Today is Monday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2003. There are 359 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2003. There are 359 days left in the year. On this date in 1412, according to tradition, Joan of Arc is born in Domremy.
In 1540, England's King Henry the VIII marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. (The marriage lasts about six months.) In 1759, George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis are married. In 1838, Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates his telegraph, in Morristown, N.J. In 1912, New Mexico becomes the 47th state. In 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, dies in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60. In 1942, the Pan American Airways "Pacific Clipper" arrives in New York after making the first round-the-world trip by a commercial airplane. In 1945, George Herbert Walker Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye, N.Y. In 1967, U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation "Deckhouse Five (V)," an offensive in the Mekong River delta. In 1982, truck driver William G. Bonin is convicted in Los Angeles of being the "freeway killer" who had murdered 14 young men and boys.
January 6, 1978: St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center begins to make pre-admission testing, a proven cost saver, available to its patients. Blue Cross subscribers can have certain tests and X-rays performed in the outpatient department before rather than after they are admitted.
The Ohio Edison Co. accepts a state water permit that requires the company to install an $11 million cooling tower at its Niles generating plant on Belmont Ave. The tower would cool water that is released into the Mahoning River.
Youngstown, Mahoning County and the Youngstown Area Chamber of Commerce will be cooperating in a year-long campaign to improve the Mahoning Valley's image among the nation's businessmen.
January 6, 1963: Top executives of the "big four" of the Youngstown district basic steel industry hold mildly optimistic views of 1963 and plan some further spending in the Youngstown area to try to keep basic steel healthy in the district.
U.S. and Vietnamese officers consider possible changes in tactics to eliminate mistakes that showed up in the bloodiest single battle of South Vietnam's four-year war against the Communist Viet Cong. Communist fire killed 68 government troops and three Americans.
The Raymond P. Shafer family of Meadville will be Pennsylvania's "second family" for the next four years. Shafer, a 45-year-old Meadville attorney, is lieutenant governor to another 45-year-old, William W. Scranton.
January 6, 1953: Municipal Judges Forrest J. Cavalier and John W. Powers clear the way for the trial of two well-known rackets figures by upholding the constitutionality of a city ordinance against known gamblers. Attorneys for Joseph "Sandy" Naples and James Corsell, 19, who were charged as known gamblers, challenged the law.
About 90 employees of the blooming mill condition department of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. walk out in what the union claims is a protest against "unsafe practices."
Ohio State University is one of 26 major universities that will be investigated by a congressional subcommittee that is seeking Communist subversives in higher education.
January 6, 1928: Judges Frank L. Baldwin and William Carter are told that Mrs. Lucy Carn, a widow who lives near Ohltown, would "die of a broken heart" if she is forced to give up the cabin in which she was born and now lives to make way for the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District reservoir.
At a convention of Willys-Overland dealers in Toledo, new prices are announced that place the perfected Whippet in a position to compete directly with Ford automobiles on price.
Rabbi I.E. Philo is elected president of the new Torch Club of Youngstown during a meeting at the Youngstown Club.