Today is Sunday, Dec. 29, the 363rd day of 2002. There are two days left in the year. On this date

Today is Sunday, Dec. 29, the 363rd day of 2002. There are two days left in the year. On this date in 1890, the Wounded Knee massacre takes place in South Dakota as some 300 Sioux Indians are killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.
In 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in England. In 1808, the 17th president of the United States, Andrew Johnson, is born in Raleigh, N.C. In 1813, the British burn Buffalo, N.Y., during the War of 1812. In 1845, Texas is admitted as the 28th state. In 1851, the first American Young Men's Christian Association is organized, in Boston. In 1934, Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. In 1940, during World War II, Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London. In 1957, singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are married in Las Vegas, Nev. In 1975, a bomb explodes in the main terminal of New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people. In 1996, war-weary guerrilla and government leaders in Guatemala sign an accord ending 36 years of civil conflict.
December 29, 1977: The Mahoning County Sheriff's Department files a murder charge against Linda Hamilton in the October death of her husband, David, at their home in North Lima. Her whereabouts are unknown. Beaver Township officers who investigated the murder were unconvinced that there was enough evidence to bring charges and were surprised by the sheriff's action.
The Packard Electric Corp. employed an average of 12,000 people in 1977 and paid $212 million in wages, the Warren-based division of General Motors reports.
The challenges of 1978 will be as great as those of eight years ago, Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter says in his annual -- and final -- state of the city address to City Council.
December 29, 1962: Police Chief William R. Golden, disturbed over the traffic death of a 68-year-old Albert St. man, says his department will not mollycoddle drunks over the New Year's holiday. He urges hosts at house parties to make provisions so that guests don't drive drunk.
George L. Wick, 74, retired secretary of the Mahoning Valley Steel Co., dies in his sleep at his residence, 2219 Fifth Ave.
Nine young men are found guilty of drag race participation in Niles Municipal Court after being arrested Dec. 1 in Ohltown-McDonald Road. Each is fined $200 and costs and is given a six-month license suspension.
December 29, 1952: Angry air pilots charge that the Civil Aeronautics Administration "is playing politics with the safety of people using the Youngstown Municipal Airport" by allowing a controversial Air Force water tower to remain.
Two teen-aged motorists, clocked by a police radar patrol at 75 miles an hour in McGuffey Road, are arrested for reckless driving.
Many Youngstown district entertainment places are putting the soft-pedal on expensive New Year's Eve festivities. The emphasis seems to be on low prices.
December 29, 1927: A maid and two young boys are locked up in a room in the Warren Avenue home of Mrs. Harry B. Burt by a lone robber who threatened them with a pistol. Mary Cevula, the maid, was alone in the house with Richard Burt, 8, and a playmate, George Schurm. The house was ransacked, but nothing was apparently taken.
Mill Creek Park and the Mill Creek Valley continued to be an attractive habitat for birds wintering there. The 25th Christmas bird census enumerates 888 individual birds of 27 species in the park.