Today is Thursday, April 8, the 99th day of 2004. There are 267 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, April 8, the 99th day of 2004. There are 267 days left in the year. On this date in 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth's record. The round-tripper was off pitcher Al Downing.
In 1513, explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain. In 1935, the Works Progress Administration is approved by Congress. In 1946, the League of Nations assembles in Geneva for the last time. In 1950, ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky dies in London. In 1952, President Truman seizes the steel industry to avert a nationwide strike. In 1970, the Senate rejects President Nixon's nomination of G. Harold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1973, artist Pablo Picasso dies at his home near Mougins, France, at age 91.
April 8, 1979: Though it will be at least three years before ground is broken, federal legislation offers renewed hope for the proposed Downtown Transportation Center. The proposed center would provide a garage for 100 WRTA buses and a depot for Greyhound and Continental Trailways lines.
The Boardman High School Marching Band, 260 strong, marches down Constitution Avenue during the Cherry Blossom Parade in Washington, D.C. The Spartans were the only Ohio band invited to the parade.
Wick Mackey, 80, whose life has been associated with music both of his own making and that of artists appearing at Stambaugh Auditorium, is retiring as auditorium manager, a position he took in 1951.
April 8, 1964: The Rev. Bruce W. Klunder of Baker, Ore., is killed during a civil rights demonstration at the site of a school on the East Side of Cleveland when he is run over by a bulldozer. The death sparked a wave of violence and rioting.
William B. McKelvey, president and general manager of the G.M. McKelvey Co., is named chairman of the Youngstown Area United Appeal.
Twenty-four Youngstown area reservists with the 910th Troop Carrier Squadron at Youngstown Municipal Airport are taking part in the escort the funeral procession for Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Washington, D.C.
April 8, 1954: L.A. Beeghly and his associates are cleared completely by Judge Clifford L. Belt of St. Clairsville of charges made by inventor A.P. Steckel that he was defrauded in the sale of Cold Metal Products Co. in 1946 for $1,250,000. The judge intimates that Beeghly and his group may even have overpaid.
Speaking in Hotel Pick-Ohio in Youngstown, Sen. Thomas A. Burke calls on President Eisenhower to calI a special joint session of Congress to lay the full facts of the critical Indo-China situation before the American people. If the French and British pull out of Indo-China, is American prepared to go it alone? he asks.
Youngstown Police Chief Paul H. Cress warns of a crackdown on all local motorists who fail to give the proper signals in making turns on city streets.
April 8, 1929: An attempt to fly an aged wartime airplane from a small farm plot near Columbiana results in a crash of the plane against the roof of the Russell Crumbacher home a mile north of Columbiana. The pilot, Joseph P. Flask, Youngstown bakery salesman, was slightly cut and bruised in the crash.
Five people are overcome by heat in Youngstown as the mercury reaches 81 degrees on the Sheet & amp; Tube Co. thermometer. The warm weather brings the first bathers of the year to Lake Newport.
The Supreme Court rules that naturalized Canadians are prohibited from crossing the border to work or search for employment in the United States without valid visas issued by the consulate.