Today is Tuesday, April 27, the 118th day of 2004. There are 248 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, April 27, the 118th day of 2004. There are 248 days left in the year. On this date in 1805, a force led by U.S. Marines captures the city of Derna, on the shores of Tripoli.
In 1509, Pope Julius II excommunicates the Italian state of Venice. In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines. In 1822, the 18th president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. In 1865, the steamer Sultana explodes on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tenn., killing more than 1,400 Union prisoners of war. In 1937, the nation's first Social Security checks are distributed. In 1967, Expo '67 is officially opened in Montreal by Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. In 1973, during the Watergate scandal, Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray resigns.
April 27, 1979: Despite a continuing high demand for steel, the steelhaulers' strike is having a serious impact on the Youngstown district economy. Sharon Steel Corp. announces it will shut down all of its steel finishing operations, laying off 2,000 workers.
Gary Cohen is named chairman of the new Advisory Committee on Deafness formed by the board of directors of the Youngstown Hearing and Speech Center to intensify its commitment to the deaf in the Mahoning Valley.
A Youngstown jeweler is robbed of an estimated $50,000 in rings and watches on Cleveland's East Side. Richard Stein, vice president of McClain's Jewelers, is hit over the head outside the Conrail Collinwood Inn.
April 27, 1964: John P. Powers withdraws as an active candidate for the Democratic nomination for 19th District congressman in the May primary, leaving Trumbull County Commissioner Robert Hagan as the only challenger to incumbent Michael J. Kirwan.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejects the appeal of former Trumbull County Democratic Chairman Frank Cickelli, who was convicted of bribery in 1962 in the Warren sewage contract scandal.
The Supreme Court of the United States agrees to rule on the validity of Florida laws prohibiting marriages between Negroes and whites. The law also makes it a crime for a Negro man and a white woman or white man and a Negro woman to habitually occupy the same room at night.
April 27, 1954: Youngstown Bishop Emmet M. Walsh turns the first shovel of dirt at groundbreaking ceremonies for a new elementary school at St. Patrick Parish in Youngstown.
Smoke and flames rout 150 people from Mahoning County Democratic headquarters and the Central Grill on Youngstown's Central Square. The fire is believed to have been started by a short circuit in a neon sign on the Central Grill.
Youngstown is holding up on the $100,000 repair of control gates at Milton Dam while asking communities and industries along the Mahoning River to share in the cost, Mayor Frank X. Kryzan tells a meeting of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce board of directors.
April 27, 1929: James A Farrell, president of the United States Steel Corp., receives the first Gary memorial medal for distinguished service in the Iron and Steel industry.
Two deeds involving manufacturing property worth several million dollars and located in Sebring are filed in the Mahoning County recorder's office, transferring the E.H. Sebring China Co. and the Sebring Manufacturing Corp. to the American Chinaware Corp. The transfers are part of a $25 million pottery merger.
The Rev. Gregory Scholz, pastor of St. Dominic's Church, is elected to the pastorate of St. Dominic's Priory in Washington, D.C.
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