Today is Wednesday, May 5, the 126th day of 2004. There are 240 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Wednesday, May 5, the 126th day of 2004. There are 240 days left in the year. On this date in 1904, Cy Young pitches the American League's first perfect game as the Boston Red Sox defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0.
In 1912, the first issue of the Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda is published. In 1925, John T. Scopes is arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. In 1942, during World War II, Japanese forces land on the Philippine island of Corregidor. In 1942, sales of sugar resume in the United States under a rationing program. In 1955, West Germany becomes a sovereign state. In 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes America's first space traveler as he makes a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. In 1981, Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands dies at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland in his 66th day without food.
May 5, 1979: A second case of polio is found among central Pennsylvania Amish, causing concern among state health officials that the sect's 18,000 members statewide may be at risk.
Despite a Federal Aviation Administration ruling, Youngstown Municipal Airport officials refuse entry of an Everett Aviation refueling truck to the airport, sparking a shouting match between Fred DeLuca, airport manager, and Paul Minnicks, driver of the truck.
Three Vienna Township residents are killed in a two-car, head-on crash in Warren-Sharon Road near Route 193. Dead are Paul R. Baran, 35 and his wife, Patricia Ann, 32, who were in one car, and Robert J. Green, 19, who was driving the other car.
May 5, 1964: Stephen C. Baytos & amp; Associates buys the Palace Hotel at Wick Avenue and East Commerce Street, giving the developer a clear corner for construction of a $3 million mall and plaza that is being planned.
Jerrie Mock, a 38-year-old Columbus housewife who became the first woman to fly around the world alone, receives a Federal Aviation Agency gold medal from President Lyndon Johnson.
The Mahoning Valley Vocational School proposed for the Youngstown Air Force Base at Vienna may be delayed or scrapped unless a lease of the facilities is obtained from the Air Force soon.
May 5, 1954: Voters in Hubbard village and township turn down a 5-mill levy for school operations, with the issue failing by 1.3 percent. The board faces a $93,000 operating debt and plans to curtail operations.
The Mahoning County Democratic organization wins a spectacular victory over the Mahoning County CIO-PAC, piling up a 1,562-vote margin for county Auditor Charles B. Rayburn over the CIO-backed candidate, William Glass of Campbell in the Democratic primary.
Trumbull County authorities are investigating vandalism that has caused more than $1,100 damage to nine partially built homes in Liberty Township. About 50 windows have been shattered in houses in the Goldie Road-Colonial Drive area.
The Mahoning Valley Sanitary District asks permission to boost wholesale water rates by about 5 percent to make up for increased operating costs, says Luther T. Fawcett, chief engineer.
May 5, 1929: Stricter enforcement of the liquor laws and the institution of padlock proceedings against bootlegging establishments has resulted in a jump in the price of liquor in Youngstown and has put at least 12 well-known bootleggers out of business, says William J. Engelhardt, chief of the vice squad.
Andrew Mattison, home in New Castle on furlough from the Army, is being hailed as a hero for his efforts to save one of three children killed in a fire. Mattison suffered burns to his hands and face and carried one child from the inferno, but she was already dead.
Youngstown police find the Buick sedan owned by Carter C. McConnell, missing secretary of McKinley Savings & amp; Loan Co. in Niles, in the Ohio Garage in Commerce Street, near Chestnut. McConnell, charged with misappropriating $50,000 in company funds, has been missing for two weeks.