Today is Tuesday, April 29, the 119th day of 2003. There are 246 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, April 29, the 119th day of 2003. There are 246 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberate the Dachau concentration camp; that same day, Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun and designates Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor.
In 1429, Joan of Arc enters the besieged city of Orleans to lead a victory over the English. In 1861, Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from the Union. In 1862, New Orleans falls to Union forces during the Civil War. In 1916, the Easter Rising in Dublin collapses as Irish nationalists surrender to British authorities. In 1946, 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted as war criminals. In 1974, President Nixon announces he is releasing edited transcripts of some secretly made White House tape recordings related to Watergate. In 1983, Harold Washington is sworn in as the first black mayor of Chicago. In 1992, deadly rioting eruptes in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley, Calif., acquits four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. In 1996, former CIA Director William Colby is presumed drowned by authorities in Maryland after an apparent boating accident; his body is later recovered. In 1993, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II announces that for the first time, Buckingham Palace would be opened to tourists to help raise money for repairs at fire-damaged Windsor Castle. In 1997, a worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons goes into effect. In 1998, the United States, Canada, and Mexico agree to eliminate tariffs on items accounting for $1 billion in trade at a meeting in Paris on the North American Free Trade Agreement.
April 29, 1978: A spectacular general alarm fire, whipped by strong winds and dry lumber, rips through the Mahoning Lumber Co., 99 E. Indianola Ave. The loss is estimated at $400,000.
Warren's Red Run sewer project, nearly 10 years in the planning, moves one step closer to construction when city officials award an $8.2 million contract to the Lone Star Geordano Co.
U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti denies a motion by the NAACP to circumvent state law and enable the Cleveland school board to impose higher taxes on Cleveland residents.
April 29, 1963: The vacant Stanley Works in Niles is given by the New Britain, Conn., firm to the Disabled Veterans of America, which plan to use some of the $400,000 property as a warehouse and rent parts of it to industrial tenants. The plant had made hinges and other products for Stanley for 40 years before being closed in 1962.
The mayors of both Niles and Youngstown say they will fight a proposed water rate increase of about $2 per million gallons announced by the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.
Three shots are fired from a fleeing car at a cruiser being driven by Boardman Police Capt. Charles Price, with one bullet shattering the windshield of the cruiser. The pursuit began after Price saw the car exist a service station on Market Street with its lights out. Speeds reached 100 mph.
Playing at the State Theater, "Mutiny on the Bounty," starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris.
April 29, 1953: City traction commissioner E.L. Tennyson says bus fares will have to be increased unless a lane is left open for the Market-Hillman bus line while the Market Street Bridge is being overhauled.
The steel industry and the 1.2 million member United Steelworkers of America square off for a wage-price battle without government controls for the first time in a decade. The union is seeking a 10-cent and hour wage increase.
5th Ward Councilman Harry Jacobs, charging that Second Ware Councilman John Palermo used "hatchet man" tactics to block creation of a "fisherman's paradise" in Lincoln Park, is still searching for a home for 1,000 rainbow trout due in from Michigan .
April 29, 1928: Councilman Gus Doeright says he has letters from Youngstown residents saying they have had to wait in bootleg dives for vice officers to step aside before they could be served. Doeright says he will introduce legislation to abolish the vice squad.
Steps to organize a citizens committee into a permanent body that will attempt to combat ambulance chasing lawyers and work out methods of reducing automobile insurance rates in Youngstown.
Elizabeth Rethburer, prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera Co., sings at Stambaugh auditorium, closing the Monday Musical Club season for 1927-28.