Today is Saturday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2004. There are 342 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2004. There are 342 days left in the year. On this date in 1848, James W. Marshall discovers a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California, a discovery that leads to the gold rush of '49.
In 1908, the first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell. In 1924, the Russian city of St. Petersburg is renamed Leningrad in honor of the late revolutionary leader. (It has since been renamed St. Petersburg.) In 1942, a special court of inquiry into America's lack of preparedness for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor places much of the blame on Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, the Navy and Army commanders. In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill conclude a wartime conference in Casablanca, Morocco. In 1965, Churchill dies in London at age 90. In 1972, the Supreme Court strikes down laws that deny welfare benefits to people who had resided in a state for less than a year. In 1978, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite plunges through Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates, scattering radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada.
January 24, 1979: Consumer prices rose 9 percent in 1978, the largest increase in four years, but the Labor Department reports that the inflation picture improved in the last two months of the year.
The Rev. Joseph Jennings Jr., an associate minister at Jerusalem Baptist Church, is elected worshipful master of Silver Moon Lodge 20, A.F. & amp;A.M.
A disgruntled patron is suspected of brutally beating a barmaid at the Sons of Italy and robbing her of $560 as she left the club. She is in guarded condition at St. Elizabeth Hospital.
January 24, 1964: A "complete breakdown" of local law enforcement against commercial gambling and collusion of racketeers and public officials are cited in a final report issued by the Mahoning County grand jury investigating crime. The report alleges officials seek favors from racketeers.
A 91-year-old Campbell man is dead and his 65-year-old son clings to life after being overcome by gas leaking from a kitchen stove. The younger man survived because he was sleeping near a partially opened window.
"The 1964 election may be the last real chance to preserve the fiscal responsibility essential to the safety of the Free World," William E. Miller, Republican national chairman, tells more than 600 persons at the 49th annual Mahoning Valley McKinley Club dinner.
January 24, 1954: A Youngstown flying instructor and his Sharon, Pa., student land their plane on grounds of the new Hubbard High School after the plane developed engine trouble. Samuel T. Thomas, the instructor, and Fred Shaffer were on a routine training flight when the engine went out.
Fred Tod Jr. suffers a broken leg when he fell while skating on a lake at the Seceder's Corners estate of Richard P. Owsley. Tod is a partner in the Bruce & amp; Co. insurance firm and a director of Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.
John Krueger, conductor of the Youngstown Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, is one of 29 conductors of community, civic and college orchestras from Pasadena, Calif., to Worcester, Mass., at a 12-day workshop at Severance Hall in Cleveland.
January 24, 1929: Youngstown is preparing to fight a plan suggested by Gov. Myers Y. Cooper that would deprive the city of its $160,000 share of the state gasoline tax. Loss of the revenue, which Myers would have stay with the state, would mean a virtual end to the city's street repair program.
Common Pleas Court has adjourned in Mahoning County for the week to allow attorneys to attend the three-day mid-winter meeting of the Ohio Bar Association in Cleveland.
Ralph O. Brewster, former governor of Maine, will be the speaker at the YMCA Forum at Stambaugh Auditorium, He recently received national recognition when he presented President-elect Herbert Hoover's stand on labor.