Today is Tuesday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2003. There are 29 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2003. There are 29 days left in the year. On this date in 1823, President Monroe outlines his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere.
In 1804, Napoleon is crowned emperor of France. In 1859, militant abolitionist John Brown is hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry the previous October. In 1942, a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is demonstrated for the first time at the University of Chicago. In 1943, "Carmen Jones," Oscar Hammerstein II's contemporary reworking of the Bizet opera "Carmen" with an all-black cast, opens on Broadway. In 1954, the Senate votes to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." In 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency begins operating under director William Ruckelshaus. In 1980, four American churchwomen are raped, murdered and buried outside San Salvador. (Five national guardsmen are convicted in the killings.) In 1982, in the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implant a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Dr. Barney Clark, who lived 112 days with the device. In 1991, American hostage Joseph Cicippio, held captive in Lebanon for more than five years, is released. In 2001, in one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in U.S. history, Enron files for Chapter 11 protection.
December 2, 1978: A state-mandated reappraisal will result in residential land values in Trumbull County increasing by about 10 percent, says county Auditor Patrick J. Sullivan. Agricultural land will increase 40 percent, while commercial and industrial property will go up 50 percent.
Ohio lawmakers end a controversial three-week lame duck session by voting themselves a $5,000 annual pay raise. Members of the General Assembly will receive $22,500 a year under the new pay scale; the governor's salary will be increased from $50,000 to $60,000.
A team representing ICX Aviation Inc. will begin final negotiations in January with representatives of the Soviet Union to clear the way to build an Americanized version of the YAK-40 jet transport at Youngstown Municipal Airport.
December 2, 1963: A fact-gathering group from the International Association of Police Chiefs Inc. arrives in Youngstown to begin a major study of the Youngstown Police Department to improve efficiency. City Council approved $20,000 to pay for the study at the request of Mayor Harry Savasten.
Large silver stars mark 15 downtown Youngstown parking lots that are providing free parking every night through the Saturday before Christmas.
John A. Stansbury, 71, vice president of Union National Bank and a Navy veteran of two world wars, dies in North Side Hospital. He had been ill for several months.
December 2, 1953: Third Ward Councilman Anthony B. Flask launches an attempt to repeal a 19-year-old Youngstown ordinance that prohibits minors from loitering in places where liquor is sold.
Youngstown City Council approves 10 percent pay increases for most city employees. The action brings the annual pay of police officers and firemen to $4,283, which Police Chief Edward J. Allen says places Youngstown's safety forces among the highest paid in the nation.
Physicians begin arriving in Youngstown for the second cancer symposium being hosted by the Mahoning Medical Society and the Mahoning Unit of the American Cancer Society. Dr. Vernon L. Goodwin, president of the Mahoning Medical Society, will preside over the meetings at the Hotel Pick-Ohio.
December 2, 1928: With only 19 shopping days until Christmas, downtown Youngstown sees the season's first real wave of Christmas buying. A laughing, happy mob of shoppers jams Federal Street and the big stores.
For the third time in three years, and at just this season, Angelo Palpietra is held up at the rear of his market, the Community Market, 237 W. Federal St. Three young men accost Palpietra and escape with a money bag containing $400.
Old Main Memorial at Westminster College, built at a cost of nearly $500,000, will be dedicated in a ceremony that is expected to be attended by scores of college presidents from all over the United States.