Today is Saturday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2004. There are 321 days left in the year. This is

Today is Saturday, Feb. 14, the 45th day of 2004. There are 321 days left in the year. This is Valentine's Day. On this date in 1929, the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" takes place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone's gang are gunned down.
In 1778, the American ship Ranger carries the recently adopted Star and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it arrives in France. In 1859, Oregon is admitted to the Union as the 33rd state. In 1903, the Department of Commerce and Labor is established. (It is divided into separate departments of Commerce and Labor in 1913.) In 1912, Arizona becomes the 48th state of the Union. In 1920, the League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago; its first president was Maude Wood Park. In 1945, Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador join the United Nations. In 1979, Adolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, is kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim extremists and killed in a shootout
February 14, 1979: Rosemary Durkin, Youngstown clerk of courts, announces that she will seek the Democratic Party nomination for mayor. Standing at her side was incumbent J. Phillip Richley who has announced that he will not seek a second two-year-term.
Scores of armed Iranians storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, and take Ambassador William Sullivan and 101 other Americans prisoner, but Deputy Prime Minister Ibrahim Yazdi intercedes and announces that the Americans are under his protective custody.
Youngstown area Miami Indians say they seek state incorporation as the North Eastern U.S. Miami Inter-Tribal Council Inc., a nonprofit tax exempt group that would represent all Miami Indians east of the Mississippi River.
February 14, 1964: The Ohio Supreme Court upholds two felony convictions against Youngstown Racketeer Joey Naples, letting stand sentences of one to 7 years in jail for receiving stolen property and one to 10 for promoting numbers games.
With the steel business continuing to improve in anticipation of spring, Youngstown district steel plants will boost operations three more points to 65 percent of capacity.
Bud J. Fares, editor of a local weekly night club magazine, is appointed by Mahoning County commissioners and the Youngstown Board of Control as the city-county civil defense director at $7,920 a year.
February 14, 1954: Heart disease, the No. 1 killer, is the target of 2,500 men and women who will visit every home in Mahoning County for contributions to the Heart Fund.
The Freedom Tank in which eight people fled from Czechoslovakia in 1963 -- this year's symbol of freedom for the Crusade for Freedom -- will make an appearance in Youngstown in connection with the local campaign to raise $15,000.
The Mahoning Valley Boy Scout Council confers Silver Beaver awards, highest honor given to volunteer Scouters, on Gus Arp of Lowellville and Peter P. Zubal, assistant commissioner of the Pioneer District.
Frank "Red" Comiskey, former Rayen School and Ohio State end, is the new offensive line coach of the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League.
February 14, 1929: Miss Katherine Owsley of Broadway, Youngstown, describes Miss Anne Morrow, fiancee of Col. Charles Lindbergh, as "a very attractive girl with soft wavy brown hair and pretty eyes." Miss Owsley, a classmate of Miss Morrow at Smith College, was popular, but more interested in her studies and writing than in other college activities.
Seven members of the North Side Chicago gang of George "Bugs" Moran were lined up against the wall in the gang's headquarters and summarily executed by rival gangsters posing as policemen.
The Village of Beloit is ordered to pay W.G. Greenawalt $600 in damages for polluting a stream across Greenawalt's farm. A village storm sewer polluted the stream, making its water unfit for Greenawalt's cattle.