Today is Sunday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2004. There are 313 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2004. There are 313 days left in the year. On this date in 1732, the first president of the United States, George Washington, is born at his parents' plantation in the Virginia Colony.
In 1819, Spain cedes Florida to the United States. In 1879, Frank Winfield Woolworth opens a 5-cent store in Utica, N.Y. In 1924, Calvin Coolidge delivers the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House. In 1934, the romantic comedy "It Happened One Night," starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall. In 1935, it becomes illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House. In 1973, the United States and Communist China agree to establish liaison offices. In 1980, the U.S. Olympic hockey team upsets the Soviets at Lake Placid, New York, 4-3. (The United States goes on to win the gold medal.) In 1984, a 12-year-old Houston boy known publicly only as "David," who'd spent most his life in a plastic bubble because he had no immunity to disease, dies 15 days after being removed from the bubble for a bone-marrow transplant.
February 22, 1979: The 9,200 workers at the General Motors Lordstown complex produce the 100 millionth new Chevrolet, a historic occasion. Robert Lund, GM vice president and general manager of the Chevrolet division, turns over the keys to a 1979 Monza to Jane Dunlap of Akron, who purchased the car to celebrate completion of her doctoral studies at Akron University.
Vandals are blamed for an early morning fire that did about $10,000 damage to Stambaugh Elementary School, the second school arson in as many days.
Thousands of barrels of toxic and volatile chemical waste in a dump at Deerfield are posing a real though not immediate threat to the waters of Berlin Reservoir, say officials at the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District.
February 22, 1964: The Beatles fly home to London from their triumph in America and are welcomed by 5,000 shrieking, weeping teen-agers.
The Youngstown Planning Commission approves a new residence apartment zoning classification designed to promote orderly development of apartment while preserving existing large-home neighborhoods.
Ninety-six members of the research and development staff headed by Dr. Karl L. Fetters report for duty at the new $5 million Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. research center in Boardman.
February 22, 1954: A contingent of 665 boys and girls from Sharon Junior High School, West Middlesex High and Austintown Fitch open the 1954 Industrial Exposition at Stambaugh Auditorium.
Officials of the James A. Henderson Co., Youngstown Chevrolet dealer, say they will stop selling cars to the Hollywood Rental Co. after an Akron Beacon Journal story ties the Florida rental company to Akron rackets figure Tony LaFatch.
The Chase-Lynch-Buckley Human Relations awards for promoting better race relations during 1953 are awarded to Michael M. Malmer, general manager of the Youngstown Municipal Railway Co.; Norman Johnson, director of athletics at St. Columba School and the Mahoning Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
February 22, 1929: The Erie Railroad plans to expend approximately $1.6 million in the Youngstown district for grade elimination purposes and other improvements.
Police, fire and health protection, use of the courts, playground and parks, improvements and general services dispensed by Youngstown city government in 1928 cost about $8.50 for each man, woman and child, according to figures release by the finance director's office. Operating the police department cost about $2 per capita, based on the city's population of 170,000 persons.
Amazing new engineering developments for comfort of mankind -- room coolers, water coolers and new household refrigerators -- are presented by Frigidaire Corp. to 8,000 sales representatives at a district convention in Cleveland. E.D. Sutton of Youngstown headed a contingent of 20 Youngstown salesmen from the local branch of William F. Gray Inc.
Judge David G. Jenkins enjoins the Youngstown water commissioner from shutting off the water to the home of Freeda Gardner, 133 N. Garland Ave. She has refused to pay a bill of $77.31 received for one quarter, arguing that it is excessive. Her bills averaged $50 per quarter for eight years.