Today is Saturday, Aug. 14, the 227th day of 2004. There are 139 days left in the year. On this date in 2003, a huge blackout hits the northeastern United States and part of Canada; 50 million people

Today is Saturday, Aug. 14, the 227th day of 2004. There are 139 days left in the year. On this date in 2003, a huge blackout hits the northeastern United States and part of Canada; 50 million people lose power.
In 1917, China declares war on Germany and Austria during World War I. In 1935, the Social Security Act becomes law. In 1944, the federal government allows the manufacture of certain domestic appliances, such as electric ranges and vacuum cleaners, to resume on a limited basis. In 1945, President Truman announces that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II. In 1947, Pakistan becomes independent of British rule. In 1951, newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst dies in Beverly Hills, Calif. In 1962, robbers hold up a U.S. mail truck in Plymouth, Mass., making off with more than $1.5 million. In 1969, British troops arrive in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
August 14, 1979: A former Ohio High way Patrol trooper is charged with two counts of theft in office for allegedly accepting $80 in bribes from two motorists stopped for traffic violations in Ashland County.
Michael A. Tabak, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Tabak of Lowellville, graduates from the UCLA School of Medicine, which he attended on a Regent's Scholarship, after graduating magna cum Laude from Loyola University in Los Angeles.
The battle between soda pop and beer bottlers and environmentalists opens in earnest after a proposal to establish a 10-cent deposit on all containers is certified for the November ballot in Ohio.
August 14, 1964: Youngstown district steel mills are adding six open hearths to production, boosting the operating rate to 81 percent, the highest since spring 1962.
James C. Foutts, 56, director of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County and the man credited with the library's growth, dies in North Side Hospital where he was being treated for heart and kidney ailments.
The city's plan to build a parking garage on Commerce Street is being put on hold after the G.M. McKelvey Co. announces that it will build a new garage adjacent to its department store.
August 14, 1954: Frank Shuber, the best known graduate of the Glenwood Children's Home, will return to Youngstown for a reunion with others who found refuge at the home while it was operating, between 1900 and 1934. Shuber, who lost both legs while hopping a train when he was 6 years old, worked his way through college and law school and has risen in the ranks of the General Accounting Office in Washington, D.C. The home at 1501 Glenwood Ave. has been bought by the Youngstown Diocese and is being remodeled for use as a South Side Catholic high school.
Clara Harmon Smith, 87, widow of William A. Smith, president of J.W. Smith & amp; Co., leading retail shoe company in Youngstown, dies in North Side Hospital. Once one of the city's leading hostesses, she maintained her independence, living alone at her home at 322 N. Phelps St., where she continued to maintain her garden until very recently.
August 14, 1929: East Liverpool police are looking for Harry Judy, a pottery kiln worker and well-known amateur wrestler, after 1,200 bottles of homebrew are found in a raid on a house near Railroad and Walnut streets.
A campaign against vice and liquor conditions in the homes of children and in places where young folks visit is launched by Mahoning County juvenile authorities and the sheriff's department.
Olga Svemick, 7, is fatally wounded by a .22 caliber rifle that accidentally discharged in the hands of a 10-year-old playmate. The girls found the gun in a car, where it had been left by a hunter, on Cascade Street in New Castle.
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