Today is Wednesday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2003. There are 63 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2003. There are 63 days left in the year. On this date in 1929, "Black Tuesday" descends upon the New York Stock Exchange. Prices collapse amid panic selling and thousands of investors are wiped out as America's "Great Depression" begins.
In 1682, the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, lands at what is now Chester, Pa. In 1901, President McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, is electrocuted. In 1911, American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer dies in Charleston, S.C. In 1923, the Republic of Turkey is proclaimed. In 1947, former first lady Frances Cleveland Preston dies in Baltimore at age 83. In 1956, during the Suez Canal crisis, Israel launches an invasion of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. In 1956, "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premieres as NBC's nightly television newscast, replacing "The Camel News Caravan." In 1964, thieves make off with the Star of India and other gems from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. (The Star and most of the other gems are recovered; three men are convicted of stealing them.) In 1966, the National Organization for Women is founded. In 1967, the counter-culture musical "Hair" opens off-Broadway.
October 29, 1978: Youngstown detectives will seek to have two 16-year-old Brier Hill boys tried as adults for the slaying of a West Side widow during a robbery in a North Side bowling alley parking lot that netted the boys $20.
Joseph Naffah, just named Lebanon's ambassador to Japan, stops in Youngstown to visit his sister Odette Nassah. Americans, he says, have a concern about human rights and social justice not shared by any other nation, and the United States will have to play a major role if there is to be genuine peace in the Middle East.
The Richley administration would opt for a reduced work week rather than layoffs if the city's financial shortfall persists into 1979, says the city's director of labor relations.
October 29, 1963: During a meeting of the American Heart Association in Los Angeles, the Youngstown Heart Association receives national recognition for its outstanding stroke rehabilitation program. Youngstown is one of the few cities with a program aimed at rehabilitating stroke victims and 150 victims and their families have already received assistance.
The Treasury Department tells Congress that the budget outlook has improved by $3 billion, but still recommends that the national debt limit be increased from $309 billion to $315 billion. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon anticipates a $9 billion deficit in the fiscal year just begun.
Delbert E. Hamilton, supervisor of the coil manufacturing unit at General Electric Corp.'s Lamp Division in Youngstown, is named manager of the Philippine Electric Manufacturing Co., a subsidiary of International GE, in Manila.
October 29, 1953: Youngstown has one of the lowest property tax rates in the United States, with an effective rate of $12.10 per $1,000 of market value. By comparison, the rate in Canton is $19.70, in Pittsburgh, $41.40 and Elizabeth, N.J., $61.90.
Youngstown's Central YMCA, in the midst of an enlargement and modernization program, needs $300,000 to complete the project, W.E. Bliss, Y president, tells industrial and civic leaders.
The Ohio Supreme Court upholds the right of the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority to take over an 18-acre site owned by St. Stephen's Club that is needed for construction of the $3.5 million Kimmel Brook Homes project.
October 29, 1928: A bomb damages the front of the home of R.C. Hoyles, publisher of the Mansfield News, but Hoyles, his wife, their two children and a servant escape injury because they were in the rear of the home.
Voter registration in the United States has risen to 43 million and experts are suggesting that turn out on Election Day could be 38 million due to high interest in the race between Democrat Al Smith and Republican Herbert Hoover. In 1924, the total vote for president was 29 million.
With legal technicalities out of the way, Lake Newport, Mill Creek's newest and largest lake, is to be allowed to fill as rapidly as the water will flow into it. The lake could not be filled until an unused county road was formally abandoned.