Today is Friday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2004. There are 343 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2004. There are 343 days left in the year. On this date in 1973, President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end the Vietnam War.
In 1789, Georgetown University is established in present-day Washington, D.C. In 1845, Congress decides all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. In 1920, the Dutch government refuses demands from the victorious Allies to hand over the ex-Kaiser of Germany. In 1932, New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. In 1943, critic Alexander Woollcott suffers a fatal heart attack during a live broadcast of the CBS radio program "People's Platform." In 1950, the Israeli Knesset approves a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Israel. In 1964, the 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, is ratified. In 1968, North Korea seizes the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging its crew with being on a spying mission. (The crew is released 11 months later.) In 1985, debate in Britain's House of Lords is carried on live television for the first time.
January 23, 1979: Even while a nearby crowd of demonstrators chanted, "Keep Brier Hill Open," R. Gordon Allen, president of Jones & amp; Laughlin Steel Corp.'s Central Division, held out little hope that J & amp;L would rescind its decision to phase out Brier Hill's aging open hearths.
The Palestine Liberation Organization blames Israel for the bombing assassination of Abu Hassan, the guerrilla leader reputed to have masterminded the terrorist attack on the Israeli team at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Hassan and seven others were killed when a booby-trapped car exploded in Beirut.
U.S. Rep. Lyle Williams, R-19th, expresses disappointment with President Carter's State of the Union address, saying it provided too few details of the presidents proposals. Williams said he could not support Carter's call to reduce Social Security benefits as part of an austerity plan.
January 23, 1964: Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co. earnings are expected to exceed $35 million in 1963, the highest level since 1957. The earnings are expected to be above $10 a share, compared with $7.81 a share in 1962.
Second reading is given to a Youngstown ordinance that would abolish car allowances for city employees and establish a mileage rate of 8 cents per mile. City employees who receive the allowances are opposed to the bill, but its backers say it could save the city about $30,000 of the $41,000 now paid in allowances.
Burglars throw a rock through the window of the Plaza Record Shop at 3359 Mahoning Ave. and escape with four television sets and $99 in cash.
January 23, 1954: Youngstown's parking committee report left a number of the commission's members bewildered by recommending to Mayor Frank X. Kryzan that the city go into the parking business Many of the citizen members of the committee say they never had a chance to discuss what the city's parking problems are and what solutions might be available.
Dayton real estate developers are investigating a Lincoln Knolls parcel as the possible site of a 200-unit low-cost housing development.
Hundreds of Youngstowners, young and old, brave bitter cold winds to take advantage of the seventh day of ice skating so far this winter. Temperatures went down to 7 at the airport and 10 downtown.
January 23, 1929: The Mahoning County jury commission is instituting a new system that will cut costs and assure more efficient and intelligent juries. About 10,000 men and women will be summoned to the courthouse, where they will be given examinations as to their qualifications to serve and will required to tell the most advantageous time for them to serve.
The types of buildings that may be erected in Youngstown and the uses to which property in various parts of the city may be put will be regulated under a comprehensive zoning plan unveiled by the city planning commission.
A model of the memorial mausoleum to be erected in Oak Hill Cemetery is on display in one of the windows of the Strouss-Hirshberg store. Already space valued at $100,000 has been reserved in the mausoleum by Youngstown citizens.