Today is Sunday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2004. There are 334 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2004. There are 334 days left in the year. On this date in 2003, the space shuttle Columbia breaks up during re-entry, killing all seven crew members: Cmdr. Rick Husband; pilot William McCool; payload Cmdr. Michael Anderson; Indian-born engineer Kalpana Chawla; David Brown; Laurel Clark; and Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli in space.
In 1861, Texas votes to secede from the Union. In 1893, inventor Thomas A. Edison completes work on the world's first motion picture studio, his "Black Maria," in West Orange, N.J. In 1920, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police comes into existence. In 1943, one of America's most highly decorated military units of World War II, the 442d Regimental Combat Team, made up almost entirely of Japanese Americans, is authorized. In 1946, Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie is chosen to be the first secretary general of the United Nations. In 1960, four black college students begin a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service. In 1968, during the Vietnam War, Saigon's police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in a scene captured in a famous news photograph. In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini receives a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ends nearly 15 years of exile. In 1979, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, whose prison sentence for bank robbery had been commuted by President Carter, leaves a federal prison near San Francisco. In 1991, 35 people are killed when a US Air jetliner crashes atop a commuter plane on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport.
In 1861, Texas votes to secede from the Union. In 1893, inventor Thomas A. Edison completes work on the world's first motion picture studio, his "Black Maria," in West Orange, N.J. In 1920, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police comes into existence. In 1943, one of America's most highly decorated military units of World War II, the 442d Regimental Combat Team, made up almost entirely of Japanese Americans, is authorized. In 1946, Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie is chosen to be the first secretary general of the United Nations. In 1960, four black college students begin a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service. In 1968, during the Vietnam War, Saigon's police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in a scene captured in a famous news photograph. In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini receives a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ends nearly 15 years of exile. In 1979, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, whose prison sentence for bank robbery had been commuted by President Carter, leaves a federal prison near San Francisco. In 1991, 35 people are killed when a US Air jetliner crashes atop a commuter plane on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport.
Youngstown City Council calls on Mayor Phillip J. Richley to get rid of Nick Dundee, the city street superintendent, after the department runs out of salt and slag for ice control. The equipment is in such poor shape that the department is pressed to keep six trucks on the road at one time.
February 1, 1964: A 41-year-old Austintown man is arrested after being accused of pulling a loaded .38-caliber revolver on a student following the Boardman-Struthers basketball game at Boardman Junior High School.
Sidney Moyer, retiring president of the Community Corporation, says residents don't appreciate the value of the 30-odd agencies funded by United Appeal. On average, it costs about $13 a year to support a child in a Scouting program, but $4,106 to handle one juvenile delinquent for a year, he points out.
The Packaging Corp. of America will triple the size of its Austintown Township plant with a $480,000 addition.
February 1, 1954: "The youth of America needs camping," is the topic when Miss Martha Allen, national director of the Camp Fire Girls, speaking a a kick-off dinner for the Youngstown Camp Fire drive to raise $110,000 for improvements to Camp Kiwatani.
Only 12 token lottery fines for nine persons in Campbell during 1953 is one of the factors in the drive announced by Campbell Solicitor Paul VanSuch to clean up vice in the city.
February 1, 1929: Before leaving for a Florida vacation, Youngstown Mayor Joseph Heffernan vetoes a city council ordinance that would have added 13 employees to the municipal court of Judge Peter Mulholland.
A 23-year-old Youngstown woman tells the Trumbull County prosecutor that she "was nervous and the gun started shooting," in explaining how she wounded two men at the Midway Inn, a spaghetti house on Youngstown Hubbard Road. Police believe the young woman was infatuated with the owner of the roadhouse, Tony Lauria, who is in St. Elizabeth Hospital with a gunshot wound of the chest.
Eugene Cecil, a pilot during the World War, dies when his mail plane goes astray on the Cleveland-Youngstown-Pittsburgh circuit and crashes into a West Virginia mountain top.