Today is Thursday, July 29, the 211th day of 2004. There are 155 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, July 29, the 211th day of 2004. There are 155 days left in the year. On this date in 1981, Britain's Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. (The couple divorce in 1996.)
In 1030, the patron saint of Norway, King Olaf II, is killed in battle. In 1588, the English soundly defeat the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Gravelines. In 1890, artist Vincent van Gogh dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France. In 1900, Italian King Humbert I is assassinated by an anarchist; he is succeeded by his son, Victor Emmanuel III. In 1914, transcontinental telephone service begins with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco. In 1948, Britain's King George VI opens the Olympic Games in London. In 1958, President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA. In 1967, fire sweeps the USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin, killing 134 servicemen. In 1975, Gerald Ford becomes the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland as he pays tribute to the victims.
July 29, 1979: While many Youngstown area companies have been reporting record or near-record sales and earnings, there are ominous signs for energy-intense operations, such as steel, trucking and railroads, as energy costs continue to rise, with no relief in sight, writes Business Editor George Reiss.
A year after the former Rockwell International Corp.'s bumper plant in Newton Falls closed down, more than two thirds of the plant's 300,000 square feet are in use by a variety of small manufacturers employing more than 100 people, total.
The Daniel Construction Co. of Greenville, S.C., begins work on expansion of the General Motors Assembly Division plant in Lordstown. The estimated cost of the additions is $150 million, a figure GM won't confirm.
July 29, 1964: A gasoline price war that has smoldered for more than a year bursts into flames, with prices dropping by as much as 7 cents. In Youngstown, prices south of the Mahoning River are 31.9 cents per gallon for regular, while north of Gypsy Lane, prices drop to 26.9. In various locations, prices as low as 23.9 have been seen.
Jacqueline Kennedy buys a 15-room apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park for $200,000.
A downpour dumps 3 inches of rain on Girard, knocking out power and phone lines, flooding the city's new sewage treatment plant and turning streets into rivers.
Eight head of cattle are killed by lightning on two Lordstown Township farms during a thunderstorm.
July 29, 1954: The executive committee of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce recommends that the Route 7 interchange on the Ohio Turnpike be titled, simply, Youngstown. Various names have been suggested for the interchange.
Eugene G. Grace, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp., confirms that his company is negotiating a proposed merger with Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Co.
Rep. Oliver P. Bolton, R-Ohio, urges the Defense Department to put a $13 million Air Reserve base that no one in Northeastern Ohio seems to want, inside the Ravenna Arsenal.
July 29, 1929: Youngstown Police Chief Paul Lyden promises better protection for the outlying districts of the city after residents of Brownlee Woods complain about boys in the district destroying property.
Sen. Cutting, Republican from New Mexico, says action by the customs bureau in barring from entry into the United States an English translation of the German book, "All Quiet on the Western Front," shows "the danger and folly of giving customs officers the right to dictate what the American people may or may not read."
Mahoning County Commissioner Albert Cooper leads a delegation of representatives from Mahoning, Columbiana, Trumbull and Ashtabula counties to Columbus, where they will ask the state highway director for a hearing on the need to build a road between the Ohio River and Lake Erie. The delegation is armed with petitions signed by 300,000 persons.