Today is Palm Sunday, April 4, the 95th day of 2004. There are 271 days left in the year. On this

Today is Palm Sunday, April 4, the 95th day of 2004. There are 271 days left in the year. On this date in 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, is assassinated in Memphis.
In 1818, Congress decides the flag of the United States would consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with a new star to be added for every new state of the Union. In 1841, President William Henry Harrison succumbs to pneumonia one month after his inaugural, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die in office. In 1850, the city of Los Angeles is incorporated. In 1887, Susanna Medora Salter becomes the first woman elected mayor of an American community -- Argonia, Kan. In 1902, British financier Cecil Rhodes leaves $10 million in his will to provide scholarships for Americans at Oxford University. In 1945, during World War II, U.S. forces liberate the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany. In 1949, 12 nations, including the United States, sign the North Atlantic Treaty. In 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th round-tripper in Cincinnati. In 1975, more than 130 people, most of them children, are killed when a U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashes shortly after take-off from Saigon.
April 4, 1979: Fearing that residents weren't being given the truth about what was happening at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, former Youngstown resident Ann Forsythe packs up her nine children and abandons the family's Harrisburg home. They're staying with friends in Youngstown. Her husband stayed in Harrisburg, where he is head of anesthesiology for Holy Spirit Hospital.
Former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan's dominant political figure from 1971 to 1977, is hanged after President Mohammed Zia ul-Hag rejects clemency appeals from President Carter and other foreign leaders.
Jay Osborne, a junior at Jackson-Milton High School, is elected Ohio District Governor for Key Club International.
April 4, 1964: City Council President Joseph E. O'Neill, who is also an attorney representing racketeer Joey Naples, returns from Washington, D.C., with Naples, where an attorney was hired to represent Naples in appealing his two felon convictions to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A 25-year-old Newton Falls man who has been charged with robbing a Mantua bank is the object of a statewide search.
Nevada gaming agents raid the Silver Slipper, a major Las Vegas strip casino, and shut it down, allegedly for using crooked dice.
Construction has begun on Calvary Religious Center on Kirk and Raccoon roads, a unique three-story domed structure that will seat 900 in the sanctuary, with additional seating in the balcony.
April 4, 1954: Youngstown's survey of unfit housing finds 68 adults and 94 children living in dingy, condemned shacks from which they will be evicted. Many will have nowhere to go when the eviction notices are served.
The Century stores 14th annual Show of Shows at Stambaugh Auditorium will feature Anna Maria Alberghetti, star of screen, television and Carnegie Hall, and comedian Frank Fontaine. Tickets are available at all Century stores with every $25 in cash register receipts.
Advanced shop class students at Vernon High School in Trumbull County are getting practical experience by building a four-room house during the school year. The house, which was financed by a Kinsman bank, will be sold and the students will share the profits.
Ed Welsh, 74, of Youngstown, may be the only fan in the United States who has sat in the stands at every World Series since 1905. Welsh, a retiree from Renner Realty and the Renner Brewery, has seen at least three games in every series, including the 1932 game when Babe Ruth pointed toward center field before hitting a home run.
April 4, 1929: The Ohio General Assembly increases the speed limits for automobiles in congested areas of cities from 15 to 20 mph; in other sections of municipalities from 25 to 35 mph and sets the limit in rural areas at 45 mph.
Mrs. Herbert Hoover becomes the first wife of a president to drive an automobile around Washington without a chauffeur or secret service operatives. She took several women companions for a ride in her new car, a dark sedan with no distinctive markings, and says she intends to make extensive use of the machine while in Washington.
Youngstown City Council considers repealing its liquor ordinance, which was recently ruled invalid by an appeals court. City police have been making arrests under the Crabbe Act since the court issued its opinion.