Today is Wednesday, Dec. 29, the 364th day of 2004. There are two days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, Dec. 29, the 364th day of 2004. There are two days left in the year. On this date in 1845, Texas is admitted as the 28th state.
In 1813, the British burn Buffalo, N.Y., during the War of 1812. In 1851, the first American Young Men's Christian Association is organized, in Boston. In 1890, the Wounded Knee massacre takes place in South Dakota as some 300 Sioux Indians are killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them. In 1934, Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. In 1940, during World War II, Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London. In 1957, singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are married in Las Vegas. In 1975, a bomb explodes in the main terminal of New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people. In 1989, playwright Vaclav Havel is elected president of Czechoslovakia by the country's Federal Assembly, becoming the first non-Communist to attain the post in more than four decades.
December 29, 1979: The 1,400 steelworkers idled by the closing of the Jones & amp; Laughlin Steel Corp.'s Mahoning Valley operations will have five different pay and benefit options to choose from, says James Butler, local J & amp;L public relations man.
The Ohio Department of Highway Safety will put state patrol airplanes in the sky on New Year's Eve to watch for possible drunken drivers on the highways, especially around Columbus.
Six steelworkers, including a former Youngstown man, die when a fan stops turning and carbon monoxide fumes leak into the area around a blast furnace at the Jones & amp; Laughlin East Chicago plant.
December 29, 1964: The chief of the National Guard announces that all 50 states, with Alabama and Mississippi falling into line last, have dropped bars against mixing Negro and white soldiers in their Guard units.
Trumbull County has been granted an additional 12.2 acres at the Brookfield radar base by the U.S. General Services Administration and plans to use it as a nursing home.
December 29, 1954: Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan says that police will offer "courtesy" rides to tipsy drivers on New Year's Eve if they call the police station before getting behind the wheel. Those found driving will be arrested, he warns.
The Gallagher interests in Gallagher & amp; O'Horo Inc., general contractors, have been sold to A.P. O'Horo, 468 Alameda Ave., for $180,000. O'Horo and William J. Gallagher will operate separate contracting firms under their own names.
Nicholas P. Bernard, chairman of the board of review of the Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation, is named Youngstown finance director by Mayor Kryzan.
December 29, 1929: Pennsylvania State Police Cpl. Brady Paul was shot down by the woman member of the bandit gang being sought by police in five states, several witnesses testify during a coroner's inquest in New Castle.
J.A. Campbell, chairman of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co., expects an average business year in 1930, he says in a statement issued by the company.
The Penn-Ohio power system will build the first six stories of what will eventually be a 14-story skyscraper as its headquarters. The building will be constructed at Champion and Boardman streets and will have front faces on both thorofares.