Today is Tuesday, April 13, the 104th day of 2004. There are 262 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, April 13, the 104th day of 2004. There are 262 days left in the year. On this date in 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, is crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen bursts. (The astronauts manage to return safely.)
In 1598, King Henry IV of France endorses the Edict of Nantes, which grants rights to the Protestant Huguenots. (The edict is abrogated in 1685 by King Louis XIV, who declares France entirely Catholic again.) In 1742, Handel's "Messiah" is first performed publicly, in Dublin, Ireland. In 1743, the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, is born. In 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded in New York. In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial. In 1958, Van Cliburn becomes the first American to win the Tchaikovsky International Piano Contest in Moscow. In 1964, Sidney Poitier becomes the first black performer in a leading role to win an Academy Award, for "Lilies of the Field." In 1981, Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke receives a Pulitzer Prize for her feature about an 8-year-old heroin addict named "Jimmy"; however, Cooke relinquishes the prize two days later, admitting she'd fabricated the story. In 1992, the Great Chicago Flood takes place as the city's century-old tunnel system and adjacent basements fill with water from the Chicago River.
April 13, 1979: The city of Youngstown and Mahoning County stand to gain as much as $2.2 million in federal money -- largely at the expense of Trumbull and Columbiana counties -- by withdrawing from the Northeastern Ohio Employment and Training Consortium.
Mahoning County and Youngstown judges greet an Ohio Supreme Court order admitting cameras into their courtrooms with mixed emotions, most expressing misgivings of one kind or another. Ohio becomes the 15th state to permit some form of pictorial coverage of trials.
Campbell police believe Robert E. Furey, 40, was shot to death in a carefully laid plan that included deflating one of the tires on his car. Furey was found dead in the front seat of his car, shot twice in the head.
The Kroger Co. is reportedly negotiating to purchase a number of stores that the A & amp;P is closing in the greater Youngstown area.
April 13, 1964: The U.S. Supreme Court denies an application for bail by Youngstown racketeer Joey Naples and Naples will have to surrender at the Mahoning County Jail within days. He will be transferred to the Ohio State Penitentiary to begin serving one to seven years on a receiving stolen property conviction and one to 10 years for promoting a numbers game.
Harold E. Green of Hubbard, a former Youngstown College football star, is killed instantly when his car leaves Broadway Road in Hickory Township and strikes a pole.
Ford Motor Co. uses the glamorous background of the New York's World's Fair to unveil the Mustang, a car that Lee A. Iacocca, Ford Division general manager, says could be a compact economy car, a sports car or a luxury car based on options chosen.
April 13, 1954: The name of Joe Dallet, former Youngstown Communist who was killed in Spain in 1937 fighting for the Spanish Loyalists, surfaces in reports on Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer's suspension from the Atomic Energy Commission for security reasons. Oppenheimer's wife was Dallet's widow, and one of the charges leveled against Oppenheimer is that he was married to a former Communist.
A Youngstown girl whose heart was mended at St. Vincent Charity Hospital in Cleveland in 1953 passes her post-operative checkup. Miss Ilah Jean Megla, 21, survived an operation that required an upholsterer's curved needle to sew the stitches and is expected to be able to lead a normal life.
The New York Central Railroad plans to make a strong bid to take many of the heavily loaded tracks carrying steel from Youngstown to Detroit off the highways by putting the loaded trailers on its piggyback railroad cars.
April 13, 1929: The Union Savings Bank, Federal and Watt streets, is closed by E.H. Blair, state superintendent of banks of Ohio for liquidation. This is the first time a bank in Youngstown has been closed.
Two city detectives are assigned by Chief of Detective Thomas O'Horo to attempt to find the man who attempted to abduct an 8-year-old South Side girl but failed when her brother came to her assistance.
Atty. F. Rollin Hahn, president of the Mahoning County Bar Association, wires a second protest to Gov. Myers Y. Cooper arguing against his intent to veto a bill that would provide an additional common pleas judge for Mahoning County.
Sir James Barrie gives the perpetual rights to his famous play, "Peter Pan," to the London Hospital for Sick Children. It is estimated that the gift would yield 2,000 pounds cash yearly.
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