Today is Saturday, April 17, the 108th day of 2004. There are 258 days left in the year.

Today is Saturday, April 17, the 108th day of 2004. There are 258 days left in the year.
On this date in 1964, Ford Motor Company unveils its new Mustang model at the New York World's Fair. In 1521, Martin Luther goes before the Diet of Worms to face charges stemming from his religious writings. In 1861, the Virginia State Convention votes to secede from the Union. In 1941, Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany in World War II. In 1961, about 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launch the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. In 1964, Jerrie Mock of Columbus, Ohio, becomes the first woman to complete a solo airplane flight around the world. In 1969, a jury in Los Angeles convicts Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. In 1970, the astronauts of Apollo 13 splash down safely in the Pacific, four days after a ruptured oxygen tank crippled their spacecraft. In 1994, Bosnian Serb tanks enter the Muslim enclave of Gorazde; the U.N. Security Council issues a nonbinding statement that condemns the Serbs' escalating military activities, but makes no threat of force to back its condemnation. In 1999, General Wesley Clark, NATO's commander, bluntly tells Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to change his policies in Kosovo or see his military machine destroyed.
April 17, 1979: Cortland officials are negotiating with the Packard Electric Division of General Motors for construction of a $7 million plant on Fowler Street that would employ an estimated 300 people.
Girard Mayor Nick J. D'Eramo refuses to give the Unification Church permission to solicit in the city, despite a federal court order protecting the church's right to solicit in Niles.
Austintown Township Police Chief James A. Hazlett and his 28-man police force are preparing for an open house and dedication ceremonies at the new $400,000 police station at 92 Ohltown Road.
April 17, 1964: "Every mile of Interstate 80 between Interstate 71 near Medina and the Pennsylvania Line will be built or under construction by the end of the year," says Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes. The governor says the road work has taken on new urgency with an announcement that General Motors will build a plant in Lordstown.
Walter E. Watson, retired vice chairman of the board of the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. who died recently, left an estate of $3.4 million, Probate Court records show.
Mahoning Common Pleas Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt orders county commissioners to restore a $29,204 appropriation to Juvenile Court Judge Harold S. Rickert for 1964. The order represents the amount that commissioners trimmed from Judge Rickert's requested appropriation of $192,000.
Berlin and Mosquito reservoirs prevented $5.4 million in flood damage in Youngstown during heavy March rains, says a new report by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
April 17, 1954: The level of the Meander Reservoir rises 151/2 inches in a 24-hour period after heavy rains drench the Mahoning Valley.
Billy Boano, 10, of Lowellville drowns in the Mahoning River when he tries to wade across the river to an island south of the Lowellville Bridge.
Another army of Easter shoppers is expected to storm downtown Youngstown buying Easter finery. Retail sales are reported off only five or 10 percent from 1953, which was a record year.
April 17, 1929: Conditions at the McKinley Savings and Loan Co., agitated by the mysterious disappearance of Carter C. McConnell, 45, assistant secretary, are further complicated when hundreds of depositors appear at the bank to withdraw their savings. Police are called to maintain order and to maintain two lines that run from the teller windows onto the sidewalk.
Lansdowne field, Youngstown's municipal airport, has "all the earmarks of a fine airport," but is not safe even for air mail planes in its present condition, D.W. Swan, representative of the Stout Airlines of Cleveland, tells the Rotary Club at the Hotel Ohio.
The Supreme Court of Ohio orders Youngstown to issue a building permit to the Ice & amp; Fuel Co. to erect a new ice plant and office building in Southern Blvd. at Lucius Ave. The building is expected to cost $200,000 to $250,000.
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