YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 23

Today is Saturday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2019. There are 283 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this day in:

1775: Patrick Henry delivers an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he declares, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

1806: Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, begin their journey back east.

1914: The first installment of “The Perils of Pauline,” the silent film serial starring Pearl White, premieres in New York City.

1942: The first Japanese-Americans evacuated by the U.S. Army during World War II arrive at the internment camp in Manzanar, Calif.

1965: America’s first two-person space mission takes place as Gemini 3 blasts off with astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom and John W. Young aboard for a nearly 5-hour flight.

1983: Dr. Barney Clark, recipient of a Jarvik permanent artificial heart, dies at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112 days with the device.

1998: “Titanic” ties an Academy Awards record by winning 11 Oscars, including best picture, director (James Cameron) and song (”My Heart Will Go On”).

2018: A French-Moroccan gunman kills four people before being killed by police in southern France who stormed a supermarket where he had taken hostages.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Youngstown school officials blame unfounded rumors of violence for a flurry of activity at Woodrow Wilson High School and for the early departure of about 100 students.

A former Trumbull County man and his fianc e file suit as John and Jane Doe seeking $50 million from various state and local government entities saying that he was falsely accused of trying to infect others with the AIDS virus.

Police say that among the crowd of about 75 people protesting a weekend drug raid at Youngstown’s Westlake Terrace Apartments were eight to 10 known felons and others who were “imported” for the occasion.

1979: The ex-wife of Dr. Leo DiBlasio, Dorothy Mae DiBlasio of Columbus, is secretly indicted by the Trumbull County grand jury, accused of hiring a hit man to kill Dr. DiBlasio and his second wife.

Anthony Mariotti, 90, of Bedford Road, Poland Township, is killed while trying to put out a grass fire with a shovel behind his home.

Playing at Wedgewood Cinema: “Norma Rae” starring Sally Field; at the Southern Park and Eastwood cinemas: “The China Syndrome,” starring Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas, and at Movie World: “The Deer Hunter,” starring Robert De Niro.

1969: The first flock of migrating whistling swans arrives in the Youngstown area on the same week that hundreds of the giant birds have been stopping here for the last seven years.

The top three spellers in the 16th annual Diocesan spelling bee are presented certificates: Anita Hanrahan, Sherry Clark and Laurel Staschak.

Republican Gov. James A. Rhodes urges directors of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and the conglomerate Lykes Corp. to reconsider their proposed merger.

1944: Pvt. John P. Krajeski, 21, of Youngstown is one of seven soldiers killed on a rifle range at Camp Bowie, Texas, in an explosion of a mortar shell.

Youngstowners get a view of the world’s biggest non-rigid airship, the Akron-built M-4, which flew over the city on its test flights before being turned over to the U.S. Navy.

A chubby little hand patted the sturdy shoulder of Sgt. John Landers, home in Youngstown after many months of grueling overseas action. The battle veteran was introduced to his 14-month-old son at the bus terminal.