Today is Sunday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2004. There are 341 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, Jan. 25, the 25th day of 2004. There are 341 days left in the year. On this date in 1959, American Airlines opens the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707.
In 1787, Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers led by Capt. Daniel Shays fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass. In 1890, reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) of the New York World completes a round-the-world journey in 72 days, six hours and 11 minutes. In 1890, the United Mine Workers of America is founded. In 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service. In 1946, the United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor. In 1947, American gangster Al Capone dies in Miami Beach, Fla., at age 48. In 1961, President Kennedy holds the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television. In 1971, Charles Manson and three women followers are convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate. In 1981, the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrive in the United States. In 1990, actress Ava Gardner dies in London at age 67.
January 25, 1979: Youngstown City Council votes to sponsor a $17 million Urban Development Action Grant application that would further a three-phase plan to reopen closed portions of one local steel mill and save another.
Salem High School math students are adding a C, for computers, to the three R's. A new Radio Shack TRS 80 has been installed at the high school. Math Instructor Carl Bevington says advances in microcircuitry make it possible for the machine, which cost about $4,500, to do the work of a computer that would have cost 10 times that 10 years ago.
January 25, 1964: U.S. Sen. Stephen M. Young says that Lt. Col. John Glenn Jr., his opponent for the senatorial nomination in the Ohio Democratic primary, voted for Republican Richard M. Nixon for president in 1960. Young said the original seven astronauts were once asked by a reporter for whom they voted and all replied that it was Nixon.
The first American in medical history to receive a kidney transplanted from a dead person has undergone a second transplant in a Boston hospital. He had lived for a year and nine months on the first transplant.
Mahoning County Prosecutor Clyde M. Osborne promises further racket investigations by future grand juries. Osborne says records seized so far show the numbers racket alone amounts to $4 million in one year.
January 25, 1954: Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan instructs Police Chief Paul Cress to enforce the jaywalking ordinance and to make arrests if necessary of pedestrians who fail to observe the law.
The last of 1,500 streetcars that once banged and clanged through Cleveland makes its final trip, to the scrap heap. A crowd of 10,000 lined up to take rides on the last day of streetcar service in the city.
Youngstown police are holding an East Side man suspected of being one of three men who wounded James Morris, 38, a Yellow Cab driver, during a robbery.
January 25, 1929: Trumbull County commissioners tell officeholders that salaries will have to be cut in 1929 to conform to an appropriations budget of $1.9 million, which is a decrease of $100,000 from the 1928 budget.
The Rev. William S. Kane, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, is appointed dean of Roman Catholic churches in Mahoning and adjoining counties.
Youngstown Finance Director James E. Jones says it will be necessary to add one or more floors to City Hall in the near future, but no money will be available in 1929 for the project.