Today is Thursday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2004. There are 337 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2004. There are 337 days left in the year. On this date in 1820, Britain's King George III dies insane at Windsor Castle, ending a reign that had seen both the American and French revolutions.
In 1843, the 25th president of the United States, William McKinley, is born in Niles, Ohio. In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" is first published, in the New York Evening Mirror. In 1850, Henry Clay introduces in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that includes the admission of California into the Union as a free state. In 1861, Kansas becomes the 34th state of the Union. In 1936, the first members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, are named in Cooperstown, N.Y. In 1958, actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward are married. In 1963, the first members of football's Hall of Fame are named in Canton, Ohio. In 1963, poet Robert Frost dies in Boston at age 88. In 1979, President Carter formally welcomes Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House, after the establishment of diplomatic relations.
January 29, 1979: A wildcat strike stemming from recent layoffs shuts down Conrail operations at the huge Lordstown plant of General Motors Corp. and is reported to be spreading to the Haselton Yards in Youngstown.
Pope John Paul II cautions his priests in Latin America to keep the Roman Catholic Church out of politics and seek social justice by spiritual means.
Johnny Unitas, Dick Butkus, Ron Mix and Yale Lary form the 1979 class being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton.
January 29, 1964: The New Wilmington Globe will print its weekly edition in a Grove City shop as a result of an $80,000 fire that gutted the Globe Printing Co. building.
A child's use of matches to hunt for his dog in a crawl space of a North Side home caused a fire that claimed the life of the boy and the dog. The body of Ralph Coudriet, 11, was found in the crawl space in the home at 1023 Ford Ave.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J. Lettau, chancellor of the Diocese of Youngstown, is selected president of the Citizens' Association of Metropolitan Youngstown.
Skindivers from the Mahoning County Sheriff's Department begin a search of Meander Reservoir for abandoned safes and other stolen loot from a Trumbull County burglary ring.
January 29, 1954: Albert E. Chanson, chairman of the Trumbull County Republican Party, is named to a four-year term on the Trumbull County Board of Elections.
Saturday service at Youngstown's main library and six branches will be restored by early March, the library board announces.
Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan asks City Council to authorize hiring 30 additional city employees to do the basic groundwork in the city's capital improvement program.
Unemployment climbs to 2.3 million in January, an increase of 510,000 over December, the Census Bureau reports.
The Youngstown Municipal Railway Co. proposes installation of modern rapid transit service on the right-of-way of the old Youngstown & amp; Southern Railway.
An army of 5,000 women who fanned out over Youngstown for the March of Dimes collected $32,477 in one evening of door-to-door solicitation.
January 29, 1929: Youngstown City Council fails to take more than passing notice of the Chamber of Commerce tax committee's recommendation that an ordinance authorizing the hiring of 13 additional employees in Municipal Court be repealed.
Jerome Hull, superintendent of Mahoning County schools, urges Ohio legislators to repeal the Bing compulsory education law and suggests that educators disregard it. The law requires students to remain in school until the age of 18, but Hull says there are boys between 16 and 18 who want to go to work or learn a trade.
The estate of Mrs. Lucy G. Evans, widow of Mason Evans, prominent Youngstown banker, is appraised in Mahoning Probate Court at $456,962.
America's first complete airplane timetable is published by the American Air Transport Association. The 12-page folder, similar to a railroad timetable, contains the time of arrival and departure of planes in 80 cities. Planes carrying passengers fly about 20,000 miles daily in the nation.