Today is Thursday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2004. There are 330 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2004. There are 330 days left in the year. On this date in 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt proposes increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court; critics accuse Roosevelt of attempting to "pack" the high court.
In 1631, the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, and his wife arrive in Boston from England. In 1783, Sweden recognizes the independence of the United States. In 1881, Phoenix is incorporated. In 1917, Congress passes, over President Wilson's veto, an immigration act severely curtailing the influx of Asians. In 1917, Mexico's constitution is adopted. In 1958, Gamel Abdel Nasser is formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic. In 1962, French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence. In 1973, services are held at Arlington National Cemetery for Army Lt. Col. William B. Nolde, the last American soldier killed before the Vietnam cease-fire.
February 5, 1979: Niles-based RMI Co., one of the country's leading titanium producers, will spend $3.5 million to boost its Ashtabula capacity to produce titanium sponge by 25 percent.
Anthony A. Colao Jr. is elected president and chief executive officer by directors of Peoples Bank of Youngstown., succeeding Alfred G. Vallen, who will become a vice president of Society Corp., the bank's parent company.
Three persons are arrested and a large quantity of liquor confiscated when two cruiser patrolmen walk into an Albert Street bottle club containing more than 150 patrons.
Joseph A. Califano Jr., secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, is pondering whether to end a four-year moratorium on government funding of so-called test tube baby research. Two such babies have been born in Great Britain.
February 5, 1964: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown, queried on his views on the Civil Rights bill, replies, "my vote will be cast against discrimination against race in America."
Popular Mahoning County Deputy Dog Warden John "Red" McGarry, his wife, 11 children and a grandchild are left homeless by a fire that destroyed their 150-year-old frame house on Springfield Road. The fire broke out while Mr. and Mrs. McGarry were in New Middletown, picking up a daughter who worked at the Nemenz Market, but the older children who were home led the younger ones to safety.
More than 1,000 women of all faiths at the Interfaith Meeting and Tea at First Presbyterian Church are challenged to "go out from this meeting and make our community, our nation and our world a place of equal opportunity, equal rights and brotherhood every day." The speaker was the Rev. Samuel C. Sharp, executive director of the Youngstown Council of Churches.
February 5, 1954: The Stambaugh-Thompson Co.'s wholesale division will build a large warehouse on a 16-acre tract in Henricks Road in anticipation of expanding its eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania business. Republic Steel Corp's Youngstown plant will start two more open hearth furnaces as a result of an improved volume of orders, giving the plant its first increase in steel output in more than two months.
Mayor Frank X. Kryzan declares that if private enterprise can solve Youngstown's downtown parking problem, he'll be happy to see it. Otherwise, he says, "the city will have to do it."
The Ohio Department of Liquor Control outlaws bingo-type pinball machines from taverns throughout the state.
Officials of nine Mahoning Valley cities and villages meet in Warren and form a permanent organization that will pursue purchase of land to create a Mahoning-Grand River Floodway, which would be a 75-billion gallon "water bank."
February 5, 1929: Lamar Armstrong, son of Youngstown Law Director and Mrs. Carl Armstrong, becomes engaged to Miss Josephine Widener of New York while on the high seas aboard the S.S. Washington en route from Europe to New York. Armstrong, former captain of the South High football team, was returning from Africa, where he was in the employ of the Firestone Rubber Co.
Reacting to Youngstown Mayor Joseph Heffernan's veto of an ordinance creating 13 positions on the Youngstown Municipal Court staff, city council introduces a new ordinance authorizing the hiring of three bailiffs and three clerks.
The Ohio Legislature begins impeachment proceedings against Bert Buckley, state treasurer, who was convicted of attempted bribery and conspiracy to violate federal prohibition law.