Today is Wednesday, July 28, the 210th day of 2004. There are 156 days left in the year. On this

Today is Wednesday, July 28, the 210th day of 2004. There are 156 days left in the year. On this date in 1945, a U.S. Army bomber crashes into the 79th floor of New York's Empire State Building, killing 14 people.
In 1540, King Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, is executed, the same day Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. In 1750, composer Johann Sebastian Bach dies in Leipzig, Germany. In 1821, Peru declares its independence from Spain. In 1868, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing due process of law, is declared in effect. In 1896, the city of Miami, Fla., is incorporated.
July 28, 1979: The J.V. McNicholas Transportation Co., a locally based trucking firm for 75 years, will move its corporate headquarters from West Federal Street to the northwest side of the city following construction of a $4.1 million facility. The firm is expected to receive $1.1 million in federal grants.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development approves a $600,000 grant for the expansion and renovation of Goodwill Industries' building on Belmont Avenue.
ICX Aviation Inc. may go to Buffalo, N.Y., instead of the Youngstown district with its plant to assemble an Americanized version of the Soviet-designed YAK-40 jet airliner. The Buffalo Evening News reports that ICX will take over the Bell Aerospace plant in that city and employ 5,000 persons within three years.
July 28, 1964: The 13th day of a heat wave is expected to bring more mid-90s weather to the Youngstown district. Youngstown Parks Superintendent Edward Finamore reports that 71,275 bathers have been admitted to the city's six swimming pools since the heat wave began, including 7,133 in one day.
U.S. Steel Corp.'s American Bridge Division is given a contract by General Motors Corp. for structural steel for the new Chevrolet assembly plant at Lordstown. American Bridge will supply and erect 12,000 tons of prefabricated structural steel for the 1.5 million square foot plant.
Mike George, national executive director of Our Lady of Lebanon Shrine Project Inc., announces that a $1 million shrine will be built on a 80-acre site on N. Lipkey Road, about two miles north of Rt. 18 in North Jackson.
July 28, 1954: Girard Mayor Joseph Catone asks that Girard be permitted to join the Mahoning Valley Sanitary District, in a move to assure the city an adequate water supply.
The 19-year-old "Dynamite Kid," still at large somewhere on the East Side, is assured by Youngstown Police Chief Paul Cress that he will be allowed to return to his home and then surrender to police without fear of being harmed by police. "The Kid" remains at large despite exchanging 20 shots with police and an intensive manhunt in the McKelvey Lake area.
The Boardman Board of Education is studying bids on a space-saving type of school construction for its new elementary school on Stadium Drive, just south of the Center School. The design uses outside corridors to save space and will cost an estimated $13 per square foot to build, compared to $15 a square foot for the West Boulevard School.
July 28, 1929: The former Central Hotel at 25 Spring Common, the first place to be padlocked in the spring crackdown on vice by Sheriff Adam Stone, has been reopened for use by the City Rescue Mission.
The body of William D. Morris, 50, Youngstown insurance man, is found at a log cabin on Pumpkin Vine Road near Hubbard. He had been shot three times.
Five Youngstown men are among the 136 applicants who passed the state dental examination. They are David V. Bender, Thomas L. Hagan, Philip B. Hodes, Boyd E. Robinson and Morris Solomon.