Today is Tuesday, Dec. 14, the 349th day of 2004. There are 17 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 14, the 349th day of 2004. There are 17 days left in the year. On this date in 1799, the first president of the United States, George Washington, dies at his Mount Vernon home at age 67.
In 1861, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, dies in London. In 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first man to reach the South Pole, beating out an expedition led by Robert F. Scott. In 1939, the Soviet Union is dropped from the League of Nations. In 1946, the United Nations General Assembly votes to establish U.N. headquarters in New York. In 1981, Israel annexes the Golan Heights, which it had seized from Syria in 1967. In 1986, the experimental aircraft Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, takes off from Edwards Air Force Base in California on the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world.
December 14, 1979: Only one light, a star of hope, will burn on the national Christmas tree until the 50 American hostages held in Iran are released, President Carter declares.
Layoffs at General Motors Packard Electric Division in Warren will total 3,300, the largest number since low car sales sparked a round of furloughs by the company.
In the biggest one-day giveaway in Ohio Lottery history, two Ohioans win $1 million jackpots.
The Mahoning County Board of County Visitors, a six-member board of private citizens responsible for inspecting all jails and nursing homes in the county, says the Youngstown City Jail needs a thorough cleaning.
December 14, 1964: Steel magazine predicts that automakers will end 1964 by delivering more cars than ever before, breaking the 1955 record of 7.4 million deliveries. Meanwhile, General Motors announces it will spend $1.1 billion in 1965 on expansion, an increase of 20 percent.
The Rev. Samuel C. Sharp, secretary of the Youngstown Council of Churches, says he was overwhelmed during a visit to Rome in the progress that has occurred in the Roman Catholic Church with respect to the church's openness to Eastern Orthodox and Protestant Christians. Rev. Sharp was a Protestant observer at Vatican sessions.
December 14, 1954: Adoption of a graduated income tax in Youngstown appears likely to die, despite a campaign promise by Mayor Frank X. Kryzan to institute one. The city will apparently continue to collect about $2 million a year from its half-percent across the board income tax.
Dr. Sam Sheppard ends four days of testimony in his trial in Cleveland with a taut denial that he murdered his wife, Marilyn; an accusation that the prosecution is being unfair in accusing him of inflicting injuries on himself as part of a cover up and an admission that he had earlier lied about an affair, saying he did so to protect the woman's reputation.
The Youngstown Post Office will keep its windows open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. the Saturday and Sunday before Christmas.
December 14, 1929: A complaint by a Wood Street School civics teacher that it is difficult to teach children about good government when a bootlegger is operating across the street results in a padlock order by Judge George H. Gessner on a building at 211 Wood St.
A beer bottle submitted as evidence in the bootlegging trial of Frances Boron in New Castle, Pa., explodes, just as her attorney was arguing that the beer was not potent enough to be unlawful. The foam-sprayed jury was out for only a few minutes before finding her guilty.