Today is Friday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2004. There are 336 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2004. There are 336 days left in the year. On this date in 1968, during the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive begins as Communist forces launch surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.
In 1882, the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is born in Hyde Park, N.Y. In 1933, Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany. In 1933, the first episode of the "Lone Ranger" radio program is broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit. In 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered by a Hindu extremist. In 1962, two members of the "Flying Wallendas" high-wire act are killed when their seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit. In 1964, the United States launches Ranger VI, an unmanned spacecraft carrying television cameras that is to crash-land on the moon. In 1972, 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers are shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what becomes known as "Bloody Sunday." In 1979, the civilian government of Iran announces it has decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who'd been living in exile in France, to return.
January 30, 1979: A 16-year-old girl opens fire on a California school yard, killing two adults and wounding nine children and a policeman. After surrendering, she tells police she "did it for the fun of it." One of the men killed was Mike Suchar, 56, a native of Campbell who had lived in Kinsman for many years before moving to California. He was a custodian at the school.
For the fourth time in five months, the wholesale price of milk is increasing. The increase from $12.58 per hundredweight to $13.05 is expected to translate to a hike of two cents to three cents per half-gallon at the supermarket.
Carolyn Lee Houlihan, 18, an honor roll senior at Ursuline High School in Youngstown is crowned Miss Ohio-USA during a pageant at the Fort Steuben Mall in Steubenville. She will represent the state at the Miss USA pageant in Biloxi, Miss.
January 30, 1964: Norma Jenkins of New Castle, who was missing in the strife torn-Congo for a week, turns up at the village of Iwungu with several other foreign missionaries, and is airlifted to safety.
The Youngstown Board of Control awards contracts to architects to design two city jobs, a $123,000 remodeling of city hall and the design of T-hangars at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.
President Johnson asks Congress to approve machinery that would permit double-pay for overtime in some industries as a way of combating unemployment.
January 30, 1954: Youngstown has the rosiest prospects in its history for getting many new plants that will furnish additional jobs and more markets for Youngstown steel, says William G. Lyden, retiring president of the Greater Youngstown Area Foundation. The proximity of the new Ohio Turnpike is seen as a particular advantage.
The heirs of six Youngstown residents who lost their lives aboard the S.S. Noronic when it caught fire while docked in Toronto in 1949 are entitled to split $190,000 , according to a report of an admiralty commissioner.
U.S. Rep John M. Vorys of Columbus tells 500 people at the annual Mahoning Valley McKinley Club dinner in Niles that the Eisenhower administration registered a successful first year in office by steering a course "up the middle road of progress."
January 30, 1929: H.F. Scott McBride, head of the Anti-Saloon League, criticizes Rep. Cooper of Youngstown for his failure to support the president's request for $24 million in additional funds to enforce prohibition.
After a conference between Finance Director James E. Jones and James Watson, owner of 60 acres adjacent to Lansdowne Field, it appears that the city will not option or buy the property in 1929 because the city does not have the $40,000 that Watson is seeking.
The first step toward the organization of a civic music association in Youngstown is taken when 50 representatives of local music clubs and fraternities meet in the YMCA.