids over Germany.
1981: Michael Donald, a black teenager in Mobile, Ala., is abducted, tortured and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
2006: The social media website Twitter is established with the sending of the first “tweet” by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who writes: “just setting up my twttr.”
2007: Former Vice President Al Gore makes an emotional return to Congress as he pleads with House and Senate committees to fight global warming; skeptical Republicans question the science behind his climate-change documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
VINDICATOR FILES
1994: The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approves a new rate structure that will cut the cost of phone calls between United Telephone customers in Warren and Ohio Bell customers in Youngstown.
The Youngstown City School District spent more than the state average for vocational and special education students in 1992, but spent $2,354 for every regular education student, 6 percent less than the state average.
Former Columbiana County Treasurer Ardel Strabala, 55, is sentenced to a maximum of 18 months in prison and fined $2,500 for his role in the loss of $9.9 million in county funds. He can apply for shock probation after 30 or 90 days.
1979: George Vukovich, clerk of city council, files candidacy petitions for the Democratic nomination for mayor.
R. Thornton Beeghly announces that Thomas A. Cleary Jr., former top-ranking Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and Lykes Corp. official, will become executive vice president of Standard Slag Co. in a major realignment of the Youngstown-headquartered company.
A 140-foot concrete section falls from a bridge over Akron’s busy West Expressway, crushing a car and killing instantly John Barrickman, pastor of Bible Temple of God of Barberton, and his wife, Patricia. Both were 33.
1969: The Youngstown YMCA Development Fund Campaign reaches $1.5 million and is extended for 10 days in the hope that the $2 million goal can be met.
A 20-year-old Hughes Street man convicted of kidnapping and robbery of a South Side woman is sentenced by Judge Forrest Cavalier to 10 to 20 years on robbery and 5 to 30 years for abduction.
Joseph W. Gottlieb, 90, a life-long self-styled rebel who waged many colorful battles against public officials during more than 65 years in Youngstown, dies of a heart ailment at Heritage Manor.
1944: City Council takes the first step toward municipal garbage collection by authorizing the board of control to purchase nine garbage trucks from the DeBartolo Co. for $9,051.
Morris Moyer is honored on the 75th anniversary of his birth and the 50th anniversary of his founding of the Moyer Manufacturing Co. Employees present him with a plaque praising his high integrity, sound business judgment, fairness and good humor.
Canfield Players open with “What a Life” at Canfield Community Theater. Leading roles are played by Bill Wallace, Dr. John Cavanaugh, Mrs. John Wilson, Howard Davidson and Miss Betty Stoner.