YEARS AGO FOR MARCH 25

Today is Monday, March 25, the 84th day of 2019. There are 281 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1634: English colonists sent by Lord Baltimore arrive in present-day Maryland.

1865: During the Civil War, Confederate forces attack Fort Stedman in Virginia but are forced to withdraw because of counterattacking Union troops.

1894: Jacob S. Coxey begins leading an “army” of unemployed people from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington D.C., to demand help from the federal government.

1911: One hundred forty-six people, mostly young female immigrants, are killed when fire breaks out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York.

1931: In the so-called “Scottsboro Boys” case, nine young black men are taken off a train in Alabama, accused of raping two white women.

1965: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. leads 25,000 people to the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery after a five-day march from Selma to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.

1990: Eighty-seven people, most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants, are killed when fire raced through an illegal social club in New York City.

2006: In Los Angeles, half a million people march to protest federal legislation to make illegal immigration a felony and build more walls along the border.

2018: In an interview with “60 Minutes,” adult film star Stormy Daniels says she has been threatened and warned to keep silent about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006.

VINDICATOR FILES

1994: Seven-year-old Domonique Lemon is credited with saving the life of her mother, Diane Craft of Austintown, by applying the Heimlich maneuver, dislodging a piece of meat that had lodged in her throat.

Scott Schulick, YSU student government president, says he’s upset by another proposed tuition increase that will mean tuition will be 33 percent higher than four years earlier. Still, Schulick says, YSU will be among the lowest-cost schools in the state system.

Former Ohio Gov. Richard F. Celeste and his wife, Dagmar, announce that they are ending their 31-year marriage.

1979: Robert P. Beatty, tower chief at Youngs-town Municipal Airport, says the FAA will put its new instrument-landing radar system into operation April 1.

General Motors Corp. is investing $2.7 billion in its line of 1980 models.

Elden Miller, head basketball coach of the Ohio State University Buckeyes, will be the featured speaker at the Trumbull County Coaches Association meeting at Alberini’s Restaurant.

1969: The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority will advertise for bids for a second high-rise apartment with 134 units for low-income elderly.

James Dawson, vice president and economist for National City Bank of Cleveland, speaks to 50 members of the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers and predicts an economic boom for the Mahoning Valley in the next decade.

Vandals cause thousands of dollars in damage to the interior of the Sherwood Forest home of Dr. Anthony Bayuk, St. Alban Drive. Electronic equipment is taken.

1944: First Lt. John C. Edwards, 24, of Youngstown, and S/Sgt. William M. Rickard of Niles, are missing in action in the Mediterranean area.

Pfc. Robert Whittle of Youngstown is in an overseas hospital recovering from wounds received in Italy. The former employee of Cold Metal Products is awarded the Purple Heart.

The new ballroom on the second floor of the YWCA high-school branch building will be formally dedicated with a dance party for 1,200 members.