Today is Thursday, May 29, the 149th day of 2003. There are 216 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, May 29, the 149th day of 2003. There are 216 days left in the year. On this date in 1953, Mount Everest is conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norkay of Nepal become the first climbers to reach the summit.
In 1765, Patrick Henry denounces the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses, saying: "If this be treason, make the most of it!" In 1790, Rhode Island becomes the 13th original colony to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1917, the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, is born in Brookline, Mass. In 1932, World War I veterans begin arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they aren't scheduled to receive for another 13 years. In 1942, Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" in Los Angeles for Decca Records. In 1942, actor John Barrymore dies in Hollywood at age 60. In 1943, Norman Rockwell's portrait of "Rosie the Riveter" appears on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. In 1985, 35 people are killed in rioting that erupts between British and Italian spectators at the European Cup soccer final in Brussels, Belgium.
May 29, 1978: Mahoning County commissioners have been ordered by two courts to provide additional space in the courthouse, and both courts have their eye on the same space. The 7th District Court of Appeals has ordered the commissioners to provide 400 additional square feet of space for its use, which could only mean vacating a probation officer's office. The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered that the same office be given to the Mahoning County Law Library.
George Pavlov, a Cardinal Mooney High School senior, has built a V8-powered 1923 Ford roadster under the direction of his shop teacher, Tony Roncone. The parts for the car cost about $1,000, but building it required countless hours of work.
Cleveland photographer Frank Aleksandrowicz has launched a campaign to have a postage stamp issued honoring Polish-American war hero Casimir Pulaski, who died in the battle of Savannah on Oct. 9, 1779. The Lawrence County town of Pulaski, Pa., is named for the Revolutionary War general.
May 29, 1963: Gov. James A. Rhodes tells 943 graduates at Youngstown University's 41st annual commencement that their education has only now begun. The class is the largest in the university's history.
Official estimates by insurance investigators place the loss of the Feb. 2 fire at the Youngstown Club at $500,000. Initial estimates had placed the loss at twice that amount.
The Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission will open swimming pools and playgrounds on June 24, a week later than anticipated, because of financial restrictions.
May 29, 1953: The state highway department will begin acquiring land for the widening of Market St. from Southern Blvd. south to the city limits.
Youngstown police are searching for a sex pervert who reportedly abducted a 6-year-old South Side girl, drove her to E. Midlothian Blvd., where he molested her. The suspect is described as a pimply faced young man who lured the girl into his car with a promise of candy and a chance to make a dollar.
Mrs. Violet Brewer, 34, is shot to death in the bedroom of her Leonard St. home in East Liverpool. A 21-year-old potter has confessed shooting her with a rifle aimed through the bedroom window because she had opposed his marrying her 20-year-old daughter.
May 29, 1928: A 23-year-old Mineral Ridge woman who has five children and is facing federal charges over ordering toys for the children and furnishings for her home from a Pittsburgh mail order house when she knew she couldn't pay for them, is told by Federal Judge Paul Jones to stop having children. Clearly, he said, the family income of $25 a month is insufficient to support any more children.
Youngstown City Council authorizes $25,000 to the park and playground department to pay a number of men working three days a week at the Webb Farm, where the city is building an 18-hole golf course.
Roy L. Dewan of Salem is killed instantly in Cleveland when the auto in which he was riding stalled on the tracks of the New York Central Railway and was struck by a train.