Today is Saturday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2003. There are four days left in the year. On this

Today is Saturday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2003. There are four days left in the year. On this date in 1932, Radio City Music Hall opens in New York.
In 1822, scientist Louis Pasteur is born in Dole, France. In 1831, naturalist Charles Darwin sets out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle. (Darwin's discoveries during the trip help to form the basis of his theories on evolution.) In 1900, militant prohibitionist Carry A. Nation carries out her first public smashing of a bar, at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kan. In 1927, the musical play "Show Boat," with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opens at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York. In 1945, 28 nations sign an agreement creating the World Bank. In 1968, Apollo Eight and its three astronauts make a safe, nighttime splashdown in the Pacific. In 1978, Algerian President Houari Boumediene, one of the Third World's most prominent and outspoken leaders, dies after 40 days in a coma. In 1979, Soviet forces seize control of Afghanistan. President Hafizullah Amin, who was overthrown and executed, is replaced by Babrak Karmal.
December 27, 1978: The Boardman Board of Education slashes the school system's budget, cutting 75 jobs, including 29 teachers, and eliminating busing for all high school students.
Layoff notices are being delivered to 1,325 Cleveland police and firemen, half the city's safety forces.
As in the past, a New Year's Eve celebration will be held on Youngstown's Federal Plaza, but this year a large part of the festivities will take place indoors. A dance will be held in the city parking garage on Federal Plaza East with music by the Three Kings.
December 27, 1963: Victor Copeland, 22, a former Chaney High School athlete, is killed when the fan blade from his car struck his face as he raised the hood in Charleston, S.C., where he was stationed with the Army. It is unknown what caused the blade to come loose.
The Federal Aviation Administration rules that Youngstown can abandon the Youngstown Municipal Airport's $1 million north-south runway and build private hangars at the airport's North end.
Youngstown's first Christmas baby of 1963 is Cindy Lou Strait, born at 12:16 a.m. Christmas Day in St. Elizabeth Hospital.
Fank C. Watson, president of the Youngstown Welding & amp; Engineering Co., is elected president of the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce.
December 27, 1953: Youngstown adult bus riders who attend a Friday movie at one of four downtown theaters will be able to purchase a weekly bus pass for $1.50, a savings of 25 percent. The Warner, Paramount, State and Palace theaters are cooperating with the Youngstown Municipal Transit Co. in the promotion.
The McGuffey elms, planted 114 years ago by William Holmes McGuffey on the campus of Ohio University at Athens, will play a prominent role in the celebration of the university's sesquicentennial celebration in 1954. McGuffey, who grew up in Youngstown and was author of the McGuffey Readers, was president of Ohio University from 1839 to 1843.
Advertisement: Just arrived for your New Year's party, 3,000 new and used records, 45 and 78 rpm, including popular and hillbilly titles, two for 25 cents at the W.T. Grant Co. stores downtown and at the Boardman Plaza.
December 27, 1928: Vincent Aderente, internationally famous artist in Youngstown to retouch his "Council Rock" painting in Judge J.H.C. Lyon's courtroom, is amazed to find that the Indians in his painting had turned blond. "What would old Thundercloud say if he saw his rave-black hair a faded blond?" Aderente wondered. The fading, said Commissioner Griff Jones, was caused by scrubbing.
Leaders of Youngstown's banking world are of one mind: 1929 will be a good year. A.E. Adams summarizes his colleagues view that, "Business generally and the country over is on the soundest basis it ever has been."
Collection of delinquent Mahoning County taxes through the appointment of Atty. David Shermer as a special prosecutor will cost the county "considerable money," says Karl B. Dodge, state examiner who is auditing county books.