Today is Sunday, May 2, the 123rd day of 2004. There are 243 days left in the year. On this date in 1863, Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson is accidentally wounded by his own men at

Today is Sunday, May 2, the 123rd day of 2004. There are 243 days left in the year. On this date in 1863, Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson is accidentally wounded by his own men at Chancellorsville, Va.; he dies eight days later.
In 1519, artist Leonardo da Vinci dies at Cloux, France. In 1890, the Oklahoma Territory is organized. In 1932, Jack Benny's first radio show debuts on the NBC Blue Network. In 1945, the Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin, and the Allies announce the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria. In 1957, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, the controversial Republican senator from Wisconsin, dies at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. In 1960, convicted sex offender and best-selling author Caryl Chessman is executed at San Quentin Prison in California.In 1972, after serving 48 years as head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover dies in Washington at age 77.
May 2, 1979: U.S. Steel might not be able to afford the huge proposed steel mill along Lake Erie unless the company's profitability improves, Chairman David Roderick says.
Julius Kravitz, 68-year-old supermarket executive, dies of cardiac arrest after complications from gunshot wounds suffered when he and his wife, Georgina, were kidnapped from their suburban Cleveland home.
LTV Corp. reports first quarter profits of $46 million on sales of $1.08 billion. The results are for the first three-month period that reflects the operations of LTV and Lykes Corp. after their merger.
The Tamarkin Co. completes negotiations to buy two A & amp;P stores, one in the Lincoln Knolls plaza and one in Niles.
May 2, 1964: Mahoning County is doing as much if not more than any other county in Ohio in mental health, Martin A. Janis, director of the Ohio Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction, says in Youngstown during the observance of Mental Health Week.
A 17-year-old Struthers High senior who threw a brick through the window at the home of assistant principal Howard Heldman, will spend his May weekends in detention. He is also ordered to spend one hour after each school day doing chores at the school, and his parents were ordered to make partial restitution.
Thousands of taxpayers from all income levels in Trumbull County have questioned their first half real estate tax bills, most of which show major increases. About 300 file formal complaints after they are dissatisfied with explanations given them by county employees.
Charles Stashee, 24, an employee at the Mahoning Bag and Burlap Co., is injured after being trapped beneath a the 500-pound steel platform of a pallet lift in the company's Pike Street yard.
May 2, 1954: Eileen Kane, a smiling Irish girl, wins The Vindicator spelling bee, becoming the second grand champion in three years to come from St. Patrick School in Youngstown. There were 93 contestants in the bee.
Returning to competition after a year's absence, Dick Linder of Pittsburgh picks up where he left off, winning the stock car feature race at Canfield Speedway before 5,467 spectators. Norm Calhoun of Warren was second, beating Tommy Kane of Youngstown in an exciting duel.
The Association of American Railroads says that atomic locomotives stand a good chance of becoming a reality when nuclear energy finally becomes available to the civilian world in an economical form.
May 2, 1929: Excessive speculation in the stock market is held to blame for unhealthy business conditions in cities like Youngstown by A.E. Adams, president of First National Bank. Adams tells the Exchange Club at the YMCA that the stock market has killed the real estate business and slowed down deposits.
Byron Klein Williams, 18, son of Byron Williams, publisher of the Youngstown Journal, is killed when his automobile crashes into a telephone pole on Youngstown-Sharon Road in Masury.
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