Today is Monday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2003. There are 93 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Monday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2003. There are 93 days left in the year. On this date in 1978, Pope John Paul I is found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1789, the U.S. War Department establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men. In 1943, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off Malta. In 1953, the family comedy "Make Room for Daddy," starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC. In 1963, the second session of Second Vatican Council opens in Rome. In 1982, seven people in the Chicago area die after unwittingly taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. In 1988, the space shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape Canaveral, marking America's return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster.
September 29, 1978: As a strike by rail clerks enters its fourth day, 6,500 workers at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors in Warren are laid off.
The RMI Co., its former president and an assistant to the president are indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of price fixing.
September 29, 1963: The Kinzua, Pa., Railroad Bridge, an engineering feat when it was built 75 years ago, will become a historical monument and the state will develop a park in its shadow. The 301-foot high span no longer carries railroad traffic.
Stonework begins on a new circular $800,000 church for St. Joseph Parish in Sharon. The church at State Street and Case Avenue was designed by Ralph Stickle, Cleveland architect.
Hampered by politics in the operation of the Youngstown Municipal Airport, the city of Youngstown has neglected to develop potential sources of income that are paying off nicely at comparable airports, such as parking, restaurants, car rentals and vending machines.
September 29, 1953: The first 106,000-kilowatt generator in Ohio Edison Co.'s new $30 million electric power generating plant at Niles will be put into operation within two months. The second unit likely will begin operation in February.
WFMJ-TV will offer district sports enthusiasts a "box seat" at the 1953 World Series as Youngstown's first full-time television station joins 104 other TV outlets in the United States and Canada in carrying telecasts of the Yankee-Dodger contests.
September 29, 1928: Under ideal weather conditions and before a crowd of 1,500 enthusiastic sports fans, the annual horse show of the Mill Creek Riding Club opens at the club's grounds on Bears Den Road.
Youngstown Mayor Joseph L. Heffernan, who is recuperating from a near-nervous breakdown at Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, is not likely to be back on the job as soon as had been expected. Heffernan left Sept. 18 on what had been described as a motor trip and had been expected to return by the end of the month.
Myers Y. Cooper, Republican candidate for governor, is the principal attraction at the first big Republican meeting of the campaign in Youngstown, held in the YMCA gymnasium.