Today is Tuesday, Dec. 28, the 363rd day of 2004. There are three days left in the year. On this

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 28, the 363rd day of 2004. There are three days left in the year. On this date in 1945, Congress officially recognizes the Pledge of Allegiance.
In 1694, Queen Mary II of England dies after five years of joint rule with her husband, King William III. In 1832, John C. Calhoun becomes the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Jackson. In 1856, the 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, is born in Staunton, Va. In 1897, the play "Cyrano de Bergerac," by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris. In 1917, the New York Evening Mail publishes a facetious -- as well as fictitious -- essay by H.L. Mencken on the history of bathtubs in America. In 1937, composer Maurice Ravel dies in Paris. In 1944, the musical "On the Town" opens on Broadway. In 1973, Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system. In 1982, Nevell Johnson Jr., a black man, is mortally wounded by a police officer in a Miami video arcade, setting off three days of race-related disturbances that leaves another man dead.
December 28, 1979: Gov. James A. Rhodes vetoes a bill that would have provided an additional 13 weeks of unemployment compensation or free job training benefits for persons thrown out of work by plant closings.
Jones & amp; Laughlin Steel Corp. is running about a day ahead of schedule in terminating its iron and steel production in the Mahoning Valley.
Salem's continuing struggle against construction of a federal low-income housing project causes the Department of Housing and Urban Development to reject the city's preapplication for a $920,000 Community Development Block Grant needed for sewer, street and home renovations in the Hillsdale section.
December 28, 1964: A 23-year-old Evelyn Avenue man turns himself in to Austintown police, who are conducting an investigation into a hit-skip accident in which Robert Wagner, 14, was killed.
Workmen are erecting a coffer dam on the Mahoning River near West Avenue to hold back the river while a trench is dug for two 30-inch lines that will carry sewage under the river to the new treatment plant. Existing lines dump raw sewage into the river.
A Shehy Street man tells Youngstown police he was beaten and kicked unconscious and robbed of $160 by a man who jumped into his sports car as he waited for a traffic light at E. Federal St. and South Ave.
December 28, 1954: Youngstown will close 1954 with a general fund cash balance of $726,922, says Finance Director Jack W. Nybell.
Thousands of shoppers jam downtown Youngstown in a post-Christmas buying and exchange rush that gives merchants one of their busiest days of the holiday season.
December 28, 1929: Twelve judges touring every part of the city work far into the night to decide winners in the third annual Vindicator Electrical League Outdoor Christmas Lighting Contest. The sweepstakes prize of a loving cup for the most elaborate display in Youngstown goes to C.W. Deibel at 220 Fifth Ave.
The first week of the new year will see an improvement of about 15 percent in mill operations in Youngstown over the December averages as flat rolling departments gear up to meet orders placed by auto makers.
A new concept in evolution, one that attempts to shake apes out of the human family tree without altering other ideas of Darwin, is presented to the American Association of the Advancement of Science by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn of New York.