YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 24

Today is Sunday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2019. There are 282 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1765: Britain enacts the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.

1832: A mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacks, tars and feathers Mormon leaders Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.

1882: German scientist Robert Koch reveals in Berlin that he has discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.

1944: In occupied Rome, the Nazis execute more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that killed 32 German soldiers.

1955: The Tennessee Williams play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opens on Broadway.

1958: Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army at the draft board in Memphis, Tenn., before boarding a bus for Fort Chaffee, Ark. (Presley underwent basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, before being shipped off to Germany.)

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1994: Youngstown officials will launch a food-for-guns program using $5,000 donated by Commercial Intertech to buy food cards. A similar program in Columbus resulted in 1,800 guns being surrendered.

Leson Dinnerware, 7633 South Ave., is getting orders from around the United States and several foreign countries for plates decorated with railroad locomotives. “After our first ad in Trains magazine, our phones rang off the hook with people calling for orders,” owner Michael Leson says.

1979: The Youngstown area’s eight A&P supermarkets will be closed, along with 166 others in the Cleveland, Cincinnati and Milwaukee districts, and its Salem meat-processing plant.

Dr. David Behen, emeritus professor of history at Youngstown State University, tells 853 graduates at the ninth winter commencement that a university must never lose sight of its responsibility to help students “find the way up.”

A fire of undetermined origin guts the Fellowship Baptist Church at 341 E. Rayen Ave.

1969: Production of Pontiac Firebird models will be shifted from the Lords-town assembly plant to Norwood, Ohio, to allow Lordstown to expand production of regular-sized Chevrolets.

David Kerr, 39, of Southern Boulevard, dies in a Pittsburgh hospital 12 days after being severely burned at the Ohio Edison Sammis plant on the Ohio River.

A pet deer owned by the Franciscans of Mount Alverna Friary on Belle Vista Avenue broke loose and was chased by five Youngstown and two Mill Creek Park police cruisers before being corralled and returned to the friary.

1944: Dr. Robert Galbreath, president of Westminster College, New Wilmingon, Pa., announces that Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I flying ace, will receive an honorary degree at the 90th annual commencement on May 20.

C. Myron Clegg, 28, a former Youngstown man, opens a business in New York City after serving two years in the Navy. He’s advising men of means where they can find Gotham City’s “toniest joints.”

William Mauerman of Hillman Street ate lunch at a downtown tavern, but when he reached for his wallet to pay the bill, he found that a pickpocket had taken it and the $100 in it.