Today is Wednesday, April 30, the 120th day of 2003. There are 245 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, April 30, the 120th day of 2003. There are 245 days left in the year. On this date in 1803, the United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for the equivalent of about $15 million.
In 1789, George Washington takes office in New York as the first president of the United States. In 1812, Louisiana becomes the 18th state of the Union. In 1900, Hawaii is organized as a U.S. territory. In 1939, the New York World's Fair officially opens. In 1945, as Russian troops approach his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun. In 1970, President Nixon announces the U.S. is sending troops into Cambodia, an action that sparks widespread protest. In 1973, President Nixon announces the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean. In 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon falls to Communist forces.
April 30, 1978: With one day left to apply, the Youngstown Board of Education has received only nine applications and one letter of intent for the job of superintendent being vacated by Robert L. Pegues Jr. As many as 100 applications had been expected for the job, which will pay about $34,000.
Edward B. Feil, 53, of Poland is killed when his single-engine plane crashes in a wooded area near New Castle.
Military rebels who toppled the government of Afghanistan report that 200 persons are killed in the coup, including President Mohammed Daoud, his vice president, two cabinet ministers and the air force commander.
April 30, 1963: A Cleveland truck driver has to swim for his life after his truck runs off Rt. 224 and plunges into about 8 feet of water in Berlin Reservoir.
The U.S. Everest expedition's first assault team, five miles up the world's highest mountain, is on schedule to make an attempt for the 29,028-foot high peak in a day.
Allegheny County commissioners refuse to approve a financing plan for a $45 million sports stadium project that would be built on Pittsburgh's North Side. The commissioners are expected to present their own plan.
April 30, 1953: The Ohio Senate judiciary committee kills a proposal to put legalized bingo on the ballot in the fall.
An envelope containing $1,000 in cash that was meant as pay for Bob Eberly, the famous radio and TV singer, who played a week at Sam Parillo's Blue Crystal night club in Girard, is lost. It's eventually found in a trash heap behind the tavern, half burned. The damaged bills were taken to the bank and may be replaced, following an investigation by the Treasury Department.
Fifty rooms and a restaurant will be added to the Wick Ave. Drive-in Hotel across the street from Ursuline High School. The addition is valued at $75,000.
April 30, 1928: Thirty-nine persons are arrested and four alleged speakeasies raided in a war on illegal liquor sales in rural sections of the county launched by Sheriff P.J. Corll. Twenty-four of the arrests came at the "White Kitchen" in Austintown.
Col. Charles Lindbergh flies his silver monoplane, "Spirit of St. Louis," from St. Louis to Washington, D.C., on the final flight for the ocean-spanning craft. It will be placed in the Smithsonian Institution for exhibit with other history-making airplanes.
A mysterious letter signed by "John Spalding," a fictitious name, alleges that at least one Youngstown city councilman is "right in with the bootleggers and making money by running an evil place."