Today is Friday, Aug. 13, the 226th day of 2004. There are 140 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Friday, Aug. 13, the 226th day of 2004. There are 140 days left in the year. On this date in 1961, Berlin is divided as East Germany seals off the border between the city's eastern and western sectors in order to halt the flight of refugees.
In 1624, French King Louis XIII names Cardinal Richelieu his first minister. In 1704, the Battle of Blenheim is fought during the War of the Spanish Succession, resulting in a victory for English and Austrian forces over French and Bavarian soldiers. In 1846, the American flag is raised for the first time in Los Angeles. In 1910, Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, dies in London. In 1932, Adolf Hitler rejects the post of vice-chancellor of Germany, saying he was prepared to hold out "for all or nothing."
August 13, 1979: Commercial Shearing, faced with growing demand for its pumps in new market places and cramped for space in its Youngstown plant, will build a new plant and distribution center in North Carolina.
Many of the steelworkers laid off when the Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. closed its Campbell Works in 1977 are hesitant to seek job retraining, according to a study by Youngstown State and Ohio State universities.
August 13, 1964: A cleverly made fishhook bar equipped with a suction cup was used to snag at least two money bags from the night depository at the First National Bank of Salem, says Police Chief Martin Lutsch. About $2,000 is missing.
The first six months of 1964 showed Chevrolet as the No. 1 car in the U.S. domestic market, while Volkswagen was No. 1 among imports. Chevrolet had 1.1 million of the record 4.1 million cars sold during the first half of the year.
August 13, 1954: Nathaniel R. Jones, former editor of the Buckeye Review, is appointed to the Mahoning County Welfare Advisory Board to succeed the Rev. W. Payne Stanley, who resigned.
State legislation to strictly regulate the sale and possession of explosions and providing penitentiary sentences for violators is one of the proposals advanced in a meeting of Mahoning and Trumbull county mayors aimed at curbing the wave of racketeering bombings in the Mahoning Valley.
Local 5 of the United Autoworkers in South Bend, Ind., votes 8-1 to accept wage reductions rather than face the possible shutdown of Studebaker's big automotive plant.
August 13, 1929: To keep up with the unprecedented growth in the number of telephones in the Youngstown district, the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. announces an improvement plan calling for the erection of a new building and the spending of several million dollars over the next five years.
Steel stocks are again up sharply on the New York Stock Exchange, with U.S. Steel common rising nearly $10 a share to a record price of $239.