Today is Wednesday, Aug. 18, the 231st day of 2004. There are 135 days left in the year. On his date

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 18, the 231st day of 2004. There are 135 days left in the year. On his date in 1983, Hurricane Alicia slams into the Texas coast, leaving 22 dead and causing more than $1 billion worth of damage.
In 1587, Virginia Dare becomes the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C. In 1846, U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearney capture Santa Fe, N.M. In 1894, Congress establishes the Bureau of Immigration. In 1914, President Wilson issues his "Proclamation of Neutrality," aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I. In 1920, Tennessee becomes the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of all American women to vote. In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting the United States and Canada. In 1954, during the Eisenhower administration, Assistant Secretary of Labor James E. Wilkins becomes the first black to attend a meeting of a president's Cabinet as he sits in for Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell. In 1958, the novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov is published. In 1963, James Meredith becomes the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi. In 1982, for the first time, volume on the New York Stock exchange tops the 100 million level as 132.69 million shares are traded.
August 18, 1979: Melvin Bay Guyon, captured on Youngstown's South Side after spending a week as one of the nation's most wanted men, is being held in Cuyahoga County Jail under $1.3 million bond. He is charged with first-degree murder in the death of FBI special agent Johnnie L. Oliver.
Ron Jaworski, former Youngstown State star quarterback, throws for three touchdowns leading the Philadelphia Eagles to a 31-17 victory over the Baltimore Colts.
"Grove City College has taken its stand for freedom," Dr. Charles McKenzie, the college president, tells members of the Youngstown Downtown Kiwanis Club by resisting federal interference in the college's operations and choosing to be operated with private funds.
August 18, 1964: A new 48-inch storm sewer will be installed at county expense to alleviate chronic flooding n parts of Boardman Township, including the old Poland Country Club area, says County Engineer Sam Gould Jr.
Sen. Barry Goldwater's advisers are mapping a massive television campaign, and keeping it flexible to counter any major Democratic moves in the race for the White House. Republicans are prepared to spend as much as $4.5 million on TV ads beginning in September.
Lake Milton records its first drowning of the year with the death of Richard Nagle, 7, of Cleveland, who drowned in an unprotected area of the lake during a family outing.
August 18, 1954: Michael J. "Mickey" Carney, the elusive "Dynamite Kid," long sought by Ohio and Pennsylvania authorities for robberies, is captured without a fight in the bedroom of his Wilson Avenue home, absent his guns and explosives.
Mrs. Floyd E. Miller, who died recently, left the bulk of an estate valued at $1.6 million in two trusts, one to be divided among nieces and nephews and the other for the YWCA and Youngstown Society for the Blind.
Paul J. Tusek of Power Point, Columbiana County, arrives in Times Square, New York City, driving a 1906 Stanley Steamer, one of 10 antique cars from all over America that will be shipped to Britain to joust with a team of British antique cars in a rally.
August 18, 1929: The new North Side unit of the Youngstown Hospital, Gypsy Lane, will be completed and formally opened sometime next month at a total cost estimated at $1.8 million.
Two youthful bandits obtain between $300 and $400 in a daring holdup of John Todd, manger of the Deluxe Fruit Shop, 200 E. Federal St. Todd tells police he was driving home with the day's receipts from the shop when a car passed him in E. Indianola Road, blocking his way, and two armed men got out and demanded his money.
Youngstown police cruisers will be equipped with radios - not the kind that furnish musical programs, but ones set at fixed wave lengths in touch with a police transmitter, if the budget requested by Police chief Paul E. Lyden is approved by city officials.