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Theresa Lanzon was born. Robin Shapiro was born.

Madison Lyman was born. Michael "Mickey" Layden was born.

1775 - Patrick Henry declared "Give me liberty or give me death."

1806 - Lewis and Clark began their return

Tara Stackpole was born. Jeffrey Williams-Maisonet was born.

1958- Rock 'n' roll star Elvis Presley joined the U.S. army for two years.

1989 - In one of the worst oil spills in recent history, the tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground and released 240,000 barrels of oil into Prince William Sound.

1945 - The battle of Iwo Jima ended; about 22,000 Japanese troops were killed or captured in the fighting and more than 4,500 U.S. troops were killed.

2000 - Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia.

MARCH 27

Tara Walter was born.

1884 - The first long-distance telephone call was made, between Boston and New York. 2001 - A federal judge ruled that the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policy was invalid, a ruling that later would be reversed in an appeal.

MARCH 28

Kate Johnson was born. Yarden Flatow was born.

1939 - The Spanish Civil War ended. 1979 - Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania occured.

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1634 - Maryland was founded by settlers sent by the late Lord Baltimore.

Marisa O’Brien was born. Chris Owens was born. Kelly Byrnes was born. Katrina Visco was born.

1827 - Composer Ludwig van Beethoven died at age 56 in Vienna, Austria.

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MARCH 29

Grace Leahy was born. Davina Grincevicius was born. Chris Howard was born.

1973 - The last U.S. troops left South Vietnam.

1999 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 10,000 for the first time, at 10,006.78.

Far Rock Man Gets 17 Years for Manslaughter

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On Wednesday, March 22, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Atekel Donaldson was sentenced to 17 years in prison for the death of a 15-year-old getting off of a city bus in Far Rockaway in February 2018.

District Attorney Katz said: “A teenager’s life was senselessly cut short by gun violence, which continues to steal family, friends, and loved ones from our communities. We cannot relent until we end the plague of illegal guns on our streets.”

Donaldson, 26, of Bay 32nd Street in Far Rockaway, pleaded guilty in December to manslaughter in the first degree. Justice Kenneth Holder sentenced him to a determinate term of 17 years in prison followed by five years post-release supervision.

According to the charges, on Thursday, February 8, 2018, at approximately 4:06 pm, in front of 46-15 Beach Channel Drive, Donaldson approached the victim, Youssef Soliman, 15, as he was getting off of a city bus in Far Rockaway. Donaldson shot Soliman twice, striking him in the hand and torso, fatally wounding him.

Senior Assistant District Attorney Kenneth Zawistowski of the District Attorney’s Homicide Bureau is prosecuting the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Peter J. McCormack, III and John W. Kosinski, Senior Deputy Chiefs, and Karen Ross Deputy Chief, and under the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Shawn Clark.