Today is Wednesday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2004. There are 345 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2004. There are 345 days left in the year. On this date in 1954, the first atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched at Groton, Conn.
In 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI is condemned for treason and executed on the guillotine. In 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and four other Southerners resign from the U.S. Senate. In 1915, the first Kiwanis Club is founded, in Detroit. In 1924, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin dies at age 54. In 1942, Count Basie and His Orchestra record "One O'Clock Jump" in New York for Okeh Records. In 1950, George Orwell, author of "1984," dies in London.
In 1976, the supersonic Concorde jet is put into service by Britain and France. In 1977, President Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders. In 1979, the Pittsburgh Steelers become the first team to win three Super Bowls as they defeat the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 in Super Bowl 13.
In 1997, Speaker Newt Gingrich is reprimanded and fined as the House votes for first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct. In 1994, a jury in Manassas, Va., finds Lorena Bobbitt innocent by reason of temporary insanity of maliciously wounding her husband, John, whom she had accused of sexually assaulting her.
January 21, 1979: Refusing repeated shouts to halt, a man is shot to death by a Warren policeman as he flees a robbery at Gray Drugs at the Austin Village Plaza.
New approaches to old problems apparently helped the Youngstown Police Department hold increase in the city's crime rate to less than 1 percent overall in 1978 and to 1.8 percent in the serious-crime classification.
The Mahoning County Medical Society elects a plastic and reconstructive surgeon as president for the second year in a row. Dr. Yau Too Chiu will succeed Dr. G.H. Dietz.
January 21, 1964: State Sen. Charles J. Carney of Youngstown still does not know whether he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for congressman-at-large as a result of the failure of the Democratic pre-primary convention to act on endorsements.
Ralph Snook Sr., 58, of McDonald, an Erie Lackawanna Railroad crewman, dies at Jameson Memorial Hospital in New Castle. He fell and was wedged between the engine and a railroad car at a siding in Wilmington Township.
A total of nearly $45 million for flood control and water storage in northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania is proposed in President Lyndon Johnson's budget. Within that amount is $15 million for the West Branch and Shenango reservoir projects.
January 21, 1954: Mayor Frank X. Kryzan's special parking committee recommends that Youngstown acquire some sites at once for downtown parking facilities financed by city revenue bonds. The bonds would be secured by receipts from city parking meters and charges to lot patrons.
Youngstown vice squad officers arrest five persons and seize 12 capsules of heroin and other narcotic paraphernalia in a roundup aimed at curbing drug traffic between Youngstown and Cleveland.
Bandleader Xavier Cugat and his wife vocalist Abbe Lane tell police they were kidnapped and robbed of nearly $20,000 in jewelry and cash by a masked gunman who lay in wait for them in Cugat's car.
January 21, 1929: Construction of a new administration building to house county offices is being considered by county commissioners to relieve congestion at the Mahoning County Courthouse.
With an auto death rate of 29.8 per 100,000 population, Youngstown is second highest among six Ohio cities and ninth in a list of 78 U.S. cities, according to a survey by the Department of Commerce.
The danger of "talking" pictures and "the filth of some recent movies" results in the organization of the Ohio State League for Clean Motion Pictures. The league will fight for "sane censorship" of movies in Ohio.