Today is Saturday, Dec. 4, the 339th day of 2004. There are 27 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Dec. 4, the 339th day of 2004. There are 27 days left in the year. On this date in 1783, Gen. George Washington bids farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York.
In 1816, James Monroe of Virginia is elected the fifth president of the United States. In 1875, William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of New York City's Tammany Hall political organization, escapes from jail and flees the country. In 1918, President Wilson sets sail for France to attend the Versailles Peace Conference. In 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt orders the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration, which had been created to provide jobs during the Depression. In 1942, U.S. bombers strike the Italian mainland for the first time in World War II. In 1945, the Senate approves U.S. participation in the United Nations. In 1965, the United States launches Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Cmdr. James A. Lovell aboard. In 1978, San Francisco gets its first female mayor as City Supervisor Dianne Feinstein is named to replace the assassinated George Moscone. In 1984, a five-day hijack drama begins as four armed men seize a Kuwaiti airliner en route to Pakistan and force it to land in Tehran, where the hijackers kill American passenger Charles Hegna. In 1993, authorities find the body of 12-year-old kidnap victim Polly Klaas in a wooded area of Cloverdale, Calif.
December 4, 1979: Emily K. Goldstein, an assistant professor of mathematics at Youngstown State University and the person who helped guide YSU into the computer era and sparked the interest of many young people in the field, is retiring.
Lordstown Village Council approves the purchase of 42 acres at a cost of $135,000 for development of a community park on Route 45 north of the village center, in an area formerly known as the Little Links golf course.
Angelo Sands, New Castle's mayor-elect, says that Mayor Francis J. Rogan's proposed 1980 budget lacks foresight and courage and promises it will undergo sweeping changes after the first of the year.
December 4, 1964: The Ohio Senate has drastically revamped congressional reapportionment plans, proposing a new 19th District that would put five northern Mahoning County townships, Youngstown and all of Trumbull County in the district.
Eight East Side teenage boys are rounded up by Youngstown police, accused of breaking 50 plate glass windows in the McGuffey Plaza. Damage is estimated at $6,000.
Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, veteran Youngstown congressman, snips a ribbon of television video-tape to formally dedicate the Michael J. Kirwan Educational Television Center in Pago Pago, American Samoa. Kirwan was honored for his years of effort to better the education of Indians, Eskimos, Polynesians and Micronesians who live in areas administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
December 4, 1954: Mahoning County will have to tighten its belt for relief of the poor because Squire, Sanders & amp; Dempsey, Cleveland bond consultants, say they can't approve Mahoning County's proposed bond issue for poor relief until some legal questions are answered.
A Woodworth resident reports finding more than 350 pounds of dynamite in a shed near an abandoned coal mine at the rear of his home. Mahoning County sheriff's deputies say the dynamite is owned by the Fairfield Coal Co., which has said it will dispose of the explosives.
The Ohio Turnpike Commission reports 5,563 vehicles paid tolls of $2,548 on the first full day of operation of the Eastgate Section. About 53 percent of the vehicles were passenger cars.
December 4, 1929: Frank Purnell, who went to work for Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. as a hall boy, will assume the presidency of the company at the age of 43. Beginning in January, James A. Campbell, the president, will assume the post of chairman of the board.
National Air Transport Inc. assigns a plane to the Youngstown district as part of the search for an air mail plane that disappeared on a run from New York to Cleveland. Farmers and ground searchers are urged to comb wooded lots in the search for pilot Thomas P. Nelson.
President Hoover presents to Congress a budget of $3.8 billion for 1930 and calls for a tax cut, since his figures show the nation will have a budget surplus of $122 million in July.